Organic Niaouli Essential Oil

The niaouli tree is native to Australia and New Caledonia, a French island collectivity 900 miles east of Australia. The Kanaks, New Caledonia’s indigenous peoples, peeled the tree’s bark and used it to swaddle infants and treat rheumatism, aches, and colds. The leaves were used for concoctions to heal wounds. The tree has a remarkable reputation as the island’s protector, as it purifies the water and was thought to ward off the malaria outbreaks that infiltrated surrounding regions. In other historical uses, this oil was applied in French hospital wards as an antiseptic. It has been an ingredient in mouthwashes and toothpastes, and is also included in the respiratory congestion medication Gomenol. The earliest written description of the plant may be the 1797 accounts of Antonio Jose Cavanilles, a Spanish botanist. Jules Garnier, a French industrialist, also discovered the tree while traveling and called it the “saddest but most useful of trees” in regards to its ugly appearance but in