Product Profile of Tagetes Oil

Tagetes essential oil is extracted from tagetes minuta

• In a 5% dilution tagetes oil has been used to kill maggots in open wounds.

• The roots and seeds have been found to help rid the body of poisons.

• Tagetes is an ingredient of many foot treatment preparations and is also used extensively in french perfumes.

• Tagetes oil is valuable in keeping insects at bay, and can help with parasitic and fungal infestation.

• It could help with chest infections, coughs and catarrh, dilating the bronchi, facilitating the flow of mucus and dislodging congestion.

• Tagetes oil is useful in cases of skin infections, and has a healing effect on wound, cuts, calluses and bunions.