Celery Essential Oil

Celery essential oil is renowned for its stimulating qualities on the body. Known for its lightening properties, Celery essential oil is used as a cosmetic active ingredient to clarify and unify the complexion.


History of Celery Essential Oil

First called "ache", which means "to grow in water" in reference to the habitat of the plant, celery designated a fairly large group of plants including parsley and lovage. It was not until the 17th century that it designated a specific plant, supposed to be under the influence of the moon and presenting aphrodisiac properties.

Native to the Mediterranean basin, and more specifically to the saline marshes bordering the Mediterranean, celery was known to the ancient Greeks. The Egyptians, for their part, harvested the leaves, stems and seeds to season the dishes: the plant that we know today, with its waterlogged ribs, did not yet exist, it was epoch of a bouquet with poorly developed stems. In Asia, on the other hand, its seeds have long been taken for their medicinal properties. They are used to obtain the precious essential oil of celery.


Properties of Celery Essential Oil

The properties of Celery Essential Oil are explained by the presence of active compounds originally present in the seeds of Apium graveolens (Celery (cultivated), Sweet Celery, Sweet Ache, Marsh Ache, Marsh Parsley).

For health

Digestive tonic, carminative and laxative
Celery Essential Oil contains limonene which acts directly on gastric motility (the stomach's ability to move). It also has choleretic and cholagogue activity, that is, it promotes the production of bile by the liver and its release in the intestine, thus improving the digestion of fatty substances. Finally, it has a carminative action, that is to say, it promotes the expulsion of intestinal gases, while reducing their production.

Anticarcinogenic
Limonene is now recognized as an anticancer agent with real potential as a dietary anticancer tool in humans.


Antipigment
The phthalides contained in the oil allow it to act directly on the pigments, and in particular the brown spots.

Draining, detoxifying
The richness of celery in limonene and phthalides such as sedanolide participate in the accelerated detoxification of the body and help drain the urinary and biliary tracts.

Other properties:
Venous decongestant
Analgesic
Diuretic

For the well-being

Calming and sedative
Celery Essential Oil contains limonene and sedanolide, which have undeniable spasmolytic and anxiolytic properties. Limonene competes with certain neurotransmitters in the hippocampus, which regulates mood, lowers blood pressure, limits sleep onset and eases tension.

Other properties:
-Increases alertness
-Soothing