Pine Needle Essential Oil

Bring the freshness of the forest into your home, along with some amazing health benefits! Our Pine Needle Essential Oil hails from the forests of Austria, and has a fresh, forest-like aroma.  It is steam distilled from the needles and twigs of the pine tree.

Pine Needle contains antimicrobial, antiseptic, and antiviral properties. It is also detoxifying. It is excellent for cleansing the home of bacteria, helping to purify the air, treating muscle aches and pains and energising and lifting your mood and focus.

Cosmetically, the antiseptic and antimicrobial properties of Pine Essential Oil are known to help soothe skin conditions such as inflammation, acne, eczema, and psoriasis. It is helpful in treating minor skin infections, cuts and insect bites.  It can make an interesting face oil when diluted with a carrier oil. It's anti-inflammatory compounds help reduce swelling to promote faster healing.

Some benefits of Pine Needle Essential Oil:

• Soothes skin conditions such as acne, eczema and psoriasis (use diluted at 1% or according to your recipe)
• Helps ease respiratory congestion and reduce coughing. Use as a steam inhalation or in a diffuser
• Helps reduce infection caused by cuts, insect bites etc
• Lifts mood, and helps increase mental focus
• Helps cleanse air of air-borne bacteria

Suggested Uses:

• Use as a steam inhalation
• Use in diffuser
• In balms for cuts and insect bites
• As an insect repellent
• In skin reparations for troubled skin conditions (diluted, as above)
• Makes wonderful seasonal inspired soaps and candles for Christmas

Product Information

Inci: Pinus Sylvestris

Extraction Method: Steam Distillation

Part of Plant: Leaves and Twigs

Family:  Pinaceae

Colour: Colourless to Pale Yellow

Scent: Fresh and forest-like

Note: Top

Oils to Blend With: Camphoraceous, citrus, earthy, herby, floral, minty, spicy and woodsy oils