Essential Oils for Anti-cancer:

The following essential oils contain anticancer properties:

Cancer is the second largest single cause of death claiming over six million lives worldwide every year. As such plant essential oils are currently receiving renewed interest for their therapeutic anticancer properties. Over five hundred papers have been published on anticancer activity of essential oils. Over a hundred essential oils from more than twenty plant families have been tested on more than twenty types of cancers in last past ten years. In fact the effects of essential oils has been investigated on glioblastoma, melanoma, leukemia and oral cancers, as well as on bone, breast, cervix, colon, kidney, liver, lung, ovary, pancreas, prostate, and uterus cancers.

The following are a few essential oil bearing plants studied for anticancer potential:

  • Agarwood Crasna (OUD)

    Agarwood Crasna (OUD)

    (Aquilaria crassna)

    Aroma Description: Bitter-sweet woody with animalic notes and a leather character.

  • Agarwood Subintegra

    Agarwood Subintegra

    (Aquilaria subintegra)

    Aroma Description: Deep, woody, earthy, musky-warm/animalic-like aroma with hints of deep cherry cola and vanilla.

  • Black Seed

    Black Seed

    (Nigella sativa)

    Aroma Description: Bland, Mild, Earthy, Peppery/Spicy, Woody

  • Clove

    Clove

    (Syzygium aromaticum)

    Aroma Description: Rich, spicy, sweet, soft, warming yet slightly bitter. It is also slightly woody in character and is reminiscent in aroma to that of true clove buds but is of course much stronger in aroma.

  • Dalmatian Sage

    Dalmatian Sage

    (Salvia officinalis)

    Aroma Description: Dalmatian Sage Essential Oil smells herbaceous, fruity, fresh and camphorous.

  • Fir Balsam - Canada

    Fir Balsam - Canada

    (Abies balsamea)

    Aroma Description: Balsamic, Coniferous, Fresh, Piney, Warm, Woody

  • Frankincense

    Frankincense

    (Boswellia sacra)

    Aroma Description: Balsamic, Earthy, Resinous, Slightly sweet, Warm

  • Katrafay

    Katrafay

    (Cedrelopsis grevei)

    Aroma Description: Has a sharp green, moss scent. Definitely a fresh green grassy slight cucumber scent

  • Lavender Stoechas

    Lavender Stoechas

    (Lavandula stoechas)

    Aroma Description: Camphoraceous, Slightly floral

  • Lemon Balm

    Lemon Balm

    (Melissa officinalis)

    Aroma Description: Fresh, Herbaceous, Lemony

  • Marjoram

    Marjoram

    (Origanum majorana)

    Aroma Description: Herbaceous, sweet, woody and has an underlying delicate floral note.

  • Mastic

    Mastic

    (Pistacia lentiscus)

    Aroma Description: Balsamic, Earthy, Herbaceous, Pungent, Resinous, Rich, Slightly bitter, Slightly musky, Slightly spicy, Strong, Warm, Woody

  • Pink Peppercorn

    Pink Peppercorn

    (Schinus molle)

    Aroma Description: Pink Peppercorn Essential Oil smells crisp, fresh and peppery.

  • Rosemary

    Rosemary

    (Salvia rosmarinus)

    Aroma Description: Fresh, herbaceous, sweet, and slightly medicinal

  • Tea Tree

    Tea Tree

    (Melaleuca alternifolia)

    Aroma Description: Medicinal, fresh, woody, earthy and herbaceous.

  • Thyme

    Thyme

    (Thymus vulgaris)

    Aroma Description: Cool, fresh, lemony, slightly citrus, slightly floral, soft, herbaceous and slightly medicinal

  • White Verbena

    White Verbena

    (Lippia alba)

    Aroma Description: Pleasant, slightly floral, citrusly, and astringent aroma