Bay Essential Oil

Bay Essential Oil (Pimenta racemosa)

Bay is a warming and stimulating essential oil, known especially for its scalp stimulating properties, making it great for greasy, lifeless hair and promoting hair growth. It has a strong but very pleasant spicy-sweet aroma.

Kathryn Anne Bay Essential Oil comes in a 10ml glass amber bottle with a black screw top lid that includes a dropper.

Aromatherapy Uses

Skin: scalp stimulant – dilute in a hair rinse/shampoo for dandruff, greasy lifeless hair, and to promote hair growth.
Circulation: poor circulation.
Immune: colds, flu, infections.
Muscular-skeletal:muscular and articular aches and pains, sprains, strains, neuralgia, rheumatism.

Bay is a top to middle note essential oil and blends well with citrus oils, frankincense, geranium, lavender, rosemary, sandalwood, spice oils, and ylang ylang. It is made by steam distillation of the leaves.

Did you know?

The so called bay rum tree provides the basic ingredient for the famous old hair tonic, which is made through the leaves being distilled in rum. Bay essential oil is extensively used in fragrance products for men, including aftershaves.