Essential Oils – Chagrin Valley Soap & Salve

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Natural Organic Essential Oil Skin Care Aromatherapy

Powerfully fragrant and concentrated, essential oils are pure natural aromatic extracts from a variety of aromatic plant materials.

Essential oils have an immediate impact on our sense of smell. Only natural botanical essential oils can cause various neurochemicals to be released in the brain which can affect the body, mind, and spirit.

We chose essential oils for their skincare benefits and for the aromatherapy they offer.

Although lab synthesized fragrances or "nature identical" oils are available at a much lower cost and mimic natural plant aromas, they will not offer the therapeutic benefits that essential oils offer. We give you the real thing.

Our descriptions of essential oils are for EXTERNAL use only.

Pregnancy & Children: We do not provide information on the safety of essential oils during Pregnancy or for use in Children because the available information is very ambiguous and often contradictory. If you’re interested in using essential oils during pregnancy or with young children please do your own research and consult your doctor, midwife, or health care professional before use.

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Allspice Essential Oil

Allspice Essential Oil

Allspice Essential Oil, Pimenta officinalis, has a high eugenol content, which is why its aroma resembles a blend of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and black pepper. Hence the name "allspice." It is steam distilled from the unripe berries of a fragrant evergreen tree. The berries, dried in the sun, resemble peppercorns....

Organic Anise Essential Oil

Organic Anise Essential Oil

Anise Seed essential oil, Pimpinella anisum, has a warm, sweet aroma reminiscent of Licorice or Fennel. Most black licorice candy sold in the US is flavored with anise, not licorice root. Although the scent is similar to both fennel and star anise none of the licorice-scented plants are related. Anise...

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Organic Basil Essential Oil

Organic Basil Essential Oil

Sweet Basil, Ocimum basilicum, has a warm, spicy, herbal aroma with an anise-like scent. The essential oil is steam-distilled from the leaves and flowers of the herb. Basil is antimicrobial, shares many skincare uses with rosemary essential oil, and its antiseptic properties have been valued in Far Eastern medicine for...

Organic Bay Laurel Essential Oil

Organic Bay Laurel Essential Oil

Bay Laurel, Laurus nobilis, also known as sweet bay, is an evergreen tree or small tree shrub that is part of the laurel family and is native to the Mediterranean. The bay laurel leaf is the "bay leaf" that is used in cooking. According to Greek mythology, the nymph Daphne...

Bay, West Indian Essential Oil

West Indian Bay Essential Oil

Bay, West Indian, Pimenta racemosa, has a sweet, fresh, spicy aroma. Not to be confused with Bay Laurel, this essential oil is steam distilled from the leaves of the West Indian Bay tree (also known as the Bayberry or Bay Rum Tree). Although it is a common ingredient in men's...

Organic Bergamot Essential Oil

Organic Bergamot Essential Oil

The scent of Bergamot essential oil is fresh with hints of spice, floral, and citrus. It helps soothe dry, irritated skin. It balances skin oil production and helps soothe irritated skin making it an excellent choice for relieving symptoms of eczema and psoriasis. In hair care, it helps regulate excessive oiliness...

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Caraway Seed Essential Oil

Caraway Seed Essential Oil

Caraway Seeds, Carum carvi, come from a plant native to western Asia, Europe, and North Africa. It is a biennial plant which means that it completes its life cycle over a two-year period and only bears fruit (what we call the seeds) in the second year. Caraway seeds are harvested...

Carrot Seed Essential Oil

Carrot Seed Essential Oil

Carrot Seed essential oil, Daucus carota, oil is steam distilled from the dried seeds of the wild carrot plant, also known as Queen Anne's lace. For some, the aroma is quite odd. It is very earthy, a bit nutty, and spicy and has strong herbaceous musky tones. It is rich...

Organic Cassia Essential Oil

Organic Cassia Essential Oil

Cassia, Cinnamomum cassia, is steam distilled from the bark of the Cinnamomum cassia tree, native to China and Indonesia. Cassia and "true cinnamon" share the same botanical family. While they both have a spicy, warm aroma, cassia is sweeter and less pungent than cinnamon. Most of the "cinnamon sticks" and...

