Wintergreen Essential Oil

Discover Dr.Valnet's organic Wintergreen essential oil, 10 ml.

Why use Dr.Valnet's organic Wintergreen essential oil?

Dr.Valnet's Wintergreen essential oil is traditionally used to improve the following conditions:

• Inflammatory pain: rheumatism, osteoarthritis, arthritis, tendinitis (tennis elbow...), stiff neck.
• Muscle pain: tired and sore muscles, sprains, strains, cramps.

How to use Dr.Valnet's Wintergreen essential oil?

Instructions for use

Oral use: no

On the skin: after skin test

It can be used almost pure, in localized applications, on less sensitive and reactive skin. Otherwise, dilute 20 to 30% of the essential oil in a vegetable oil.

Diffusion: no

Body care: It is the essential oil for athletes. Diluted in Arnica oil, before and after exertion.

IMPORTANT: Observe the instructions for use, precautions, and dosages. Perform a skin test in the crook of the elbow to avoid a possible risk of allergy. Apply one drop and wait 24 hours for any skin reaction or otherwise. Be careful with eyes!

For any therapeutic use of essential oils or internal use, use during pregnancy, during breastfeeding, for young children, consult a specialist doctor. For more information and therapeutic uses, consult a specialist doctor.

It is recommended to maintain a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. Keep out of reach of children. This product is not a medicine.

What is Dr.Valnet's organic Wintergreen essential oil?

Some botanical notes

Gaultheria is a genus comprising many species of shrubs in the Ericaceae family, native to Asia, America, and Australia.

Native to the forests of Canada and the northern United States, creeping wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) is a small shrub measuring 15 to 30 cm high that grows in dry and arid soils. It has an underground stem that develops into aerial branches. Its thick, lanceolate, shiny, dark green leaves are evergreen. Its white or pale pink bell-shaped flowers are located at the base of the leaves and turn into small fragrant and edible red berries.

Native to the forests of the Himalayas, fragrant wintergreen (Gaultheria frarantissima) is a shrub 1 to 3 meters high. It is the source of an essential oil similar to that extracted from Gaultheria procumbens, characterized by a very high methyl salicylate content (>95%).

A bit of history…

Traditionally, Inuit and Canadian Indians chewed and steeped its leaves to treat many winter ailments, lower fever, but also and above all to relieve muscle and joint pain.

Wintergreen was identified by Jean-François Gaulthier (1706-1756), a French physician and botanist in the service of the King of Quebec in the 18th century, who gave it its name.

Its leaves served as a tea substitute, particularly during the American War of Independence. Hence its nickname "woodland tea."

In the mid-19th century, the American William Proctor, "father of American pharmacy," and the French chemist Auguste Cahours conducted in-depth studies of wintergreen and discovered its very high content of methyl salicylate, which served as a basis for the preparation of salicylic acid, a precursor to acetylsalicylic acid, better known by the trade name aspirin.

Composition of Dr.Valnet's organic Wintergreen essential oil, 10 ml.