What is Sandalwood Oil?
Sandalwood oil is an essential oil obtained from sandalwood tree. Sandalwood oil is obtained through steam distillation of heartwood and roots of 40 – 80 years old sandal trees.
Sandalwood oil has a sweet, warm, balsamic, woody aroma. It is transparent in colour and has a slight yellowish tinge. Its wonderful scent and skin care benefits makes it very useful for the cosmetic industry.
Sandalwood wood oil should never be used directly on skin. It should be mixed with carrier oils for best results. It blends well with Bergamot, Geranium, Lavender, Myrrh, Rose, Vetiver, Ylang-Ylang oils.
Sandalwood oil is used in a number of skin care and beauty products such as perfumes, lotions, creams, deodorants etc. It is also widely used in incense sticks and room-freshners.
What are the medicinal properties of Sandalwood?
Sandalwood is known to have extremely beneficial medicinal properties such as:
- Anti-inflammatory: Reduces pain, swelling
- Antiphlogistic: Useful to cure fever
- Anti-septic: Helps prevents infections
- Anti-spasmodic Relieves spams
- Carminative: Removal of gases from stomach and intestine
- Diuretic: Increases discharge of urine
- Emollient: Softens and soothes the skin.
- Hypotensive Reduces blood pressure
- Memory booster Helps improve memory
- Sedative: Has Calming effect, reduces anxiety, stress, irritability
What are the benefits of Sandalwood Massage Oil?
Sandalwood oil when used for massaging has a very calming, soothing, refreshing and rejuvenating effect.
It helps cure skin problems such as acne, chapped hands, cracked feet, dry, itchy skin, nail problems, skin rashes, stretch marks, wrinkles.
Sandalwood oil massage relieves stress, anxiety, irritation and helps keep the brain calm, cool and relaxed. It also improves memory and concentration.
Sandalwood oil has sedative properties, hence massaging with Sandalwood oil is used for treatment of fear, stress, restlessness, depression etc.
Sandalwood oil mixed with bath water gives you a refreshingly cool experience and leaves a delicate perfume lingering over your body.
Sandalwood has anitseptic properties that prevent wounds, boils, pimples from getting septic and keep away infections.
Massaging with Sandalwood oil is particularly helpful to relieve inflammation of nervous system, digestive system, circulatory system. It helps relax intestinal and abdominal muscles, removes gas.
Sandalwood oil is useful for treating urinary infections as it soothes and relaxes the urinary system. Hence not only does passing urine becomes easier, but the frequency and quantity also increases.
Sandalwood oil massage relaxes nerves, muscles and helps cure cramps, aches, spasms.
If Sandalwood oil is not available, then you can use sandalwood powder for a massage as well.
Mix Sandalwood powder to your massage oil and leave it overnight. Then use it the next morning for massaging.
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I was adviced to use sandalwood oil for stretch marks with some aloe vera cream. Now I am pregnant and in my 10th week of pregnancy. Can I use this combination for stretch marks prevention? How should I use it?
After visiting Sri Lanka, I was advised by a Herbalist to use Sandal Wood Oil on my skin/face for a beautiful skin. Tried applying some on the face & massaged my face with it and guess what. My face is still burning as I slept with it over night.
Any advise if other is a way to use this.