The essential oil has a spicy warm, peppery and musky aroma.
Black Pepper Essential Oil
Pepper has been used extensively throughout history, especially in Ayurvedic medicine. For over 4,000 years, both white and black pepper has helped ailments ranging from cholera, dysentery, and malaria to diarrhea and other digestive troubles.
Black pepper essential oil has quite a wide range of therapeutic uses as well. The volatile oil of pepper is a rubefacient that can be an irritant to the skin and mucus membranes, so should always be used diluted.
Botanical Name: Piper nigrum
Also Known As: King of Spices
Family: Piperaceae
Origin: South India
Plant Part: Berries
Extraction Method: Steam distillation
Description: A thin, colourless to greenish liquid.
Aromatic Summary: Middle note with a medium aroma, sharp, spicy scent..
INCI: piper nigrum (black pepper) seed oi
CAS Number: 8006-82-4Shelf life: 2 -3 years. Once bottle is opened