Sandalwood oil

At all times, sandalwood oil had a very high price. Numerous caravans stretched across the deserts of Arabia and Persia, delivering it to Roman emperors and Egyptian pharaohs, along with spices and silks. Years passed, the kingdoms and empires collapsed, but the demand for it has not fallen to this day. Many manufacturers of perfume products with great pleasure add it to their products.

Sandalwood oil has been considered the most elite since time immemorial, it is mentioned in ancient Chinese and Sanskrit manuscripts, and in India for more than a century it is used in Vedic medicine and religious rituals.

The most expensive is sandalwood oil, derived from Indian varieties of wood, because it is known that it has a special, quite resistant, but perfectly combined with other oils, the aroma - refined, charming and sweet. It is capable of combining several smells of essential oils as a basis, without interrupting them and preventing them from escaping. It is for this reason that it is introduced into lotions, deodorants, soaps and creams, they release aromatic sticks and candles, air fresheners.

The essential oil of sandalwood is extracted from the very core of the tree trunk, which should be more than 30 years old. In its rich and complex composition is Santalol, which perfume is used to fix the odor. The consistency of this substance is thick and viscous, and the color varies from light to dark brown, depending on the saturation.

This wonderful oil, besides perfumery, has many healing properties. It is used as an antiseptic to prevent the infection from spreading, as anti-inflammatory - in inflammation of vessels and nerves, diseases of the digestive tract, with fever, infections and insect bites.

Sandal oil relieves spasms and cramps, relaxing muscles and blood vessels. It can be taken orally, diluted in milk, as a disinfectant in diseases of the intestines, throat, urinary canals. If this substance is lubricated with a wound or ulcer, then relief will come very quickly.

Today many doctors remove inflammation of the kidneys with the help of sandalwood oil, doing with him therapeutic massage in certain areas, and for women it helps with vaginitis and cystitis, alleviates the painful condition with menopause and menstruation, relieves frigidity.

This oil is equally useful for men: it plays the role of Viagra in the treatment of sexual disorders, helping not to resort to strong medications and not to put your health at risk.

Even the most banal flu or cold recedes away: after all, sandalwood oil can destroy viruses, and when rubbed into the back and chest it creates an excellent expectorant effect.

Thanks to its remarkable properties, this oil, considered to be the main one for meditation, calms down under stress, relieving depression, and simultaneously increases the tone and gives strength. Many believe that it awakens in man its creativity, giving him a sense of personal worth, is an excellent way to combat insomnia and headaches.

In addition to external application, sandalwood is excellent for inhalations and as a filling for the aroma lamp. Just seven drops added to it, create on the area of more than 20 square meters a wonderful and distinctive flavor, reminiscent of the exotic East.

Due to the high demand for this oil, today there is a ruthless cutting of trees, and young just do not have time to grow, and therefore the prices for sandalwood grow at a crazy rate, which forces many manufacturers to forge its raw materials. Therefore, buying this product in the store, you need to be especially careful: the real stuff can not be inexpensive, although the price is not the only difference from the counterfeit. If you drop real oil on white paper, then after a few minutes it completely disappears from the sheet, leaving behind a not too sharp, uniform flavor, without impurities and shades.