velona Cedarwood Important Oil 4 Fl Oz | Therapeutic Grade 100% Pure and Pure | for Aromatherapy Diffuser, Therapeutic massage, Skincare, Haircare, Soapmaking

Minty Mint
Is it real mint? I think so. It certainly has that clean strong minty aroma, cooling sensation and sinus-opening effect often touted as mental clarity!I’m inclined to believe it’s pure but after reading somewhere that mint repels bees, I went out to my community garden where we farm bees smelling strongly of this stuff and the bees descended upon me quite fixedly, causing everyone to remark “What’s up with you and the bees?” I had to go home and wash off as much if it as I could, which wasn’t easy. So either this is not pure mint oil or that business about mint repelling the bees is pure bunk.I pat this oil very lightly on worn clothes to freshen them up between washings. I drop it into corners of rooms that need a lift. I mix it with white vinegar in a spray bottle and use it to clean surfaces around the house and to wipe out the refrigerator. I sometimes put it in a mist diffuser for aromatherapy. I also carry a small amount in a roll-on bottle, rub it in my palms and cup them over my nose if I need to clear my airways or block out some surrounding odor (homeless person on the subway, urine in the elevator, sweaty person on the bus, other people’s bad breath or BO). I love rubbing on the bottom of my feet at the end of the day.I’ve never had problems using this oil directly on my skin but I usually dilute it, especially if putting it on thin or sensitive skin. Often I simply mix it with unscented lotion.The bottle goes a long way and the oil retains its scent and potency for a long time.

Smells Exactly Like it Should
I bought this to use in my humidifier diffuser and it’s exactly the scent I was looking for. To be clear, if you use it in a water diffuser, it will smell like WET fresh cut cedar, not like aromatic dry cedar. (If you want the latter, buy some dry wood.)Will likely buy again, but 8 drops to 300ml is going to last quite awhile from the 4 Oz bottle.

Works as great ant repellent. Mix 1 oz. With 12 oz white vinegar.
Non toxic compared to toxic insect chemical repellent. Low price. Safe around counter tops near food. Less toxic to humans than western red cedar oil. Low price for essential oil.

No Rosemary scent – Industrial cleaner instead
Unless you want your home to smell like a quarantine zone for disease control – don’t buy. It’s horrible. This scent doesn’t remotely smell like Rosemary. It’s more like a pungent toxic cleaner. To get into the weeds of it, and after some Googling I found this. So, it’s not just my olfactory senses.Quora post by Marge Clark:”…there are several “chemotypes” of Rosemary. Hard to tell the difference if you are holding a fresh sprig, but when distilled, they are very different indeed.What you probably have is Rosemary Cineole,a major component of which is 1.8 cineole, a chemical which used to be called-wait for it-“Eucalyptol” because 1.8 Cineole is the major component in Eucalyptus globulus, Euc. radiata, Euc smithii…the eucalyptus varieties that you would say smell like Eucalyptus. And if two totally different plants yield oils with similar chemical components, they are going to smell at least somewhat the same. So what you have is Rosmarinus officinalis var Cineole.Another Rosemary oil that you might want to avoid is known as Rosemary camphor, Rosmarinus officinalis var Camphor. Again, a true Rosemary, but higher in Camphor. To my nose, the Rosemary oil that smells the closest to a fresh cut rosemary sprig is Rosmarinus officinalis var Verbenon, usually simplified as Rosemary Verbenon…”.After that, the only thing I do know, is that this particular brands distilled variety is not at all pleasant.