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How to Use Copaiba Essential Oil

January 26, 2021 by Emma Carter 2 Comments

copaiba essential oil usesCopaiba essential oil is mainly used for pain relief, treating inflammation and wounds, and natural beauty care. In emotional aromatherapy, it addresses stress and anxiety.

While Copaiba is not as popular as perhaps Lavender or Peppermint oil, it is a powerful addition to your essential oils library.

To help you start using your bottle of Copaiba, I have collected my favorite copaiba essential oil recipes. You’ll learn how to use the oil topically as part of DIY recipes, or in a diffuser.

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Contents

  • Where does Copaiba Essential Oil come from?
  • Copaiba Essential Oil Benefits
  • How to Use Copaiba Essential Oil
  • Copaiba Essential Oil Recipes
    • Copaiba Acne Tonic
    • Uplifting Copaiba Blend
    • Copaiba Mouth Wash
    • Copaiba Relaxing Bath
  • Copaiba Buying Tips
    • Final Thoughts

Where does Copaiba Essential Oil come from?

Copaiba essential oil is steam distilled from the sap or resin of a South American leguminous tree, the Copaiba tree. Its latin name is Copaifera reticulata, which belongs to the Caehhsalpinaceae family.

Interestingly, Copaiba trees can yield 40 litres per year individually. That is 12,000 liter per hectare! The tapping to harvest Copaiba oil is completely harmless to the tree. This is why production of Copaiba oil is still continuous and sustainable.

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Copaiba Resin

Copaiba is yellow to yellow amber in color, and is slightly viscous in nature.

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Folk medicine of North and north eastern Brazilian peoples used Copaiba oil to treat several diseases like sore throats, tonsil infections and bronchitis, as well as many other inflammatory disorders. It was either induced orally, or used as an ointment.

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Recent studies have revealed that the advantages of Copaiba are due to its anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and anti-hemorrhagic properties. Some people use Copaiba oil as an insect repellent. People in the Peruvian Amazon near Iquitos do so. Amazonians also use Copaiba balm for healing wounds, anti-inflammatory uses, and relieving pain. After possibly choosing CBD for pain relief, Copaiba is the next oil I reach for when trying to treat general aches and pains in a natural way.

Copaiba Essential Oil Benefits

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Why use Copaiba? What is it for anyway? Here are some of the benefits Copaiba essential oil may offer you:

  • This essential oil helps tighten up skin and ease wrinkles, as a result, making one’s skin look younger. At times, it also makes the skin itself stronger, therefore ascertains protection from developing lesions or wounds while the skin is getting old.
  • Alongside its effects against skin aging, it amazingly eradicates blisters, marks and pimples. Yes, Copaiba can be applied to scars for faster healing and to lessen scar visibility!
  • While wonderfully altering the skin physically, Copaiba has beta-caryophyllene as its main component, which has cardiovascular and immune benefits, and additionally contains analgesic or pain-killing properties.
  • Beta-caryophyllene is also responsible for booting out one’s stress through controlling the individual’s reaction to irritation and triggers.
  • Copaiba provides liberation from physical pain, without any psychoactive side effects like marijuana (which also has beta-caryophyllene). The other popular natural pain-relieving remedy is CBD oil.
  • Another compound found in Copaiba oil is humulene, which plays its role in healing wounds. Copaene, which is an antioxidant and microorganism-fighter, is also found in Copaiba essential oil.
  • Plus, with Copaiba’s delicate fragrance, it may also work well as a perfume, and even in everyday products such as soaps, creams and lotions.
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How to Use Copaiba Essential Oil

Amazingly, Copaiba essential oil also has another use: being an intensifier. How? It further enhances effects of other essential oils like Ylang-Ylang, Vanilla, Citrus oils, and Sandalwood, Jasmine, Rose and Frankincense. Using them together may create greater impacts on a person’s health.

Some apply a 2% dilution of Copaiba oil on the soles of their feet for a relaxed and deep sleep (which is what stressed people need). Get the complete guide to dilution rates here, and learn about carrier (or base) oils, here. Never apply essential oils directly on your skin, which is also referred to as applying them neat.

