10ml Star Anise Essential Oil
Star Anise essential oil has a beautiful, fresh, sweet, spicy, liquorice-like aroma. It is produced from the seeds of an unusual fruit that grows on a small oriental tree. The fruit is, as the name suggests, star shaped, radiating between five and ten pointed sections, about eight on average.
- 100% pure Star Anise essential oil.
- Botanical Name: Illicium verum
- Common Method of Extraction: Steam Distilled
- Part Typically Used: Seeds
- Colour: Pale Yellow
- Consistency: Thin
- Perfumery Note: Middle
- Strength of Initial Aroma: Strong
- Aromatic Description: Sharp, anise and liquorice-like aroma.
- Star Anise Oil Uses: Rheumatism, bronchitis, coughing, colic, indigestion/cramping, colds, flu. [Julia Lawless, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Essential Oils (Rockport, MA: 1995), 61-66.]
- Major Constituents: (E)-anethole Foeniculin Methyl chavicol Limonene Linalool Nerolidol Cinnamyl acetate [E. Joy Bowles, The Chemistry of Aromatherapeutic Oils (NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2003), 190.]
Star Anise Essential Oil has an aroma similar to black liquorice. Star Anise Oil can be useful in diffuser and inhaler blends intended to help ease bronchitis, colds and the flu. Safety Information: Various precautions abound for those with hypersensitive skin or with skin problems. Tisserand and Young recommend a dermal maximum of 1.75%. They indicate that it may inhibit blood clotting and that it is contraindicated in pregnancy/breastfeeding, endometriosis and estrogen-dependent cancers. Avoid use with children under 5. Avoid use of the oil if it has oxidized. [Robert Tisserand and Rodney Young, Essential Oil Safety (Second Edition. United Kingdom: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2014), 197.] Tisserand and Young include additional information that is recommended reading.
