Description of Cassia Essential Oil

Cassia essential oil has a strong, spicy, warm and wood-like resinous scent with an intensely sweet, somewhat balsamic-undertone similar to cinnamon. The oil is dark brown in color. Its bark is steam distilled together with the leaves, stalks, twigs and waste material of the Cassia tree

USE WITH CAUTION IN AROMATHERAPY. See "Specific Safety Information."

Safety information for Cassia Essential Oil

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Specific Safety Information: USE WITH CAUTION in aromatherapy. Cassia essential oil is non-toxiic. However, it is irritating to the skin and can cause sensitisation. The oil contains 75-90% cinnamaldehyde that is the cause of the cassia's potent dermal sensitiser and irritant. See essential oil Safety by Robert Tisserand and Tony Balacs, published by Churchill Livingstone in 1995 page 204.