10ml Black Pepper Essential Oil

• 100% pure Black Pepper essential oil.
• Botanical Name: Piper nigrum
• Common Method of Extraction: Steam Distilled
• Part Typically Used: Peppercorns
• Colour: Clear
• Consistency: Thin
• Perfumery Note: Middle
• Strength of Initial Aroma: Medium
• Aromatic Description: Crisp, fresh, peppercorn aroma.
• Black Pepper Oil Uses: Aching muscles, arthritis, chilblains, constipation, muscle cramps, poor circulation, sluggish digestion. [Julia Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: 1995), 56-64.]
• Major Constituents: Limonene Pinene Myrcene Phellandrene Beta-caryophyllene B-bisabolene Sabinene Linalol Pinocarveol a-Terpineol Camphene a-Terpenene [Shirley Price, The Aromatherapy Work (Hammersmith, London: Thorsons, 1993), 54-5.]

Safety Information: Tisserand and Young do not indicate any special precautions when using Black Pepper Oil. However, they precaution to avoid use of the oil if it has oxidized. Reading Tisserand and Young’s full profile is recommended. [Robert Tisserand and Rodney Young, Essential Oil Safety (Second Edition. United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2014), 384-385.]