Coffee Essential Oil

Scientific name- Coffea arabica

Origin- India

Method of production- Steam distilled

Color- Yellow

Aroma- Fruitier, acidic, and floral

Coffee plants are classified under the genus Coffea, which is an evergreen shrub that grows in numerous places around the world.

Coffee beans is the main source of Coffee essential oil, Its  invigorating aroma of recently brewed coffee fills our minds with pleasant smell, coffee essential oil is world’s most popular aroma therapy which also has an uplifting smell that lifts the spirit, improves respiration, energizes the body and mind and offers many other uses and health benefits.

The chemical constituents of arabica coffee involve phenolic compounds and their derivatives (such as chlorogenic acids), alkaloids (especially caffeine), diterpenoid alcohols (such as cafestol and kahweol), carbohydrates, lipids, and volatile and heterocyclic compounds. This is because coffee oil has complex chemical components such as caffeine, palmitate acid, linoleic acid, stearic acid, sterol, tocopherol, phosphatide, diterpene, ceramide and its different components which have been demonstrated in biological activities.

Key Benefits

1. Coffee oil is packed with antioxidants that helps protects you skin from free radical damage.
2. Coffee oil has similar effects on the skin as the anti-aging skincare ingredient hyaluronic acid.
3. Coffee oil can increase collagen and elastin, making the skin look and feel firmer.
4. It also induces hair growth and helps in detangling rough hair.
5. The abundance of caffeine in coffee plays a crucial role in reducing the appearance of cellulite on the skin.
6. Several researches claim that scrubs containing caffeine dilates the blood vessels below the skin and improves blood flow, thus reducing the dimpled-appearance of the skin.
7. Antioxidants, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory, coffee essential oil play a key role in treating skin infections and inflammatory conditions like acne, pimples, etc.
8. Being a natural exfoliant, the products help to clean the skin pores by removing dead skin cells and accumulation of dirt and grime particles from the skin pores.
9.  It also prevents infections in the sebaceous glands and thus reduces redness and pain at the site of the skin breakout.
10. It prevents damaging of the hair and promotes hair growth.
11. Coffee helps stimulate hair follicles which fight hair loss and make your hair thicker and stronger.
12. Coffee is useful for treating dry, damaged, and unmanageable hair.
13. The grainy texture of coffee helps improve the blood circulation in the scalp.