What is Puressentiel Organic Essential Oil Peppermint used for?
Puressentiel Organic Essential Oil Peppermint 10ml refreshes and reassures. It makes light work of everyday digestive problems and dispels headaches and motion sickness with ease. Precious and easy to use. Its fragrance refreshes and reassures. It makes light work of everyday digestive problems and dispels headaches and motion sickness with ease. Precious and easy to use!
Key properties: Facilitates digestion. Anti-pain. Anti-nausea. Anti-itching. Mental action: Promotes concentration and calm.
Major indications:
- Digestive disorders - Slow digestion, indigestion, acid reflux, gas, nausea, vomiting, motion sickness, bad breath.
- Pain of all kinds - Tendonitis, sciatica, rheumatism, headaches, neuralgia.
Peppermint essential oil is known for its refreshing and stimulating effect on body and mind. Its invigorating minty aroma can help stimulate the senses, increase mental alertness and improve concentration. It is often used in aromatic diffusers to create an energizing, invigorating atmosphere.
Peppermint is renowned for its carminative and antispasmodic properties, making it an effective natural remedy for digestive disorders such as bloating, abdominal cramps and indigestion. Diluted topically, it can also soothe gastrointestinal discomfort.
Thanks to its high menthol content, Peppermint essential oil has analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. It can be massaged to relieve muscle pain, headaches and tension, and to reduce inflammation associated with a variety of ailments.
Peppermint also possesses antimicrobial properties, making it a valuable ally in the fight against bacterial, viral and fungal infections. It can be used as a vapour to purify ambient air and as a diluted skin application to help treat infectious skin conditions.
Thanks to its expectorant and decongestant properties, Peppermint essential oil is effective for relieving respiratory ailments such as colds, coughs and nasal congestion. Inhaled or diffused, it can help clear the airways and ease breathing.
The aromatherapy laboratory Puressentiel also offerspeppermint essential oil in capsules, at the best price in our online pharmacy.
How to use this essential oil
Cutaneous application: Yes ++ (undiluted over a small area, diluted in vegetable oil for repeated applications or over a large area, or if skin is sensitive).
Dispersion / inhalation: Yes ++ Oral use
Oral use: Yes ++++
Take a maximum of 2 drops 3 times a day on a Puressentiel neutral tablet (or 1 teaspoon of honey, olive oil or 1/4 sugar).
Do not use undiluted or mixed with water.
As a precautionary measure, do not use on children under 7, pregnant or breastfeeding women, people with a history of seizure or epileptic disorders, or those allergic to essential oils.
Precautions for use
- In high doses, menthone is excitostupefying and hypertensive.
- May cause headaches, bradycardia, tremors, ataxia, insomnia, bronchial spasm and spasm of the glottis and larynx.
- Drug interactions with homeopathic remedies
- Possible allergy to menthol
- Do not diffuse or use in the bath
- Not recommended for infants, can be fatal!
- Contraindicated for pregnant (abortive) or breast-feeding women, and for children (risk of bronchospasm).
- For adults only
- Do not associate with cortisone (if monoterpenes exceed 10%)
- Caution in cases of gastroesophageal reflux, gallstones or hepatopancreatic disorders(per os).
- Drug interactions with essential oils containing more than 10% sesquiterpenes
- Risk of neurotoxicity that may induce epileptic seizures at high doses
- Caution for people with autoimmune diseases, epilepsy, asthma, Parkinson's disease or the elderly, as well as for neurosensitive individuals.
- Do not use in people deficient in G6PD (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase), involved in its detoxification (risk of toxicity by accumulation) -(menthol)
- Contraindicated for internal use
What is its composition?
Essential oil of Mentha x Piperita (producing organ: aerial parts).
Available at
Available in 10ml and 30ml bottles.