Palo Santo Essential Oil 10ml – 100% Pure, Premium Grade & Wild Harvested

Palo Santo Premium Grade Pure Essential Oil - Wild Harvested - ( As organic as it can get!) Harvested in such a way that the trees are hand selected and cleared sustainably only selecting from naturally fallen trees in keeping with the sacred wood selection. This oil is purchased from a sustainable managed forest in South America who promote well being incense and oils. The wood that is harvested is from downed trees not live trees cut and sold for their value. One of the unique properties of Palo Santo is its healing and cleansing properties which make the way the wood is sourced so important.

This shaman's sacred incense revered as frankincense has been used by Shaman's, Qero and Indigenous people of the Andes for its purifying and spiritual cleansing properties.

What is Palo Santo?

Palo Santo (Bursera graveolens), meaning "Holy Sacred Wood," is closely related to Frankincense, Myrrh, and Copal. This sacred tree, native to South America, has been revered for centuries for its powerful cleansing and purifying properties. The wood is naturally dried, sometimes kiln-dried, before being processed into incense sticks, incense cones, or cold-water distilled into pure essential oil and gum resin incense.

Ethically wild-harvested and honoured, Palo Santo plays a vital role in sustainability. The tree is never cut down while alive but sourced from naturally fallen trees. Sustainable replanting and reforestation programs are in place, supporting local communities and ensuring the preservation of the species for future generations.

Its natural fragrance offers uplifting scents of citrus, pine, and mint, filling any space with a calming energy. Traditionally used by shamans and indigenous peoples of the Andes, Palo Santo continues to be valued for its spiritual and holistic benefits.

Our Palo Santo wood incense and 100% pure essential oil

Comes from sustainably managed plantations in South America. These plantations not only work with the environment but also support local economies. Trees are allowed to grow for 10-20 years, and only after naturally falling and resting on the forest floor for several years are they harvested, allowing the sacred tree's essence to cleanse and rejuvenate its surroundings.

Appearance

Palo santo is a highly resinous wood incense. The appearance can change depending on the time, method and part of the tree the incense came from and how it was dried. Typically, the wood incense sticks are used in rituals and ceremony to cleanse away negative energies and spirits.

Benefits of Palo Santo & Uses

Sustainably harvested Pure Palo Santo Oil comes from the heartwood of the Palo Santo tree which is naturally downed within a Pachamama Alliance country committed to preserving, managing and maintaining for future generations. Our Palo Santo Oil is extracted by vapour distillation using natural processes from fallen branches.

It helps promote relaxation, calm the mind, uplift low moods, and stimulate creativity. Additionally, it reduces anxiety and stress, restoring balance to the body, mind, and soul.

• Healing & Cleansing: Used for clearing negative energy, relieving stress, and balancing emotions. It also has anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, and antiseptic properties

• Spiritual Rituals: Perfect for meditation, prayer, or ceremony. Palo Santo enhances creativity, promotes relaxation, and raises positive vibrations.

• Sustainable Harvesting: The oil is ethically sourced from managed forests, ensuring that only fallen trees are harvested, preserving the natural balance.

How to Use:

• Incense: Burn as a smudge stick or use the essential oil in an aroma diffuser to cleanse spaces and elevate spiritual rituals.

• Aromatherapy: Add a few drops to lotions or diffusers for emotional relief, protection, and spiritual purification.

• Use of incense or essential oil will vary on the practice. Generally used in holistic spiritual clearings and cleansing practices, by Qero and Jungle shamans to cleanse and purify. Used to remove heavy or intrusive spirit energies stuck or dormant.

Who use's Palo Santo?

The essential oil is used by Qero Shamans, holistic practices, in aromatherapy by therapists, it is used to anoint, blessings and rituals, mesa cleansing and purifying, munay ki rites of passage or used in an aroma oil burner diffuser.

What does Palo Santo smell like?

Palo Santo has a rich, aromatic citrus scent with underlying notes of wood and spice. When burned, it produces a black flame initially and smoulders white once the flame is blown out.

The after smell is aromatic and pleasant once the incense has extinguished.

The aroma is known for its powerful properties, including antiseptic, anti-bacterial, and anti-inflammatory effects. It's also widely used as a natural insect repellent in summer, for purifying spaces and individuals, offering protection, and clearing negativity. Its fragrance enhances the vibration for prayer, meditation, journeying, ritual, and ceremony.

Why is Palo Santo problematic? Palo Santo has been added to the Convention on International Trade's Endangered Species List due to the increased demand. This tree requires proper harvesting methods, which includes allowing the trees to die naturally and laying them on the forest floor. All our Palo Santo comes from ethical and sustainable plantations that care and preserve the future of this popular incense. The word organic is tricky. Plantations tend to not desire to pay for these style of licence to proof what is natural to them.

Should you burn Palo Santo? Is Palo Santo Bad for you and should you inhale it?

Palo Santo is widely revered for it's cleansing, purifying and healing abilities. Widely used as an incense stick which is burned. Essential oil that is in it's pure form and resin like oil gum. Like any incense precautions should be taken and it should never be in-hailed. Good safe incense practices should apply as too all incenses. Well ventilated areas when using the incense as a smudge stick.

This Sacred Wood has been traditionally used for centuries by the Inca, Shaman and Indigenous people of the Andes across South America for its unique qualities.

A mystical tree: The Palo Santo Tree is found in South America, Central and South Coast of America in the Amazon Rain-Forest, a rich fragrant woody citrus aroma with Pine, Lemon and Mint tones which fills the air weather lit or not with a powerful, uplifting scent raising the vibration and mood wherever it is used. Traditionally it was used to appease the Gods and cleanse spirits, widely used for plant-medicine ceremonies, warding off heavy unwanted energies, purifying and cleansing any space or individual whilst creating a protective sacred space enhancing creativity and bringing good fortune to those that believe in its magic!

Sustainability:

The plantations we work with are clear about their ethics and integrity of the products that are Wild Harvested, apart of this sustainability is working ecologically with the area of natural interest.

Ecology:

The re-ecology and re-forestation program is such that future generations are protected. 

Palo Santo Incense Information: In 2006, Peru placed Bursera graveolens under protection, prohibiting the cutting of live trees and allowing only for the collection of naturally fallen or dead trees”. This regulation ensures that Palo Santo wood sourced from Peru has been harvested through sustainable and ethical means.

PALO SANTO: USES, BENEFITS AND HOW TO USE IT

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