Red Myrtle essential oil

Discover Organic Red Myrtle essential oil, 5 ml from Dr.Valnet.

Why use Dr.Valnet Red Myrtle essential oil?

Red Myrtle essential oil is renowned for its well-being properties and helps improve circulation for fresh, light legs.

Myrtle, a shrub found throughout the Mediterranean, was widely used for spiritual purposes and well-being during Antiquity. Today, red myrtle is mainly prized for its essential oil, an elixir useful for the comfort of the respiratory tract and circulation.

How to use Dr.Valnet Red Myrtle essential oil?

Red Myrtle essential oil is preferably used in diluted skin application. Ingestion must be done on medical advice, particularly for children, because this oil may present risks of kidney toxicity in high doses and/or over a long period of time.

Be sure to seek medical advice before using pure Red Myrtle essential oil for people with asthma.

Seek medical advice for people with epilepsy due to the epileptogenic risk presented by this essential oil in high doses.

Do not use by ingestion in children without medical advice.

Skin application

Red Myrtle essential oil is irritating to the skin, so it must be diluted to 20% in a vegetable oil before any skin application (20% essential oil with 80% vegetable oil).

In broadcast

Pregnant women and babies over 3 months can use this essential oil in diffusion.

What is Dr.Valnet Red Myrtle essential oil?

Myrtus communis

(myrtaceae family)

Some notions of botany

Native to the Mediterranean basin, red myrtle is a shrub 2 to 3 meters high that can live for more than 250 years. In the wild, it grows in the Corsican scrubland, dry and very sunny. Its stems are covered with red bark, its evergreen leaves are oval and leathery and its flowers are very fragrant. While belonging to the same species as green myrtle, red myrtle grows in different conditions in terms of season, soil, climate, altitude, humidity and sunshine. It is widely used in Corsica, Sicily and Sardinia to flavor game but also to flavor a local liqueur. The taste of its berries is close to that of juniper and its leaves to those of rosemary.

A little history

In many religions, red myrtle is a sacred symbol forming part of certain spiritual rituals, linked to the Divine or considered the Tree of Paradise. Also a symbol of love, purity and beauty in many legends of the Mediterranean basin, it is associated with the goddess of love, Aphrodite or Venus in Greek and Roman mythology. Thus, on their wedding day, the young couple wore myrtle wreaths.

In ancient Greece, those initiated into the mysteries of Dionysus crowned their foreheads with myrtle, because, according to legend, the god offered myrtle, one of his favorite plants, to bring his mother out of the Underworld.

Dr.Valnet Red Myrtle essential oil: technical sheet