- 100% pure Ginger essential oil.
- Botanical Name: Zingiber officinale
- Common Method of Extraction: Steam Distilled
- Part Typically Used: Root
- Color: Light Yellow
- Consistency: Thin
- Perfumery Note: Middle/Base
- Strength of Initial Aroma: Medium – Strong
- Aromatic Description: Warm, spicy, earthy, woody.
- Ginger Oil Uses: Aching muscles, arthritis, nausea, poor circulation. [Julia Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: 1995), 60-64.]
- Major Constituents of Chinese Ginger Essential Oil: Zingiberene ar-Curcumene B-Sesquiphellandrene B-Bisabolene Camphene B-Phellandrene Borneol 1,8-Cineole a-Pinene B-Elemene
Safety Information: Tisserand and Young do not indicate any known hazards for Ginger Oil. Some sources do indicate that Ginger Oil is phototoxic. However, Tisserand and Young state that “Low-level phototoxic effects reported for ginger oil are not considered significant (Opdyke 1974 p. 910-902).” 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), 295.]