10ml Lime Essential Oil

• 10ml Lime Essential Oil
• Botanical Name: Citrus aurantifolia
• Common Method of Extraction: Cold Pressed/Expressed
• Part Typically Used: Citrus Rind (Peel)
• Colour: Light Green With a Hint of Orange/Yellow
• Consistency: Thin
• Perfumery Note: Top
• Strength of Initial Aroma: Medium
• Aromatic Description: Fresh, citrusy, sweet, slightly tart
• Lime Oil Uses: Acne, asthma, chilblains, colds, dull skin, flu, varicose veins. [Julia Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: 1995), 56-66.]
• Major Constituents: a-Pinene B-Pinene Sabinene Myrcene Limonene y-Terpinene Terpinolene Octanal Nonanal Tetradecanal Pentadecanal Trans-a-bergaptene Caryophyllene B-bisabolene Geranial Neryl acetate Geranyl acetate a-Terpineo Linalool

Safety Information: Cold pressed Lime Essential Oil is phototoxic. Steam distilled Lime Oil is not phototoxic. Tisserand and Young recommend a dermal maximum of 0.7% for the cold pressed oil to avoid the risk of a phototoxic reaction. They precaution to avoid topical use of Lime Oil, regardless of method of distillation, 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), 87, 336-338.]