Pistacia Lentiscus Mastic Oil

Uses

Mastic tree carrier oil can be used as an ingredient in your blends to make:

• Facial care serums and oils

• Light legs oils

• Repairing balms

Soothing creams

Circulating body lotions

• Massage oilsDecongesting eye contour care for dark circles and puffiness

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Instant recipes by Aroma-Zone

Step 1

Prepare the mixture in a 30 ml glass dropper bottle.

Step 2

Apply a few drops of the mixture to the face once or twice a day.

Step 1

Mix all the ingredients together in a 5 ml glass roll-on.

Step 2

Apply the roll-on to the area with dark circles, then gently massage in by patting skin.

Synergies

• To combat redness and rosacea: Calophylla inophylla carrier oil, essential oils of helichrysum italicum, Mediterranean cypress, gum rockrose.

• To soothe and repair irritated or damaged skin: Oat, camelina and kukui carrier oils, fine lavender, spike lavender and German chamomile essential oils, calendula and pomegranate CO2 extracts, bisabolol cosmetic active ingredient.

Uses

Kabylian lentisk oil can be used as an ingredient in your blends to make:

• Decongestant oils

• Light legs lotions

• Lymphatic massage balms

• Joint massage oils

Instant recipe by Aroma-Zone

Step 1

Mix the ingredients in a 50 ml glass bottle with pump for cream.

Step 2

Massage this oil into the legs, working upwards from the ankles.

Synergies

For light leg products: tamanu carrier oil, Mediterranean cypress, mastic tree, peppermint, Italian helichrysum essential oils, crystal menthol cosmetic active ingredient, butcher's broom and red grapevine extracts.

Uses

Kabylian lentisk oil can be used as an ingredient in your blends to make:

• Anti-dandruff oil

• Fortifying hair serum

• Oil bath before shampooing

Quick recipe from Aroma-Zone

Step 1

Make the mixture in a small dish.

Step 2

Massage into the scalp, leave for around 30 minutes and then shampoo.

Synergies

• To combat dandruff: Carrier oil of Nigella, Chaulmoogra, Laurel Berry, essential oils of Bay Laurel, Palmarosa, Patchouli, Cade Juniper, and Neem Powder, Nagarmotha and Tulsi powders.

• To strengthen hair and stimulate growth: castor, Coconut, carried oils of castor, Coconut and Nigella, Brahmi & Bhringaraj macerated oils, essential oils of grapefruit, Atlas Cedar, Bay Rum Tree, powder of Horsetail, nettle, Amla, Brahmi, Bhringaraj.

Culture

Foraged

Quality

100% pure and natural, virgin, without any refining or chemical treatment, cosmetic quality.

Production process

First cold pressing of mastic tree berries

Part of the plant used

Fruit

Botanical name

Pistacia lentiscus

Botanical family

Anacardiaceae

Function

Cosmetic ingredients

Other names

Lentisk or mastic

INCI name

Pistacia lentiscus fruit oil

Oxidative potential

Not very sensitive

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Organoleptic properties

• Appearance: liquid to pasty oil, even semi-solid depending on temperature (may show a slight pulpy deposit)

• Colour: yellow-green to green-brown

• Odour: characteristic, powerful, with peppery aromatic notes of mastic tree

• Feel: fairly rich

Storage

Stable carrier oil. Store in a dry place away from heat and light.

Precautions

• Keep out of reach of children.

• Due to its essential oil content, do not apply to the eyes or mucous membranes.

• This oil can be used diluted (50% max) on the eye area (bags, puffiness), placing the mixture in a roll-on bottle to avoid the risk of the oil running into the eyes (risk of stinging).

Warning

The properties, indications and methods of use described above are derived from scientific literature and/or reference books or websites in aromatherapy, hydrolatherapy and phytotherapy. This general information is provided for informational purposes only and cannot under any circumstances be considered as medical information. This information cannot under any circumstances replace a diagnosis, consultation or medical follow-up, nor engage our liability.

S. Djedaia, Etude physico-chimique et caractérisation du fruit de la plante lentisque (Pistacia Lentiscus L.), thèse de doctorat, Universtité Badji Mokhtar-Annaba, 2016-2017.

G. Bensalem,; L'huile de lentisque (Pistacia lentiscus .) dans l'est Algérien : caracétristiques physico-chimiques et composition en acides gras, mémoire de Magister en Sciences, Université Constantine 1 Institut de la nutrition, de l'alimentation et des techniques agroalimentaires, 2014-2015.

F. de Lanfranchi, M. Bui Thi, M. Girard, La fabrication d'huile de lentisque (Linsticu ou chessa) en Sardaigne, Journal d'agriculture traditionnelle et de botanique appliquée, Revue d'ethnobiologie, 1999, vol. 41 (2) : 81-100.