Black Pepper Essential Oil

Black Pepper Essential Oil Safety Info

Tisserand and Young note that using oxidized black pepper can lead to skin sensitization and that this oil should be stored in a refrigerator to slow the oxidation process. They also suggest adding an antioxidant to preparations containing black pepper essential oil. ~ Source:  Tisserand, Robert and Young, Rodney. Essential Oil Safety: A Guide for Health Care Professionals: Churchill Livingstone; 2 edition (December 2, 2013).  Reading the full profile for Black Pepper Essential Oil is highly recommended by your DeRu Extracts staff. 

While we’ve made this clear that we are selling this essential oil to use in your diffuser, your inhaler, or topically (diluted), it is a pure essential oil and can be used as such.  With all essential oils:

Oral Safety is only given because many people have been told to take oils internally.  Because several people look to us for safety advice, we feel obligated to offer those safety statements, although we do not believe anyone should be ingesting essential oils without being guided by an expert.  Experts will take your medical history into account before they suggest oils for you to ingest, diffuse, or use topically.

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1. A Review On Diversified Use of the King of Species: Piper Nigrum (Black Pepper)

http://ijpsr.com/bft-article/a-review-on-diversified-use-of-the-king-of-species-piper-nigrum-black-pepper/?view=fulltext

2. Antibacterial Activity and Mechanism of Action of Black Pepper Essential Oil on Meat-Borne Escherichia coli

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2016.02094/full

3. Antimicrobial activity and chemical constituents of essential oils and oleoresins extracted from eight pepper species

http://www.scielo.br/pdf/cr/v47n5/1678-4596-cr-47-05-e20160899.pdf

4. Chemical composition, antibiotic promotion and in vivo toxicity of Piper nigrum and Syzygium aromaticum essential oil

https://academicjournals.org/journal/AJBR/article-full-text/7C6B58766448

5. Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oils from Black Pepper, Cumin, Coriander and Cardamom Against Some Pathogenic Microorganisms

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312418226_Chemical_Composition_and_Antimicrobial_Activity_of_Essential_Oils_from_Black_Pepper_Cumin_Coriander_and_Cardamom_Against_Some_Pathogenic_Microorganisms

6. Chemical Composition, Nutritional, Medicinal And Functional Properties of Black Pepper: A Review

https://www.omicsonline.org/scientific-reports/srep172.php

7. Composition of Piper Nigrum L. Essential Oils Extracted by Classical Hydrodistillation and Microwave-assisted Hydrodistillation and Inhibitory Effect on the Corrosion of mild steel in hydrochloric acid

https://www.jmaterenvironsci.com/Document/vol7/vol7_N7/280-JMES-2104-Rmili.pdf

8. Could essential oils of green and black pepper be used as food preservatives?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273906151_Could_essential_oils_of_green_and_black_pepper_be_used_as_food_preservatives

9. Effects of Fragrance Inhalation on Sympathetic Activity in Normal Adults

https://naturalingredient.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/90_247.pdf

10. Efficacy of a smoking cessation intervention using the natural agents

http://internalmedicine.imedpub.com/efficacy-of-a-smoking-cessation-intervention-using-the-natural-agents.pdf

11. Evaluation of Synergistic Antibacterial and Antioxidant Efficacy of Essential Oils of Spices and Herbs in Combination

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131321

12. In Vitro Evaluation of Essential Oils Derived from Piper nigrum (Piperaceae) and Citrus limonum (Rutaceae) against the Tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (Acari: Ixodidae)

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bri/2017/5342947/

13. Isolation of Piperine and Few Sesquiterpenes from the Cold Petroleum Ether Extract of Piper nigrum (Black Pepper) and its Antibacterial Activity

http://impactfactor.org/PDF/IJPPR/5/IJPPR,Vol5,Issue2,Article5.pdf

14. Neuropathies: Essential oils show promising results in the fight against symptoms (research paper)

http://jonnsaromatherapy.com/pdf/Langley-Brady_Neuropathies_Essential_Oils_Show_Results_2012.pdf

15. Physicochemical Characteristics of Essential Oil of Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) Cultivated in Chittagong, Bangladesh

http://jfqhc.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-358-en.pdf

16. Studies on Essential Oil Composition of Cultivars of Black Pepper (Piper nigrum L.) – V

https://search.proquest.com/openview/8a851ee53bdb466b0e6e02c95cfe0dec/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=27436

Information provided has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

The International Federation of Aromatherapists does not recommend that Essential Oils be taken internally unless under the supervision of a Medical Doctor who is also qualified in clinical Aromatherapy. All cautions listed for individual oils do not include those cautions from ingestion.

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