Peppermint

Makes you feel alert, and energized and can help reduce that brain fog feeling. It can also help with mild belly issues, it can ease nausea, and help aid with reducing headache discomfort. It can also be used to help relax painful areas of the body.

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Benefits and Uses

Benefits:

• Prediluted in a carrier oil for extra convenience
• Great to put in a backpack or purse
• Soothes sore muscles and body aches
• Can help open up the sinuses
• A great tool to use to help enhance concentration and focus
• Can be an appetite suppressant when inhaled
• Can be helpful with bronchial spasms and coughing

Uses:

• Roll on your chest to help with any bronchial spasms or coughing. It can also help open up the sinus when inhaled.
• Roll on the temples and back of the neck if you feel a headache coming on.
• Roll some on your wrist and pulse points to help with concentration. Especially when you are about to take a test or go into a meeting. You can smell your wrist and feel more calm and focused.
• Rolling on your wrist is a great avenue to also use for nausea or trying to wait a little bit longer before it’s eating time.
• Roll on a painful area to help reduce inflammation and pain

Ingredients

Peppermint (Mentha x piperita) Organically grown

Jojoba Oil (Simmondsia chinensis) Certified USDA organic. Very skin nourishing, easily absorbed into the skin, and won’t clog pores.

Safety and Shelf Life

Safety:

• Life Essential Blends (LEB) Dilutes their peppermint at a 3% dilution. May not be very powerful in smelling strength, but safer to use topically.
• Should be safe to use on children over 7.
• Avoid contact with eyes, sensitive skin, and fresh wounds or burns.
• Some research shows that peppermint can be contraindicated in case of cardiac fibrillation and for G6PD deficiency.
• According to Tisserand R, Balacs T. Essential Oil safety. They state that peppermint should not be used at a stronger dilution than 3% on mucous membranes.
• Essential Oil Safety by Tisserand and Young (second edition), recommends a maximum of 5% dilution to be used topically

Life Essential Blends (LEB) recommends when using a new product or blend to test a small area on the forearm first. Wait for 10-15 minutes to be sure there are no irritations or reactions being stimulated.

Shelf Life:

The product is best used within 3 years after purchase. Stop using if the product starts to smell rancid.