WHITE GRAPEFRUIT PURE ESSENTIAL OIL
Citrus paradisi
This evergreen citrus tree has glossy dark green leaves and white aromatic flowers that produce plump, yellow-skinned grapefruits. An uplifting essential oil is cold pressed from the rind with a warm, sweet, citrus fresh, delicate floral aroma. White Grapefruit essential oil is excellent for sanitising and disinfecting living areas with its light, zesty, fruity aroma. Strong phytochemicals make it a strong anti-septic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and diuretic substance. It freshens skin tone and is excellent for massage on the face when diluted with Sweet Almond, Argan or Marula oils. Grapefruit essential oil is most effective when diffused into the air to brighten a depressed or stressed mind. Inhaling this oil stimulates the nervous system and increases alertness and focus.
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The merits of this oil
Energy, alertness and focus: Start your day energised with Grapefruit essential oil. It helps to calm fatigue of mind and body, the reason it should be diffused in the morning before going to work. It is an uplifting oil that helps to calm nerves. Just inhaling the vapours stimulates the nervous system, increasing alertness and focus.
Adrenal fatigue: Grapefruit activates the endocrine system and improves the secretion of enzymes and hormones that affect the metabolic activities of the body. It helps adrenal fatigue and lethargy.
Lymphatic circulation: An invigorating oil that increases blood and lymphatic circulation and energises the body.
A natural appetite suppressant that calms sugar cravings: When you’ve eaten enough food, your brain signals with chemicals that you are satiated. Grapefruit essential oil could help to balance your eating.
An effective appetite suppressant, Grapefruit affects the hypothalamus, the satiety center of the brain. Studies show that it is able to affect calorie intake and calm appetite. Just breathe in the vapours from the bottle for up to 18 minutes before a meal. This oil is also able to calm the craving for sugary foods.
A strong anti-microbial disinfectant: Grapefruit is saturated with strong anti-microbial actions, similar to Lemon and the citrus oils, making it excellent for disinfecting sores. It also protects from urinary tract infections and the fungal yeast that causes Candida albicans infections.
Effective for several strains of bacteria, Grapefruit helps prevent skin infections, respiratory infection and gastrointestinal infections. Inhalation of the soothing vapours helps to prevent respiratory tract infections.
Improve your cleaning products and include this oil: Include Grapefruit essential oil in your cleaning products for its bright, fresh aroma and excellent anti-bacterial and anti-septic disinfecting actions.
Freshen your living areas: An excellent oil for clearing odour in living areas. Blend a dash of Grapefruit essential oil with water in a water spray bottle and spritz into the air or diffuse for uplifting freshness. Grapefruit is particularly effective for eradicating the microbes that cause odour.
Athlete’s foot: Grapefruit essential oil is excellent for athlete’s foot. Dilute a couple of drops in Sweet Almond oil and massage your feet every day.
Hair growth: Grapefruit is effective for stimulating hair growth where there is thinning of hair or baldness.
Muscle fatigue: Massage fatigued muscles with Grapefruit essential oil diluted in Olive Oil, Hempseed Oil or Sweet Almond Oil to help calm muscle fatigue and energise your body.
Natural diuretic: An excellent detoxifying oil with diuretic actions to help flush toxins from the body through urine. A natural diuretic and lymphatic stimulant, Grapefruit helps to detoxify and decrease water weight.
Anti-infectious calmer of colds or flu: Limonene is the main substance in Grapefruit essential oil and has anti-infectious actions to help prevent and calm flu and colds.
Tonic for digestion and liver: Grapefruit essential oil is a tonic for the stomach and liver and enhances the proper secretion of digestive fluids. It helps to drain and detoxify the liver and kidneys, besides its effectiveness for the digestive system where it calms the symptoms of cramping, dyspepsia and flatulence. It stimulates the gall bladder and is a digestive and liver tonic.
Anti-depression euphoric uplifter: The fresh aroma lifts the mind and improves emotional equilibrium to uplift depression.
Immune stimulant: Citrus essential oils, including Grapefruit oil are immune system stimulants.
Oily skin, firming of skin, fever, headache, nerves and increases blood circulation.
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER
The information on this website is for informational and educational purposes only. Information or products discussed are not meant to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent any disease or illness. Approach a health practitioner before making changes to your diet, taking supplements or using essential oils that might interfere with medications.
