Palo Santo Essential Oil (Holy Wood)

What is Palo Santo Essential Oil?

The warm, slightly peppery aroma of Palo Santo Essential Oil brings you back to yourself. The scent relaxes and stabilizes your emotions, which makes the oil ideal for a meditation or yoga session.

Palo Santo essential oil (Bursera graveolens) is extracted by steam distillation. The Palo Santo tree is related to Frankincense en Mirre and is found in South America.

Benefits

Feeling of coming home

The scent of Palo Santo Essential Oil takes away your worries, relaxes and brings you back in touch with yourself. The aroma has a grounding effect and brings you back to the now, back to yourself. It's a wonderful oil to vape during a yoga session or meditation, to help you focus and stay present to whatever comes up.

Balance

The relaxing effect of the oil calms your emotions and brings you into contact with your spiritual side. You realize that you are never alone, so you experience peace with what is. The aroma gives negative emotions and feelings a place, creating more room for positivity and satisfaction.

How do you use it?

Mix Palo Santo Essential Oil with a carrier oil to use on the skin or evaporate in a aromaverdamper.

In the diffuser

Combine 3 drops of Palo Santo Essential Oil with 3 drops Rosemary Essential Oil and 3 drops Peppermint Essential Oil in a aromaverdamper for a relaxed atmosphere in the room.

What is so special about it?

Palo Santo grows in South America and is traditionally used by the Incas to purify the body, mind and spirit. The wood was seen as sacred and in Spanish Palo Santo means 'holy wood'.