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essential oils
May I ask some balm creams for muscle pains? Essential oils such as pine or sage helped. I have heard that red pepper essential oil is also good. Did essential oils help or are they marketing claims?
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Yes, some essential oils can help such as Peppermint and Capsacin. They contribute to the simultaneous cooling and warming effect. This sensation on the skin “tricks” the brain into focusing on the cooling/warming sensation as opposed to the pain.
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Essential oils can help. Common ingredients include menthol (usually extracted from Mentha arvensis (Field mint); also methyl salicylate - this can be synthetic (cheap) or natural as wintergreen oil (expensive option and only about 70% methyl salicylate). You will find products such as deep heat rely heavily on these two - you can include capsicum extracts, black pepper oil, camphor too.
These have such wide and common usage that you should not have difficulty sourcing or formulating with them
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I use an Australian Essential Oil called Kunzea in my muscle creams and balms and find from personal experience (and from friends I have shared my creams and balms with) it works - I use in conjunction with other EO’s but found that the addition of Kunzea improved the product a lot. Not sure where you are located or where you can buy as I buy here in Australia. Anyway research it and see what you think. Cheers
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Does it also keep your free of ticks? ????
Actually I was interested to hear you describe the scent.
Aloha.
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Yes I’m not sure about the ticks - my partner does use it for when he is the bush though and hasn’t had any ticks but can’t really say one way or the other - but if it does work for that too even better. It has a quite pleasant smell but I really can’t pin it down - it isn’t unpleasant anyway. I use other EO’s though to add to the scent (peppermint - also gives the cream that nice cool and soothing feeling, Lavender) so the finished product has a nice fragrance we think anyway. It isn’t a cheap EO but then again it isnt that expensive in the scheme of things. I kinda based my cream on a Kunzea Pain Relief cream made in Australia which retails for around $35 for 100ml and I make mine for around $5 plus cost of container and I like my cream much better and it absorbs into skin nicely so win win.
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Thank you very much to everyone who answered my question. Now I’m waiting for an essential oil of red pepper capsaicin with menthol crystals and essential oils of peppermint and black pine + capsaicin I think I’ll be ok?
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