Botanical Name: Gaultheria procumbens is an evergreen shrub commonly known as wintergreen. 
 
Aromatic Description: Wintergreen Essential Oil has a strong, cooling, warming, refreshing, and clearing aroma. Wintergreen is most prized for its high methyl salicylate content, simultaneously warming and cooling effect on the skin. As an inhalant, it feels cooling and helps to maintain feelings of clear airways. It invokes awareness and concentration as well as has many physical benefits. Birch and wintergreen are the only plants that naturally contain methyl salicylate. Research has confirmed that these oils have cortisone-like effects that can quickly relieve pain. Birch and wintergreen were considered the best essential oils, known as "mother nature's aspirin, " because of their excellent natural pain remedies. In fact, before the introduction of synthetic painkillers in the 1920s, wintergreen oil was considered one of the world's best essential oils for treating pain.
Interestingly, this plant is associated with many senses: smell, taste, touch, and hearing (sound). Wintergreen essential oil can penetrate deep within the body, increasing the body's vibration and enhancing sound on all levels. The odour alone is said to do this. Because of this, it was used during spiritual ceremonies, primarily where the sound was used (meditations, chants, etc.). It restored harmony between the earth and its people through healing and awareness. This increase in vibration opens spiritual awareness and leads to the introspection of the divine and self-love. It will benefit those left-brained (logical) and must expand further into their intuitive side (right brain). Blend well with Mints, narcissus, oregano, thyme, vanilla and ylang-ylang. 
 
Extraction Method: Steam Distillation