Frankincense Essential Oil

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Frankincense is best known for its Biblical connections, which is why the oil remains so popular around the festive season.
But Frankincense oil has also been used as a traditional medicine for thousands of years in communities across the world, with people in Africa, Asia and the Middle East using it as a natural remedy to treat a whole host of ailments.
The natural, woody, pine-like scent is a popular choice with many people who incorporate aromatherapeutic practices into their lives, with the oil helping them to find calm and a sense of inner peace.
There are lots of Frankincense oil benefits you can enjoy and a growing number that are being put under the microscope by scientists who are keen to understand more about this ancient oil.
Here we look at its past and present, with one eye on the possible medical treatments it could offer in the future.
Frankincense Essential Oil Benefits

Traditionally used in aromatherapy to:

• Soothe & calm nerves and relieve symptoms of stress.


• Relieve bronchial mucous congestion.


• Reduce common cold duration, relieve cough and clear respiratory tract mucous.


• Reduce skin dryness other benefits.


• Antioxidant – reduces free radicals formed in the body.


• Helps decrease free radical damage to body cells.


• Relieve nervous tension & unrest.


• Relieve mild upper respiratory tract congestion.

Aromatic Description

Warm, spicy, clean
Plant Part

Resin from Boswellia carterii, frereana and sacra