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.
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Latin Name
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Abies balsamea
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Plant Family
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Pinaceae
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Extraction
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Distillation of the bark & resin |
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Traditionally use
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Used for ritual purposes and as a treatment for burns, sores, cuts and chest pains.
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| Blends with |
Canadian Balsam is a middle note and blends well with pine, cedarwood, cypress, sandalwood, juniper and benzoin.
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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.
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Latin Name
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Abies balsamea
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Plant Family
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Pinaceae
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