SANDALWOOD
This gorgeous-smelling oil is great for treating skin conditions like acne, dry and cracked skin and has a positive effect on the respiratory system. It acts as a mood elevator and aids sleep. Great in incense, a room burner or used as part of a body oil.

CINNAMON

The oil is used mainly to perfume food and beauty products like toothpaste, nasal spray and cough syrups. The leaf oil is one ingredient used to flavour Coca-Cola.

CEDARWOOD

This oil is fantastic to use in a room burner or to burn in your office as it works to relieve stressrelated conditions by calming the mind. Rubbed into the skin as part of a body oil it helps to relieve arthritis and rheumatism. It is also used a lot in men’s fragrances.

ALERT
An oil that is no longer sustainable and that should not be used is that of the rosewood tree, being one that has been decimated through the felling of the Amazon rainforests. Brazil and Peru are the main producers of the rosewood tree. It was used extensively in furniture making and was the main source of natural linalool, now produced synthetically.

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Essential Oils by Julia Lawless. ISBN 1-85230-311-5