Black Pepper Organic Essential oil may vary from almost colourless to pale green, yellowing with age. The aroma is pleasantly warm, resembling fresh peppercorns, with a characteristic 'kick'. It is, as you would expect, very warming and a fairly strong rubefacient, though strangely it can be used to bring down high temperatures, when used in very small amounts.
Botanical Name: Piper Nigrum
Origin: Vietnam
Black Pepper oil is obtained by steam distillation of the dried, unripe berries with the outerskin (pericarp) removed and is particularly valuable in treating disorders of the digestive tract, for it is antispasmodic, carminative, tonic and stimulant.
Generally stimulating, this spicy oil has been used as a male aphrodisiac for more than three hundred years. Its gently warming action makes it useful in the treatment of any condition likely to respond to heat.
Specs
Flash point: 54°C
Vapour pressure: NA
Specific gravity (20ºC): 0.853 to 0.885
Optical rotation (20ºC): - 23 º to -1 º
Refractive index (20ºC): 1.475 to 1.493
GC/MS%
alpha-thujene 0.16, alpha-pinene 4.89, sabinene 0.53, beta pinene 7.94, myrcene 2.00, alpha phellandrene 5.20, 3-carene 25.46, alpha-terpinene 0.10, ortho-cymene 0.70, limonene 14.67, gamma-terpinene 0.20, alpha-terpinolene 0.31, terpinolene 0.89, alpha-terpinolene 0.19, beta fenchyl alcohol 0.12, delta-elemene 1.96, alpha-cubebene 0.35, beta-elemene 0.43, trans caryophyllene 30.8, alpha-guaiene 0.37, alpha-humulene 1.34, beta-selinene 0.46, alpha selinene 0.32, trans-4-diene-cadina-1(6) 0.19, caryophyllene oxide 0.22
