Black pepper oil

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Black Pepper Oil benefits

1.  Soothes Pain

Like many oils, black pepper essential oil has warming, anti-inflammatory and anti-spasmodic properties.  This can help reduce pain from tired or injured muscles. This is because the warming effect improves your blood circulation when you massage the oil into your muscles.

2.  Eases Anxiety

Black pepper oil is known to reduce anxiety and stress.  The peppery, musky aroma helps calm you down by soothing nerves and relaxing your muscles. Ultimately, this restores balance to your emotions and can improve your mood tremendously.

3.  Cleanses Your Body

The warming quality of black pepper essential improves circulation which works to help you both sweat and urinate.  Your natural eliminatory system works to remove excess fats, salt, water, urea and uric acid from your body.  Uric acid is associated with joint pain, arthritis and gout.

Your body can become toxin-free, helping you feel that much healthier as you lose weight and lower your blood pressure.  Glucose tolerance and liver function may improve too.

4. Stimulates Appetite

Black pepper essential oil has a unique peppery smell, which helps stimulate your appetite.   Inhaling black pepper essential oil also activates the part of your brain called the insula orbitofrontal cortex, which assists your swallowing movement.  This is especially helpful for people who have suffered strokes or have difficulty swallowing.

5. Fights Germs

Black pepper oil is antibacterial, antifungal and antimicrobial, which makes it a great choice for cleaning.  Blend it with citrus oils in your favourite green cleaning recipe.

Inhaling Black Pepper oil is useful for preventing viral infections such as colds and flu.  It also helps clear upper respiratory infections.  Or apply it to a congested chest to help loosen mucus so that you can cough it up more easily.

6. Aids Digestion

For those of you with digestive issues, inhaling black pepper essential oil can help stimulate your digestive system.  Massaging your stomach with a black pepper oil blend can improve indigestion, nausea, diarrhoea, constipation and excess gas.  If you are suffering constipation or dealing with symptoms of IBS, black pepper essential oil can help with that too.

7.  Improves Skin

Black pepper essential oil is power-packed with antioxidants which protect your body from free radicals that cause aging and disease.  It also helps to reverse free radical damage already done. The warming quality of black pepper essential oil improves circulation.  This boosts cell pregeneration and collagen production which helps decrease the appearance of fine lines.  It also allows your skin to heal blemishes and bruises more quickly.