Frankincense: The Supporting Essential Oil

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Learn how frankincense essential oil can help those with low self-esteem or who have gone through a life-changing event. So let’s dive straight into frankincense essential oil!

Frankincense & How It’s Obtained

Frankincense trees grow mainly in the Middle East and the resin is harvested and burned for religious ceremonies. The idea is that all our prayers are wrapped up in a sweet smell for the gods and therefore they’re more likely to be answered. The resin is collected from small cuts made in the bark of the tree and then steam distilled to produce this beautiful, deep frankincense essential oil.

Frankincense Properties, Uses & Benefits

Traditionally, frankincense essential oil helped with clearing the lungs. It’s also an antidepressant, so it will uplift you. It helps to slow the spread of infection, so it’s great to burn if somebody’s ill in the house. It’s anti-inflammatory, it can help sensitive skin, and it is immunostimulating. It does give your immune system quite a boost.

However, frankincense essential oil is most often used for grief and depression, and it has amazing effects on bereaved people, whether through loss of a loved one, loss of a marriage, loss of children when they leave home to go to uni or to marry, or loss of a career. Frankincense really can help to build up your self-worth because it’s grounding and its aroma can help us overcome that deep sense of loss we can feel when life events happen.

If you inhale frankincense, the aromatic molecules can uplift your spirit almost immediately and that helps you to feel more confident and stronger in that moment. So frankincense can impart self-worth through the grounding and uplifting aroma, and studies show that frankincense can calm the soul and bring peace.

Using Frankincense Essential Oil

There are many ways that you can use frankincense oil just on its own.

Vapouriser & Diffuser

For example, you could put four to eight drops in a vaporiser and that’s just burning all day in your home, and that will bring joy and help to your soul all day.

Bath

You can put four to eight drops in a warm bath to bring relaxation and peace.

Massage

You could put five drops in 20 mls of almond oil for a relaxing massage. It is best used on the chest area because then you’ll be able to inhale it as well. And because frankincense is very good for chest conditions, it will help you to breathe more deeply.

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Inhalation

Use four drops on a piece of tissue for on-the-go inhalation. Just put your four drops on and pop it somewhere where you can smell it all day.

Sleep

You can put a couple of drops on the pillow to help you have a more restful sleep.

I hope you’ve learned something today about this very special essential oil. In the next lesson, we’re going to discover all about the essential oil of Palmarosa, its properties and how it can help you.