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Carrot Seed Essential Oil Benefits and Uses in Aromatherapy

With its cleansing, revitalizing, nourishing, and toning properties, the main carrot seed essential oil benefits are to help the skin rejuvenate and repair itself and to encourage efficient elimination of toxins.

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Carrot seed essential oil is steam-distilled from the seeds and is different from carrot seed oil (sometimes called carrot oil), which is cold pressed from the seeds, or carrot-infused oil. You can use the pressed or infused oil as a carrier. Know what you are buying, as how you use an essential oil and a carrier oil is different.

Basic Carrot Seed Facts

Latin name: Daucus carota.

Plant family: Apiaceae.

Production: Steam distilled from the dried seeds of the carrot plant.

Aroma: Fruity, woody, a bit earthy.

Perfume/Aromatic note: Middle.

Is carrot seed safe to use during pregnancy? No, and do not use while breastfeeding, according to multiple sources.

Is carrot seed essential oil safe for children? Yes, ages 2+, properly diluted.

Main components:

carotol 36.1–73.1%
alpha-pinene 0.9–11.2%
dauca-4,8-diene 1.6–5.9%
beta-caryophyllene 0.7–5.6%
(E)-Dauc-8-en-4B-ol 1.7–4.1%

Source: Essential Oil Safety, 2nd Ed.

Carrot Seed Essential Oil Benefits

Physically, carrot seed restores hypotonic/weak terrain conditions, according to Aromatica: A Clinical Guide to Essential Oil Therapeutics, Vol. 2. The oil has affinity with the nervous, hepatobiliary (liver and gallbladder), digestive, urinary, and musculoskeletal systems.

Carrot seed has liver-stimulating properties, according to The Healing Intelligence of Essential Oils, and is a "premier oil" for chronic liver problems, according to Aromatica. Most sources mention the oil's positive effect on the liver, lymphatic function, circulation, and digestion.

For a liver tonic, The Complete Guide to Aromatherapy, Third Edition, Vol. 1, suggests blending the following essential oils with carrot seed: German chamomile, helichrysum, lemon, or rosemary ct. verbenone.

Other purported carrot seed essential oil benefits include helping relieve arthritis and rheumatism pain, water retention, and menstrual problems.

Skin Care

In skin care, the essential oil revitalizes skin tone and is especially useful for dry, damaged, or mature skin and hair. Use the oil for skin conditions such as wrinkles, dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, rashes, skin discoloration, acne, sun damage, and fungus.

For skin fungus, Aromatica suggests blending carrot seed with lemongrass and geranium essential oils.

For psoriasis and eczema relief, The Complete Guide to Aromatherapy suggests blending carrot seed with German chamomile, helichrysum, lavender, or sandalwood.

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Mental and Emotional Benefits of Carrot Seed Essential Oil

Psychologically, the essential oil stabilizes the mind and promotes integration, and also promotes stability, strength, and cognitive flexibility, according to Aromatica. "Carrot seed is for the individual who feels insecure, vulnerable and anxious, and mentally scattered, easily distracted, and distraught or fearful." You can also use the oil for loss of cognitive flexibility that shows up as chronic worry, repetitive thinking, or obsessions and compulsivity.

For chronic mental fatigue and depression, Aromatica suggests blending carrot seed with lavender and lemon or grapefruit essential oils.

Spiritual and Energetic Benefits of Carrot Seed Essential Oil

Carrot seed essential oil is used for visions and the realms that assist in vision quests, according to Aromatherapy for the Soul.

The essential oil strengthens inner vision and lets you perceive the highest truth in times of doubt or confusion, according to Subtle Aromatherapy, and removes blocks that prevent the free flow of energy, especially between the third (solar plexus) and fourth (heart) chakras.

Use carrot seed essential oil for sex magic and element magic, according to Mixing Essential Oils for Magic. The oil purifies ritual space, clears negativity, initiates change, and brings renewal.

Carrot Seed in TCM and Ayurveda

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the essential function of carrot seed essential oil is to nourish the Blood, resolve damp, and strengthen the Shen, according to Aromatica.

Aroma energy: sweet, woody
Movement: stabilizing
Warmth: neutral
Meridian tropism: Heart, Liver, Spleen
Five-element affinity: Wood, Earth

Ayurveda and Aromatherapy:

The rasa (taste) of carrot seed is sweet and pungent, the vipaka (aftertaste) is sweet, and the virya (energy) is heating and moisturizing.
The oil is balancing to all three doshas (vata, kapha, and pitta).
Tissues most affected by the oil are skin, lymphatic, liver, and GI tract.
Indications for this essential oil include abscesses, boils, skin disorders, liver and gallbladder disorders, colitis, and inflammation of the small intestine.

Carrot Seed Essential Oil Uses and Blends

To soothe sun-irritated skin, add a few drops of carrot seed essential oil to some aloe vera gel.

For a cuticle oil, blend 10 drops carrot seed and 2 tablespoons jojoba oil in a small dark, glass bottle. Use as needed. (Source: Organic Beauty With Essential Oil)

Reviving Body Oil

4 tablespoons carrier oil
10 drops carrot seed essential oil
6 drops basil ct. linalool essential oil
8 drops sweet orange essential oil

Combine the ingredients in a 2-ounce (60-ml) glass bottle. Shake gently. Use as a body moisturizer.

Source: Aromahead

Restorative Body Moisturizer

4 tablespoons (2 ounces) organic unscented lotion
10 drops carrot seed essential oil
5 drops neroli essential oil
2-ounce (60-ml) glass or PET plastic jar with a lid

Fill the empty jar with unscented lotion.
Drop essential oils directly into lotion.
Stir for at least one minute to blend.

Source: Essential Living

Whipped Body Butter

Makes 6 ounces.

2 tablespoons coconut oil
2 tablespoons jojoba oil
4 ounces (1/2 cup) shea butter
10 drops carrot seed essential oil
6 drops ginger essential oil
4 drops clove bud essential oil
Glass jar(s)

In a double boiler over low heat, melt the coconut and jojoba oils, stirring with a glass rod or stainless steel utensil.
Place the shea butter (cut into small chunks if needed) into a bowl.
Pour the melted oils over the shea butter to soften it.
Add essential oils and stir gently.
Cool the mixture in the refrigerator or freezer until a hard film forms on top.
Whip the mixture with an emulsion blender or electric mixer until light and fluffy.
Spoon into the jar(s).

Adapted from Aromatics

Skin Serum for Mature Facial Skin

1 tablespoon rosehip oil
1 tablespoon apricot kernel oil
6 drops carrot seed essential oil
5 drops frankincense essential oil
1 drop helichrysum essential oil
30-ml dropper bottle

Add the rosehip and apricot kernel oils to the dropper bottle.
Drop in the essential oils.
Close the bottle and gently shake to blend the oils.

To use: Massage 10 to 20 drops of the skin serum on your face and neck before bed.

Adapted from Cheryl Murphy, Certified Aromatherapist. "The Apiaceae Plant Family," NAHA Aromatherapy Journal, Spring 2017.1, p. 16.

About the Author

Carol Wiley is a retired massage therapist and freelance writer. She uses her deep interest in aromatherapy and essential oils to research their benefits and uses and bring you summaries and blends with links to more resources.

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