Organic Cedarwood Essential Oil

Organic Cedarwood Essential Oil

Cedarwood essential oil can help to clear skin problems like eczema, rashes, and blemishes. It normalizes both dry and oily skin and hair. In hair care products, it helps minimize dandruff and hair loss by stimulating hair follicles. Aromatherapy: The warm, woody scent of Cedarwood promotes a relaxing environment.

Organic Cinnamon Essential Oil

Organic Cinnamon Essential Oil

Cinnamon, Cinnamomum verum (also called Cinnamomum zeylanicum), an essential oil with a warm, spicy, sweet, scent, is also known as "true cinnamon" or "Ceylon cinnamon." It has been used for centuries. It was the most sought-after spice of the 15th and 16th centuries--at one time it was more valuable than...

Citronella Grass Essential Oil

Organic Citronella Essential Oil

Citronella, Cymbopogon winterianus, oil is steam distilled from the leaves of a grass plant that resembles and is closely related to lemongrass. There are actually two types of citronella plants from which the oil can be extracted, Cymbopogon winterianus, also called Java citronella which is a bit sweeter and more...

Organic Clary Sage Essential Oil

Organic Clary Sage Essential Oil

The natural soothing qualities of Clary Sage help reduce skin inflammation and heal rashes. It also helps regulate and balance the production of natural skin oils, making it a great oil for both oily and dry skin. Aromatherapy: Clary sage helps relieve stress, anxiety, irritability, and depression and induces feelings of relaxation,...

Organic Clove Bud Essential Oil

Organic Clove Bud Essential Oil

Clove Bud, Syzgium aromaticum, oil is produced by steam distilling the dried flower buds from the clove tree. Other parts of the tree, such as the stem and leaves, may also be used. The antimicrobial, antifungal, antiviral, and antiseptic properties of clove oil make it a popular home remedy for...

Organic Cypress Essential Oil

Organic Cypress Essential Oil

Cypress essential oil is an astringent useful for oily and blemished skin. Its ability to enhance circulation can help brighten dull complexions. In hair care, cypress oil is used to reduce oiliness in the scalp and is good for dandruff. Aromatherapy: The fresh warm, earthy, scent induces a calming and relaxing effect...

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Organic Eucalyptus Essential Oil

Organic Eucalyptus Essential Oil

Eucalyptus essential oil is used for many ailments, such as headaches, sinus congestion, and body aches and pains. In hair care, eucalyptus refreshes and stimulates the scalp and helps with dandruff. Aromatherapy: The fresh, camphoraceous scent helps renew a tired and sagging spirit, decrease exhaustion and mental fatigue, and ease stuffiness from...

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Organic Fennel Essential Oil

Organic Fennel Essential Oil

Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare, is an ancient herb, believed to convey longevity, strength, and courage. Native to southern Europe, particularly Greece, and Italy, the essential oil is steam distilled from the crushed seeds of the herb. Fennel, a mild astringent, helps soothe, cleanse, and tone facial skin. It works in harmony...

Organic Fir Needle Essential Oil

Organic Fir Needle Essential Oil

Fir Needle essential oil is steam distilled from the leaves and twigs of a variety of fir trees in the genus Abies. Abies sibirica, Siberian Fir Needle, and Abies balsamea, Canadian Fir needle are the two types that we use. Although it comes from the same family as pine Pinaceae,...

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Organic Geranium Essential Oil

Organic Geranium Essential Oil

Geranium essential oil has been used in the treatment of skin conditions due to its mild, soothing, and healing effects. It restores a balance between oily and dry skin and scalp, is good for all skin types, and a great hair care ingredient. Aromatherapy: the sweet floral relaxing aroma helps reduce feelings...

Organic Ginger Essential Oil

Organic Ginger Essential Oil

Ginger, Zingebar officinale, is steam distilled from the flowering perennial that belongs to the same plant family as Turmeric and Cardamom. The part of the plant that is used is called the rhizome which is an underground stem. Used for thousands of years by the Chinese and Indian cultures to...

