essential oils

A few more things about peppermint and then we’ll do a little formulating with it! Smelling peppermint oil might be good for enhancing your memory and increasing alertness (Moss et al, 2003). Peppermint oil might be good at repelling mice and it might be good at repelling ear mites (put a little on a Q-tip...

Peppermint essential oil is one of the more common essential oils. It’s plentiful and inexpensive, and the minty coolness it brings to our products is most welcome (except when we’re soaking in it! Eek!) Peppermint essential oil is composed of 38% to 48% menthol (a monoterpene), 20% to 30% menthone, and about 6% 1,8-cineole (aka eucalyptol, which we...

…there’s just way too much to learn about peppermint! I’ve spent the last three mornings researching it, and I think to post on menthol this morning would be a disservice as I don’t feel I can adequately put together all the cool stuff I’ve been learning about peppermint essential oil! Instead, here are a few...

Peppermint seems to get associated with foot care products quite a lot, but it seems there is more this minty essential oil can offer to our products! Peppermint essential oil tends to be steam distilled from the flowers of the Mentha x piperita plant, a hybrid plant. High pressure distillation seems to be the norm, but...