Description

Tagetes Essential Oil

Description:

Tagetes is an annual herb up to 60 cm high with soft, oval, pale leaves and bright orange daisy-like flowers. The essential oil is obtained by steam distillation from the fresh flowering herb.

Uses & Benefits:

• • Tagetes oil is rich in therapeutic properties. It is good anti-infectious oil; it is anti- microbial, antibiotic, anti- spasmodic, anti-parasitic, insecticide.

• • Tagetes oil is useful in the treatment of chest infections, coughs and catarrh as well as in dilating and bronchitis.

• • The essential oil of Tagetes has healing effects. It works well in wounds, cuts, calluses an bunions. Tagetes essential oil is also useful in the treatment of respiratory system, cures skin infections and is good insect.

• • Blends of Tagetes essential oil is used as massage oil; it is also diluted in baths and is effective in fungal and microbial infections.

• • Tagetes is used in making herbal soap bar due to its excellence properties and sweet, citrus odour.

• • Tagete oil has unique place in perfumery being used in men’s perfumes, and for general use to support floral themes.

• • It is also used for flavoring tobacco and in most major food categories, including alcoholic and soft drinks.

Tagetes Essential Oil Specification: