If you need some warmth and soothing to help you relax your mind and open your heart, the essential oil sandalwood is what you need to help you. Not only is the aroma of sandalwood a very calming one, the oil itself is a natural antiseptic and preservative. This makes it useful in such products as soap, beauty creams, and other toiletries. Santalois are small molecules in sandalwood that kill bacteria as well as help you sleep since they are natural sedatives. Compounds known as tannins help to stop bleeding, fight infections, and heal damaged skin.

The essential oil sandalwood can also be used in a vaporizer or bath to ease bronchitis, wet coughs, stuffy noses, and diarrhea. Applied directly to the skin, it eases and soothes rashes and itchy skin. You can add a few drops to your beauty lotion and apply it that way. Using it like this will stretch your supply and make it last longer.

Sandalwood comes in other forms such as incense, scented candles, and joss sticks. When you burn the incense and candles, the aroma promotes a feeling of well being, peace and serenity. It can also help your skin and stomach by encouraging the production of gastric juices, thus easing nausea, gastritis and colic. Also, as the essential oil sandalwood is rather expensive, these forms of it may be more readily available to you than the oil.

When sandalwood is burned in the form of incense, joss stick, or candle, the aromatic smoke takes away melancholy and promotes a restful sleep. When combined with lavender or bergamot, it is an excellent stress reliever. A very special thing about sandalwood is that it is considered to be an aphrodisiac and can do a lot to put a couple “in the mood.” This makes sandalwood candles quite popular as enhancements of a romantic evening.

These are just a few of the many properties of the essential oil sandalwood. With a bit of study and experimentation, you may find a few uses on your own that fall outside of the typical ones that have been documented. That’s what your creativity is for once you have stocked up on your basic aromatherapy supplies. All you need to do is start playing around with the sandalwood oil and lotions or carrier oils. In no time at all you will have created something that smells delicious and makes you feel as if you are in your very special happy place.