Orange Essential Oil Benefits

The Many Benefits of Orange Essential Oil

Health Benefits:

1. Anti-Depressant properties help relieve depression symptoms. Using orange essential oil for aromatherapy will help relieve stress and anxiety. This will improve your mood as well as the rest of your family.

2. Anti- Inflammatory components will help reduce inflammation internally and externally due to infection.  It helps swelling by encouraging blood flow in those areas. This can be very helpful with people suffering from arthritis and physical injuries.

3. Anti- aging element promotes collagen production in skin. Who needs Botox when you can create your own collagen? Orange essential oil will also help with irritated, dry skin and acne. During the winter your skin can take a beating with the dry air, use orange essential oil to help rejuvenate your skin. Be sure to use carrier oils such as jojoba, sweet almond, or avocado when applying directly to the skin.

Cleaning Benefits:

1. Using orange essential oil to clean your cutting boards has a deodorizing effect. It also helps prevent the growth of E.Coli and Salmonella according to a 2011 study in the Journal of Food Science. If you cook with a lot of meats this should be something you do often to reduce cross contamination. Wood cutting boards can absorb a lot of particles in between the grain.

2. Orange essential oil is perfect for cleaning the kitchen and bathroom because its ability to prevent germ growth on the skin and surfaces. These are the most commonly used surfaces in your home, why not disinfect them properly? The soothing scent doesn’t hurt your home atmosphere either!

3. Do you have stubborn grease stuck on your countertop? Place a few drops of orange essential oil and wipe with a damp sponge. (Check manufacturer warning before applying oil directly onto the surface) This trick will work almost anywhere, just be sure the surface won’t be damaged by the oil!

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