Canadian Balsam Essential Oil
$308.00
Canadian Balsam essential oil is a colourless liquid with a soft, balsamic, pine-like scent.
A graceful evergreen tree that grows up to twenty meters high with a tapering trunk and numerous branches gives the tree shape of a perfect cone. It forms blisters of oleoresin on the trunk, and branches, produced from special vesicles beneath the bark. The tree does not produce a "true" balsam since it does not contain benzoic or cinnamic acid in its esters, it is really an oleoresin, being a mixture of resin and essential oil. Native to North America.
| Latin Name | Abies balsamea |
| Plant Family | Pinaceae |
| Extraction | Distillation of the bark & resin |
| Traditionally use | Used for ritual purposes and as a treatment for burns, sores, cuts and chest pains. |
| Blends with | Canadian Balsam is a middle note and blends well with pine, cedarwood, cypress, sandalwood, juniper and benzoin. |
Suitable for : All skin