Black Pepper Essential Oil

Black Pepper Essential Oil (Piper nigrum)

Black Pepper essential oil is a warming, grounding, and stimulating oil, a good choice for poor circulation and clearing congestion. It smells just like freshly ground black pepper!

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

Aromatherapy Uses

Nervous: pain, neuralgia, Raynaud’s.
Skin: chillblains, feeling cold, bruises.
Digestive: indigestion, flatulence, constipation, nausea, loss of appetite.
Respiratory: bronchitis, catarrh.
Immune: infections, fever.
Muscular-skeletal: aches and pains, stiffness, arthritis, strains, sprains.

Black Pepper is a base note essential oil and blends well with frankincense, lavender, marjoram, rosemary, and many spicy, floral, or citrus oils. It is made through steam distillation of the unripe berries (peppercorns), dried and crushed.

Did you know?

Black Pepper was once so highly prized that it was once used as a ransom, and in the 15th century tenants could pay ‘peppercorn rents’ to their landlords.