Tulsi Essential Oil

Description

This beautiful tulsi essential oil has many strings to its bow. Tulsi is also known as sacred basil (Ocimum sanctum L.).  

Energetic Profile: This oil has a balancing and energizing effect on all aspects of the psyche–physical, emotional, mental and spiritual–while at the same time helping us to maintain a relaxed and peaceful sense of being.

It helps us to connect to a feeling of authenticity and emotional integrity. Tulsi encourages us to speak our truth from a place of equilibrium and live our lives and creative projects from our deepest sense of self. Energizing, gives courage, perseverance. Helpful for mental support (exams, writing  book…) Helps us face conflicts. 

Smell: Eugenol, herby, warm, some floral notes, spicy

Perfumery note: Middle note

Main Chemical Constituents: camphor, eucalyptol, eugenol, alpha bisabolene, beta bisabolene, and beta caryophyllene (1), (2) 

Adulteration and quality: Adulteration is considered widespread (3). We trust our distiller in India doesn’t adulterate.

Citation:

1. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00681/full
2. Kumar A, Shukla R, et. al., Chemical composition, antifungal and antiaflatoxigenic activities of Ocimum sanctum L. essential oil and its safety assessment as plant based antimicrobial, Food and Chemical Toxicology.  48(2), 2010, 539-543, ISSN 0278-6915, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2009.11.028.
3. Ratnasekhar CH, Khan S, et. at. Rapid metabolic fingerprinting meets machine learning models to identify authenticity and detect adulteration of essential oils with vegetable oils: Mentha and Ocimum study, Food Chemistry, Volume 471, 2025, 142709, ISSN 0308-8146, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2024.142709.

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