Tamanu Oil

Product Details Tamanu Oil: Uses, Benefits, and Blends Tamanu Oil has been used across Polynesian communities for skin healing and infections for hundreds of years. Once considered sacred for its incredible benefits, Tamanu Oil has a rather exotic and terrifying past. Principal constituents: Palmitic, stearic, and arachidic saturated fatty acids. Monounsaturated fatty acids consist of palmitoleic, oleic, and eicosenoic acids. Also rich in linoleic acids and contains a small percentage of alpha-linoleic acids. Native to East Africa, the Tamanu is a beautiful evergreen ornamental tree that grows from Southern coastal India to Australia. It is cultivated in many regions, however naturally spreads because its seeds are beloved by bats, which then deposit them and they drift across the sea and end up germinating on beaches. Once considered sacred because of its wealth of healing properties, cultivation dropped considerably with the advent of Christianity.  Tamanu trees are often planted ou