Spiritual and Mood Benefits of Sandalwood Essential Oil
Calming . Healing . Grounding
Santalum album
Sandalwood and the Chakras
Root Chakra: Sandalwood is grounding, stimulates the pituitary and pineal gland, alleviates mental confusion with its calming effect.
Third Eye Chakra: Sandalwood helps focus the third eye for spiritual meditation, spiritual sight and spiritual focus.
Aroma
A base note with a deep yet soft floral and woody aroma, it has an exotic alluring balsamic sweet scent.
Benefits
Sandalwood essential oil is an antipyretic, antiseptic, antiscabetic, and has diuretic properties.
Main chemical constituents
Sesquiterpenic alcohols, α-santalol, β-Santalol.
*Indian sandalwood is one the most expensive woods because of its cosmetic and therapeutic value.