Camphor White Essential Oil
White Camphor helps maintain healthy circulation and respiration and can help balance oily skin.
How to use?
4-5 drops in bath, on tissue or in a vaporiser. 15 drops in 50ml carrier.
WARNING – do not apply undiluted or internally. Keep away from children and eyes. Store in cool, dark place.
Latin Name |
Cinnamomum Camphors |
Plant family |
Lauraceae |
Extraction |
Distilled from the wood, root stumps and branches |
Having three types of oil White is the lightest oil and is a colourless to pale yellow liquid with a sharp pungent camphoraceous odour, brown is the middle fraction and yellow - a blue-green yellow liquid is the heaviest.
Growing up to 30 meters high, this evergreen is not unlike the linden. It has many branches bearing clusters of small white flowers followed by red berries. It produces a white crystalline substance, the crude camphor, from the wood of mature trees of over 50 years old. There are many different species of Camphor, the ho-sho variety produces ho wood oil, the Chinese variety produces apopin oil.
Suitable for : All skin