The Amazing Qualities of Organic Peppermint Essential Oil
Our Organic Peppermint essential oil has cooling, invigorating, clearing, refreshing and antiseptic properties. It is refreshing to the nasal passages when used as an inhalant. Peppermint essential oil is mildly antiseptic and helps purify the skin. It is useful in maintaining healthy digestion.
Our Organic Peppermint essential oil is also a very effective appetite suppressant, controlling cravings for sugar and other foods, and so helps curb overeating. A clinical study showed that inhaling peppermint oil every 2 hours is highly effective in reducing appetite and decreasing food cravings.
It has a fresh, bright and minty aroma. It originates from India and is extracted by steam distillation from the flowering herbs.
Energy Boost ready for exercise?
Add a little peppermint essential oil to your exercise routine is a MUST. Add 6 drops to our rollerball and pop on behind my ears. On the days Richie uses for cycling, he notices he has more stamina, breathes better and is much happier while out on the road.
- Improves Motivation: A study in the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology found that participants who smelled peppermint oil could do one more pushup and cut two seconds off their quarter-mile dash pace, suggesting improved motivation.
- Decreases Fatigue: College athletes who smelled peppermint oil while on a treadmill reported less fatigue, frustration, and felt they performed better.
- Increases Performance: Athletes using peppermint oil showed a 50% increase in effort, 20% more power, and 25% longer time to exhaustion
- May Benefit Lung Health: Athletes who drank water with peppermint oil for 10 days showed improved performance, likely due to relaxed bronchial muscles, increased ventilation and brain oxygen, and reduced blood lactate levels.
Peppermint Essential Oil Benefits and Uses
- Anxiety apply topically roller ball
- Apathy
- Appetite diffuse live calm
- Asthma diffuse live calm
- Burping - excessive
- Colic
- Cough diffuse live calm
- Congestion diffuse live calm
- Constipation body oil with peppermint
- Cramps
- Dermatitis face oil with peppermint
- Digestion body oil with peppermint diffuse live calm
- Exhaustion diffuse live calm
- Flu compress
- Flatulence diffuse live calm
- Focus diffuse live calm
- Fatigue diffuse live calm
- Headache diffuse or apply topically roller ball with Lemon, Peppermint and Lavender to help ease head tension
- Hot Flushes apply topically roller ball with Lavender, Peppermint and Geranium Menopause Support
- Leg Cramps epsom salt bath with a few drops peppermint in carrier oil
- Nausea inhale from the bottle
- Negativity diffuse live calm
- IBS - cramps
- Itchy Skin body oil with peppermint
- Pain Relief compress with two drops peppermint
- Scabies
- Sinusitis steam treatment live calm
- Shock diffuse live calm
- Study - diffuse live calm exams? on a keyring in the exam
- Tiredness diffuse live calm
- Tooth care, ache
- Travel Sickness apply topically roller ball with Lemon, Peppermint and Lavender to help ease
- Vertigo apply topically to acupressure points (temples, back of neck) roller ball with Lemon, Peppermint and Lavender to help ease
Botanical Name: Peppermint, Metha Piperita Oil
Source: India
Aroma: A refreshing aroma
Method of Extraction: Steam Distilled
BLENDING NOTE: Base
MAIN BENEFIT: Its cooling properties
USEFULNESS: A must see list above! Also a Spider repellent! Tip pop a few drops in water and spray near windows and door frames to keep them out!
PERFUME GROUP: Spicy
We love our Organic Peppermint essential oil it has helped me to recover from migraine with Aura and is helping me currently with being perimenopausal - cooling those hot flushes and great to help my anxiety too! That's why it is in a few of our oil sets as a must have!
- Lavender, Peppermint and Geranium Menopause Support
- Lemon, Peppermint and Lavender to help ease head tension
- Lemon, Peppermint and Eucalyptus live calm
Details Menopause journey and support on the blog here and my migraine journey here. I hope this information and tools can help support you too. Healthy Wishes Becky x
There are so many ways to use Peppermint essential oil as part of your routine. Tips & Tricks on how to use:
- Diffuser: Add 5-8 drops to 100ml cool water in your diffuser. Or use with other BCALM organic pure essential oils, to blend some magic depending on your mood! A few drops of Lemon, Peppermint, and tea tree is an amazing blend to help live calm or Lemon, Peppermint and Lavender to help ease head tension or hormone support with Lavender, Peppermint and Geranium Menopause Support
- Pillow talk: No drops in the evening unless you're going out out! Peppermint is a stimulant, keep to the morning!
- Quick fix: A few deep inhalations from the bottle can help when you are at work, in the car or anytime you need a quick energy boost. our diffuser keyring is a great option
- Shower: Add 2-3 drops to the corner of the shower and enjoy the benefits of steam inhalation.
- Bath: Add 2-3 drops of Peppermint in a dispersant such as oil, to the bath to create a refreshing cooling atmosphere while nourishing your skin.
- Topically: Mix 15 drops with 5ml carrier oil (sweet almond recommended) In our rollerball and apply to wrists, chest or back of the neck.
- Hand or foot bath: Add 2 drops to a bowl of water.
- Compress: Add 2 drops to a bowl of water. For treating inflammation or to cool down use cold to room temperature water. For aching tight muscles use warm to hot water. Agitate a face cloth in the water, wring out excess moisture and apply cloth to the affected area. Repeat two or three times as the compress cools down or warms up.
- Steam Treatment: Add 2 drops of essential oil to a bowl of steaming hot water. Place your face close to the bowl and cover the back of your head and bowl with a towel to trap the aromatic vapours. Caution due to risk of burns or scalding and keep eyes covered during treatment.
Peppermint Essential Oil: blends well with lavender, lemon, Geranium and eucalyptus.
Let us know if you have any other tips and tricks? We would love to hear from you.
There are some family members and our pets that may need oils to be more diluted.
Babies and young children, pregnant and breast-feeding mothers, the frail and the elderly. Topical applications need to be at much lower dilutions, as low a 1% (1 drop in 10ml of carrier oil) and not all essential oils are recommended. This oil can be used safely.
Please see our faq here and if you unsure always take advise from a clinical aromatherapist for best practise.
Sending healthy wishes 💚
Safety: not suitable for children under 3 years old. Safe use in pregnancy and breastfeeding. FAQ support
Source: Julia Lawless, The Encyclopedia of Essential Oils (Updated Edition) (London: Harper Thorsons, 2014), 139-140.
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