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Some more ways include:

  • Using a few drops in a diffuser
  • Dilute oil with fractionated coconut oil  for topical application anywhere (use up to 3 times daily)
  • Ingest low dose of two drops in a vegetable capsule (DO NOT swallow directly)
  • Add 1-2 drops to an existing skin cream or lotion to act as a general moisturizer

Remember that too much essential oils can also be detrimental to your health.

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Copaiba Essential Oil Recipes

Here are a few recipes you can use Copaiba oil with and enjoy various benefits.

Copaiba Acne Tonic

copaiba essential oil for acne recipeYou can make your own tonic to help treat acne faster and reduce the visibility of blemishes.

  • 2 oz Witch Hazel
  • 2 drops Copaiba oil
  • 4 drops Frankincense oil
  • 3 drops Lavender oil
  • 1 drop Carrot Seed oil

Combine all ingredients in a bottle. It’s preferred to use a bottle that’s about two ounces (15 mL). Make sure that the bottle is sterilized before filling it, to ensure it is clean and safe. Seal with a cap or dropper. When using, apply drops on cotton ball and directly apply on the affected area of skin.

Uplifting Copaiba Blend

  • 15 drops Copaiba essential oil
  • 20 drops Grapefruit essential oil

Combine oils in a glass bottle and keep away from light and heat. Use in a diffusion session which is every two hours, with 7 drops per session. Diffusion must be in a well-ventilated room, and does not last longer than half an hour at a time. Diffusing Copaiba oil helps to relieve tension, stress and anxiety, depression, and fatigue.

Copaiba Mouth Wash

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  • 3 oz or 90 ml Peppermint hydrosol (floral water)
  • 30 drops Copaiba essential oil
  • 15 drops Clove essential oil

Combine all ingredients and as use like your regular mouthwash for a few minutes. This helps protect your teeth and freshen the breath. Do not swallow as this may be full of bacteria and residues.

Copaiba Relaxing Bath

Having a good bath with drops of Copaiba helps in letting the oil seep into the skin, while you breathe in its steam. Use this basic essential oil bath salts recipe here and replace the drops of essential oils mentioned, with Copaiba. Make sure to use the additionally recommended Jojoba oil for extra skin-soothing properties!

Copaiba Buying Tips

When buying Copaiba, please ensure its quality and safety for your health by buying from a reputable and established essential oil company. Spend some time to find out if the seller of the product is trustworthy, because that makes all the difference. Sticking with a company you have done business with in the past is a recommendation.

When buying, you must also consider a few more things:

  • The essential oil must have its Latin name on the label, whether they are officinalis, langsdorfii or reticulata. You may check on the individual chemical composition of each of these oils. Correspondingly, there should always be a mention of the country where the oil is made.
  • Since essential oils dissolve plastic and often oxidize in direct light and heat, see to it that it is packaged in a dark colored glass bottle. Of course, it should be oil that is steam distilled and definitely not Copaiba’s bark itself.
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Final Thoughts

Isn’t it amazing how Copaiba oil effectively impacts physical, mental and emotional health? This essential oil definitely deserves its own space within your cabinet for beauty and health.

Nevertheless, it is always recommended to check with your medical professional to see what specific essential oils may be deemed suitable for you and your particular overall health condition. Especially in situations when you are pregnant, nursing a child, taking another medication, or having a medical condition, do your own due diligence before using Copaiba essential oil.

To your well-being,

emma essential oil haven


References
¹ Copaiba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copaiba

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About Emma Carter

As I'm getting started with essential oils for more natural well-being in my life, I hope to provide you with many valuable resources, tips, tricks and reviews to help you do the same. My essential oils journey has evolved over the past 5 years and I am now also studying to become a Certified Aromatherapist!

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  1. Diane

    March 10, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    I’m starting to take copaiba in a capsule. How many times a day are recommended ?

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  2. John Bierman

    January 9, 2020 at 11:00 am

    Hi. I found your article on Copaiba Essential Oil interesting and helpful. I recently had a knee replacement. Adding Copaiba Essential Oil to my pain reduction I’m looking forward to. I also found the other uses of Copaiba Essential Oil fun to know. Where Copaiba comes from was interesting.
    Thank You. John

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