Neroli Essential Oil Benefits and Uses
​Neroli Essential Oil comes from the flower of the same tree that we get Wild Orange Essential Oil. If you’ve ever walked down the street and smelled orange blossoms, that is what Neroli Essential Oil smells like.
Neroli is a great choice to use if you are a person who tends to overthink things. It has a way of stopping that craziness and is very relaxing.
Neroli essential oil is the rarest of citrus oils. Its evocative aroma has citrus and floral notes. Helpful during times of stress, anxiousness, or discouragement, Neroli offers emotionally calming benefits.
Neroli is known as The Oil of Shared Purpose and Partnership.* It is a unifying and stabilizing oil and is particularly helpful for calming troubled hearts in relationship conflict.
Neroli can help with the negative emotions of feeling conflicted, restless, impatient, bitter, frustrated, unsympathetic, disloyal, dispassionate, sexual inhibition, aloof, unkind, stagnant, or blaming.
Neroli can help turn those negative emotions into the positive properties of feeling patient, empathetic, kind, tolerant, fidelity, calm, intimate, sexual desire, resilient, cooperative, and committed.*
*Source: Emotions and Essential Oils, 7th edition
Neroli ‘s Primary Benefits:
- Promotes a positive mood
- May help reduce feelings of anxiousness
- Soothes skin
- Encourages relaxation
Like Rose, Jasmine, and Melissa, Neroli oil is a highly precious floral oil due to high labor and low yield. Each tiny white neroli blossom must be hand-picked at the correct time in its flowering cycle and quickly steam distilled to extract the essential oil. It takes 40 pounds of freshly picked blossoms to create one 15 mL bottle of pure Neroli essential oil—or over 200 pounds of blossoms to distill five bottles of the oil!
Neroli can be worn as a perfume to encourage creativity and self-expression. It also encourages feelings of love and romance. Like Rose, Neroli is considered a complete and well-balanced fragrance by itself. It also blends well with other oils, including floral, wood, and citrus oils.
Neroli Essential Oil Uses
Neroli Essential Oil is a floral Essential Oil from the flower of the bitter orange tree. This oil has quickly ascended to the top of my favorites list because it is so incredibly calming to me. I am a very anxious person and it is fantastically calming!
Fun Fact: There are three essential oils that come from this tree! ​ Neroli comes from the flowers, Wild Orange comes from cold pressing the rind of the fruit, and Pettigrain (A.K.A. “man’s Lavender”) comes from the leaves and twigs! Wow!
So here’s a quick list of some of the uses for Neroli essential oil:
- Increase Libido
- Neroli can help cuts, scrapes, or scratches heal quicker
- Good for stress
- Soothing & calming
- Great for sleep
- Good for the digestive system (support a healthy inflammatory response)
- Can be used in the late stages of pregnancy for hormone balancing
- Improve hormone concentrations in body during menopause
- Helps bad cells to die so that new healthy cells can grow
- Promote a positive mood
- May help reduce feelings of anxiousness
- Soothes skin
- Encourages relaxation
- Encourages feelings of intimacy
- Optimizing Cellular Health
- Helps regulate healthy cell production
- May regulate mTOR, an important regulator of cell death
- Can be used by women for targeted cellular support
This Essential Oil has quickly become one of my favorites! I keep the roller with me and use it for calming my anxious feelings that I get throughout the day.
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Dawn Goehring
Dawn Goehring is the founder of Desert Naturals where she writes educational articles on essential oils, DIY’s on natural beauty products, homemade cleaners, and provides related essential oil accessories like planners, trackers, tshirts, and custom designed essential oil storage. She has been featured in articles on Porch.com, Redfin.com, MommyOnPurpose and more.
Dawn has earned an aromatherapist degree and has earned a doTERRA essential oil specialist certification which is a fancy way of saying she has learned a lot about the chemistry of essential oils and how they work in the body.