Orange & Cinnamon Massage Oil, 500 ml

Orange & Cinnamon Massage Oil

Orange & Cinnamon Massage Oil is the seasonal oil in this range, and the cinnamon in it is not the one most people picture. Interesting fact: the label names Cinnamomum zeylanicum Leaf Oil, and cinnamon leaf and cinnamon bark are two different commercial materials with two different chemistries. Leaf oil runs roughly 70 to 83 percent eugenol with only a few percent cinnamaldehyde, while bark oil is dominated by cinnamaldehyde at around 75 percent. Eugenol is the molecule that makes clove smell like clove, so this reads warm and spicy and slightly clove-like, not like a cinnamon stick in mulled wine. Sweet orange sits on top of it in two forms, with grapefruit peel oil alongside, and grape seed and almond oils carry the whole thing. Tocopherol appears fourth on the list. Main benefits:

• Warm and spicy from eugenol, which is closer to clove than to cinnamon bark.
• Two sweet orange oils plus grapefruit, so the citrus is rounder than a single peel.
• Nine ingredients, four of them aromatic, where most oils in this range carry one.
• Seasonal without being a candle, so the scent lives on the skin and not in the air.

How the product works: The citrus oils are cold-pressed and light, so they arrive first and fade first. The cinnamon leaf oil is heavier and stays behind them, which is what gives the blend a shape across the hour instead of a single flat note. Grape seed oil thins under warm hands, almond oil holds the slip, wheat germ oil and tocopherol sit on the antioxidant side of the formula, and allantoin closes it on skin conditioning. How to use:

1. Application: 15 ml. Warm it well; the cinnamon leaf note needs body heat to come forward and stays flat on a cold application.
2. Massage: Back, shoulders and legs. Keep it off the face and off broken skin.
3. Tip: Pair it with the seasonal name on your booking page. Clients book a spiced treatment in November who would not book a massage.

Suitable for: Spa and salon menus that change with the season, gift voucher treatments over the winter, and practices that want a scent their clients associate with a specific time of year.

Sensitisation note: Cinnamon leaf oil is eugenol-dominant, and eugenol is a recognised skin sensitiser and a declarable EU fragrance allergen. Patch test a new client on the forearm before a full-body treatment, and check the printed label for the fragrance allergen declaration.

Sun caution: Contains cold-pressed grapefruit peel oil. Advise clients to keep treated skin out of direct sunlight and off sunbeds for at least 12 hours after the session.

Results with regular use:

• A seasonal treatment you can name and price separately on the menu.
• An aroma with a shape: citrus first, spice underneath, across the hour.
• Even slip on one application across a 60 minute protocol.
• Skin stays comfortable on repeated weekly work.

INCI/Ingredients: Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil, Prunus Dulcis Amygdalus Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Oil, Tocopherol, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Oil, Cinnamomum Zeylanicum Leaf Oil, Citrus Grandis Peel Oil, Triticum Vulgare Oil, Allantoin.

Packaging: 500 ml pump bottle. At 10 to 20 ml per full-body session that is 25 to 50 treatments per bottle.