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, which simultaneously warms and cools the skin. As an inhalant, it feels cooling and helps maintain clear airways. It promotes awareness and concentration while also offering numerous 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-relieving properties. In fact, before the introduction of synthetic painkillers in the 1920s, wintergreen oil was regarded as one of the world's most effective essential oils for alleviating pain.
Interestingly, this plant is associated with multiple senses: smell, taste, touch, and hearing, including the perception of 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. Due to this, it was used in spiritual ceremonies, primarily in contexts where the sound was employed, such as meditations and chants. 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 with a left-brained (logical) approach 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