What is Palo Santo Essential Oil?

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

The essential oil of Palo Santo (Bursera graveolens) is obtained through steam distillation. The Palo Santo tree is family of Frankincense and Myrrh and is found in South America.

Benefits

Feeling of coming home

The scent of Palo Santo Essential Oil takes away your worries, relaxes and reconnects you with yourself. The aroma works grounding and brings you back to the now, back to yourself. It's a wonderful oil to diffuse during a yoga session or meditation, to help you focus and stay present with everything that presents itself.

Balance

The relaxing effect of the oil calms your emotions and connects you with your spiritual side. You realize that you never stand alone, allowing you to experience peace with what is. The aroma gives negative emotions and feelings a place, creating more space for positivity and contentment.

How do you use it?

Mix Palo Santo Essential Oil with a carrier oil to use on the skin or diffuse in an aroma diffuser.

In the diffuser

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

What makes it so special?

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