Melissa Blend Essential Oil

Melissa Essential Oil is extracted from Melissa officinalis of the Labiatae family and is also known as balm, lemon balm, as well as common, sweet and bee balm.

This soft and bushy perennial plant from the Mediterranean region grows to about 60 cm (2 feet) and likes soil with a high iron content and has small serrated slightly hairy leaves and small white-pink flowers.

The flowers are very attractive to bees; the name 'Melissa' is the Greek word for honeybee and is also know as "lemon balm' or in Hebrew 'Bal- Smin" meaning 'Chief of oils.'

In the 14th century it was included in tonic water made by the French Carmelite nuns and Paracelsus (1493 - 1541) called this herb 'The Elixir of life' while John Evelyn (1620 -1706) described it as "sovereign for the brain, strengthening the memory, and powerfully chasing away melancholy".

Melissa essential oil has many uses in aromatherapy and helps to bring calmness to the mind, while having a great sedating effect, calming the heartbeat and palpitations.

Although Melissa grows easily the yield of oil from the plant is very small hence its great cost. If used on the skin use in dilution's of 1% or less. Melissa oil has a sweet, fresh and citrus-like smell and is pale yellow in color and has a watery viscosity.

Due to the prohibitive price of pure Melissa Natural Touch Aromatherapy offer a high quality blend of pure Lemon and Melissa essential oils created by redistilling lemon essential oil over fresh melissa herbs. The blend is a pale yellow essential oil with a fresh, herbaceous, lemony aroma.

This blended oil has some of the properties of Melissa but in a very dilute form. Its uses are more in line with those of Lemon oil. As a potent cleanser it has an overall astringent effect and tends to 'pull thing together'. It is useful for oily skins.

Melissa Blend Essential Oil Certificate of Purity