Organic Grapefruit Essential Oil

Organic Grapefruit Essential Oil

Grapefruit essential oil is used as an astringent for oily skin, to refresh and energize the body, and as an airborne disinfectant. In hair care, citrus oils refresh, invigorate, and cleanse the scalp. Aromatherapy: The fresh aroma clears the mind, promotes positive energy, and helps relieve moodiness and mental and physical tiredness.

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Organic Juniper Berry Essential Oil

Organic Juniper Berry Essential Oil

Juniper Berry essential oil tones the skin and is helpful for acne and oily skin. It is used in massage oils to ease joint and muscle pain. Steam inhalation may relieve congestion. In hair care, juniper balances oil production and stimulates the scalp. Aromatherapy: The scent has a calming and grounding effect, lifts the...

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Organic Lavender Essential Oil

Organic Lavender Essential Oil

Lavender essential oil, probably the most versatile of all essential oils, tones the skin and is useful for acne, oily skin, burns, eczema, and psoriasis. In hair care, lavender helps balance oily or dry hair and scalp, soothes an irritated scalp and stimulates the hair follicles. Aromatherapy: Its calming properties help balance emotions,...

Organic Lemon Essential Oil

Organic Lemon Essential Oil

Citrus Essential Oils like Lemon, Citrus limon, Lime, Grapefruit, Tangerine, and Sweet Orange have anti-bacterial and astringent properties. Great skin tonics, citrus oils, stimulate microcirculation, balance skin oil production, and support tissue regeneration. Lemon essential oil can help give your complexion a refreshed, healthy-looking glow which is great for dull...

Organic Lemon Eucalyptus Essential Oil

Organic Lemon Eucalyptus Essential Oil

Lemon Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus citriodora (aka Corymbia citriodora), oil is steam distilled from the leaves and twigs of the lemon-scented Eucalyptus citriodora tree. Although originally from Australia, the trees grow in Guatemala, Colombia, Egypt, South Africa, India, and China. Both Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine have known the medicinal importance of lemon...

Organic Lemongrass Essential Oil

Organic Lemongrass Essential Oil

Lemongrass essential oil has soothing and astringent properties that make it useful for acne, blemishes, and other skin inflammations. The fresh scent and antibacterial properties make it a great addition to any natural deodorant. In hair care, lemongrass oil increases body, adds luster to dull hair, and may also help decrease...

Organic Lime Essential Oil

Organic Lime Essential Oil

Great skin tonics, citrus essential oils like Lime, stimulate the microcirculation, balance skin oil production, and are wonderful for dull skin. In hair care, they refresh, invigorate, and cleanse the scalp. Aromatherapy: Citrus oils, in general, are believed to stimulate positive energy and thus cause feelings of joy and happiness.

Organic Litsea Cubeba Essential Oil

Organic Litsea Cubeba Essential Oil

Litsea essential oil has gentle astringent properties that balance sebum production which works wonders for acne-prone skin or oily skin or hair. Used in a massage oil it can help increase circulation to ease pain and inflammation. Aromatherapy: The refreshing, uplifting, scent will liven up your day, promote relaxation, help clear your...

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Organic Myrtle Essential Oil

Organic Myrtle Essential Oil

Myrtle essential oil, Myrtus communis, is steam distilled from the leaves and twigs and sometimes flowers of a small fragrant evergreen shrub with white star-shaped flowers native to the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Myrtle, traditionally associated with Aphrodite, was considered an aphrodisiac and a symbol of love in ancient...

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Organic Nutmeg Essential Oil

Organic Nutmeg Essential Oil

Nutmeg, Myristica fragrans, grows on an evergreen tree originally native to the Spice Islands, a small group of islands to the northeast of Indonesia. Nutmeg essential oil is steam distilled from the sun-dried seeds of the tree. The fruit of this tree has a single seed, which makes it a...

