Patchouli Essential Oil: Calming Effect For Skin and Mind

Hi Klevies! Did you know that Kleveru uses premium essential oils as our natural fragrance ingredients? Out of many varieties of essential oil contained in Kleveru products, one of our favorites is patchouli essential oil which not only has a distinctive aroma but also has several benefits for your skin. In this article, we are going to introduce you to patchouli essential oil.

Patchouli essential oil is an essential oil extracted from patchouli leaves which is an aromatic herbal plant. Patchouli has a distinctive aroma with characteristic notes such as woody, sweet and spicy. The significant aroma of patchouli essential oil makes it used a lot in perfumes and incense.

Citing from healthline.com, several anecdotal studies in recent years are actively investigating the variety of patchouli essential oil uses and benefits. As an outline, patchouli is often used for topical purposes and has special benefits for the skin. Here are some summaries of the benefits of patchouli essential oil for the skin!

Inhalation Uses

With its distinctive aroma, patchouli essential oil is very common to be used as aromatherapy using steam inhalation or diffuser. If you are not using any methods mentioned and choose to inhale the oil directly from your skin, diluting or mixing patchouli essential oil with any carrier oil is very much necessary.

The aroma released by patchouli essential oil can provide you with a calming effect, reducing stress and controlling your appetite. In some other cases, patchouli essential oil is also known to have pain-relieving effects.

The use of patchouli essential oil is quite flexible and it can be mixed with various essential oils and carrier oils and surely will enrich the spicy-herbs aroma to make it stronger and more distinct.

The Uses and Benefits for Skin

A study found that patchouli essential oil has a good potential to protect the skin from ultraviolet radiation; an object of the research covered in patchouli essential oil, when exposed to ultraviolet radiation has fewer line lines than any other research object. However, in this case, the researchers are still observing the protective effect of patchouli essential oil on human skin generally.

Other than that, one of the well-known benefits of patchouli essential oil is its anti-inflammatory effect. Swelling, redness, and any other signs of inflamed body and skin were found to improve after it’s treated with patchouli essential oil based on a study in 2017. Another study in 2016 found that patchouli essential oil can reduce the migration of neutrophil immune cells that trigger inflammation.

As we mentioned earlier, it is very important to make sure your essential oil like patchouli essential oil is diluted before you use it directly on your skin.

Don’t forget to always do a patch test when you want to apply patchouli essential oil with a carrier oil to see how your skin reacts to the product. Apply a few drops on a cotton pad or an absorbent cloth, place it on the inside of your forearm and leave it for 48 hours to see whether your skin shows any irritating or allergic signs or not.

If you are wondering whether it is safe to get your own patchouli essential oil and apply it to your skin, don’t worry! You can still get the benefits of patchouli essential oil from KLEVERU Centella and Spirulina Green Mask that is able to clean the skin optimally and treat acne-prone skin, as it is enriched with 11 anti-acne combos, and as you can guess, one of them is patchouli essential oil.

That’s not all! Centella and Spirulina Green Mask took benefits of French Green Clay, Kaolin and Bentonite, as well as AHA and BHA as its gentle exfoliator agents that will cleanse all the remaining dirt inside your pores at its fullest. Other ingredients such as Spirulina, Niacinamide, Centella Asiatica and Allantoin also act as anti-inflammatory agents. These benefits can optimize the healing of the skin inflammation which might lead you to redness, rashes, inflammation and very stubborn acne.

So, Klevies, are you interested in trying patchouli essential oil to be your dependable anti-acne agent?? Tell us your thoughts! ;)