- 100% pure Cypress essential oil.
- Botanical Name: Cupressus sempervirens
- Common Method of Extraction: Steam Distilled
- Part Typically Used: Needles
- Color: Pale Yellow
- Consistency: Thin
- Perfumery Note: Middle
- Strength of Initial Aroma: Medium
- Aromatic Description: Fresh, herbaceous, slightly woody, evergreen aroma
- Cypress Oil Uses: Excessive perspiration, hemorrhoids, menorrhagia, oily skin, rheumatism, vericse veins. [Julia Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: Element, 1995), 57-65.]
- Major Constituents: a-Pinene delta-3-Carene Cedrol a-Terpinyl acetate Terpinolene (+)-Limonene
Safety Information: Tisserand and Young do not indicate any known hazards for Cypress Oil. However, they precaution to avoid use of the oil topically if it has oxidized as skin sensitization is more likely. 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), 265.]