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Organic Orange Essential Oil

Organic Orange Essential Oil

Sweet Orange essential oil helps stimulate microcirculation to improve the appearance of dull skin. It balances skin oil production to help oily hair and acne-prone skin. Aromatherapy: The uplifting scent brightens and warms your mood, calms, encourages, clears the head, increases mental alertness, improves memory, and reduces stress and headaches.

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Organic Palmarosa Essential Oil

Organic Palmarosa Essential Oil

Palmarosa essential oil, Cymbopogon martini, also known as Indian Geranium Oil, is steam distilled from a tall, wild grass native to India. Although palmarosa is not part of the rose family (it is actually a part of the lemongrass family), it contains a high percentage of geraniol, which is one...

Organic Patchouli Essential Oil

Organic Patchouli Essential Oil

Patchouli essential oil, Pogostemon cablin, is steam distilled from the large, aromatic velvety leaves of a bushy herb. A member of the mint family, patchouli grows wild in India. Its exotic, woodsy, musky, earthy scent became the characteristic scent of the cultural revolution that will take the children of the 1960s and...

Organic Peppermint Essential Oil

Organic Peppermint Essential Oil

Peppermint essential oil has both cooling and warming sensations which may help ease headaches, muscle aches, and inflammation. In hair care, it refreshes and promotes blood circulation which stimulates growth. Aromatherapy: The scent helps refresh the senses, and relieve mental fatigue, anxiety, and depression. It is also excellent for stuffy heads, motion sickness, headaches, and nausea.

Organic Pine Needle Essential Oil

Organic Pine Needle Essential Oil

When added to a massaged oil, Pine Needle essential oil promotes circulation, helps relieve muscle fatigue, soothes sore muscles, and helps ease inflamed joints. Pine essential oil also helps soothe itchy skin, which may be helpful for eczema or other skin irritations. Aromatherapy: It has warm revitalizing properties that promote feelings of...

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Organic Rosemary Essential Oil

Organic Rosemary Essential Oil

Rosemary essential oil balances oily or problem skin, and helps in the treatment of comedones and acne. It is good for eczema, relieves muscle aches, and has antiseptic, antibacterial, and antiviral properties. In hair care, rosemary is a good tonic for thinning hair and dandruff. Aromatherapy: The chemical makeup of Rosemary...

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Organic Sage Essential Oil

Organic Sage Essential Oil

Sage essential oil, Salvia officinalis, steam distilled from the leaves of the plant has an uplifting, herbal scent. The Chinese believed Sage cured sterility and the Romans believed it cured just about everything. The Latin word "salvare" means 'to heal' or 'to save'. Sage has been used throughout history for...

Organic Spearmint Essential Oil

Organic Spearmint Essential Oil

Spearmint essential oil helps cleanse and close pores and tighten skin. It controls oil production but is gentle enough to use for combination skin. The anti-inflammatory and cooling properties of the oil can help soothe aching muscles and joints. In hair care, it can help treat scalp conditions like dandruff and add luster to dull hair....

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Organic Tea Tree Essential Oil

Organic Tea Tree Essential Oil

Tea tree essential oil helps heal infections, soothe skin disorders like topical allergic reactions, rashes, and burns and helps fight acne without causing dryness. In hair care, tea tree oil is used as a treatment for oily hair, dandruff, and itchiness. Aromatherapy: The fresh, purifying scent will help soothe your mind, reduce anxiety, and improve...

Organic Thyme Essential Oil

Organic Thyme Essential Oil

Thyme essential oil one of the oldest medicinal herbs has been recognized since antiquity for its cleansing, mildly astringent, healing, and soothing effects on the skin. In hair care, thyme is used in deep cleansing shampoos and may help with hair loss and dandruff. Aromatherapy: Thyme helps relieve feelings of stress and anxiety. During cold...

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Organic Ylang Ylang Essential Oil

Organic Ylang Ylang Essential Oil

Ylang Ylang is a balancing essential oil good for all skin types. Its antiseptic properties make it helpful for acne-prone skin. In hair care, it stimulates the scalp and helps balance the production of sebum. Aromatherapy: Ylang Ylang promotes relaxation, and calms anxiety. Its penetrating aroma also improves mood and helps to stimulate positive feelings.