Clove essential oil has a spicy, warm, almost woody aroma, perfect for everything fall and wellness. Clove essential oil is created by steam distilling the flower bud and stems from the syzygium aromaticum shrub and tree plants.
It's key constituents are eugenol (75-85%), eugenol acetate (8-15%), and beta-carophyllene (2-7%).
Clove oil is the most concentrated antioxidant known with an ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) value of over 1,000,000. By comparison the ORAC score for blueberries is only 2,400.
Aromatically, Clove encourages sleep, stimulates dreams, and creates a sense of protection and courage.
- Our favorite clove essential oil uses and benefits include:
- Our Favorite Diffuser Blends with Clove Essential Oil
- Clove Vitality Essential Oil Recipes and Uses
- Which essential oils blend well with clove essential oil?
- Frequently Asked Questions About Clove Essential Oil
- Safely using clove essential oil
- Where to find Clove Essential Oil
- Pre-made essential oil blends and oil-infused products featuring clove essential oil:
Our favorite clove essential oil uses and benefits include:
- Supports cardiovascular wellness
- Stimulates the limbic system
- Cleansing to the digestive tract when taken internally
- Soothing to sore muscles when applied topically
- Soothing and mildly numbing to sore mouth, gums, and teeth when swished in your oil pulling routine
- Mentally stimulating when diffused or applied topically
- Stimulates dreams
- Enhances courage
- Mildly numbing when applied topically
- Promotes restful sleep
- Helps you feel courageous
- Great to use with peppermint in a spray to deter ants (20 drops each peppermint and clove with a pinch of salt in a 16oz glass bottle, and filled the rest of the way with distilled water)
- Use it in your homemade DIY Pumpkin Spice Cleaner
- Add it in your homemade DIY Foaming Hand Soap Recipe
Our Favorite Diffuser Blends with Clove Essential Oil
- Christmas Cookies: 2 drops lemon, 2 drops bergamot, 2 drops cinnamon, 2 drops clove, 1 drop nutmeg
- October Breeze: 2 drops juniper, 2 drops clove, 2 drops cedarwood
- Cozy Home: 2 drops tangerine, 2 drops rosemary, 1 drop clove
- Snowed In: 2 drops clove, 2 drops cardamom, 2 drops copaiba
- Spa Day: 2 drops clove, 2 drops patchouli, 1 drop basil, 1 drop geranium
- Through the Fog: 3 drops clove, 2 drops cypress, 2 drops frankincense, 1 drop peppermint
- Pumpkin Pie: 4 drops cardamom, 2 drops orange, 1 drop each cinnamon and clove
- Warm Home Diffuser Blend
** PLEASE NOTE ** Don't be fooled by clever marketing. Not all essential oils are created equally. Make sure you're not wasting your money on fake or altered essential oils (even if they're labeled as “pure essential oil”). Don't miss our explosive report outlining the dirty little secrets of the essential oil industry to ensure you're not wasting your money on brands of oils that legally mislead you through deceitful marketing practices.
Clove Vitality Essential Oil Recipes and Uses
Clove vitality is another excellent immune system enhancer, and is present in Thieves Vitality, ImmuPower, Inner Defense, and Longevity formulas.
Uses for Clove Vitality include:
- Helps boost your immune system when taken as a supplement (please make sure to heavily dilute)
- Cleansing to teeth and gums when you add to your toothpaste or oil pulling routine
- May help reduce toothaches and discomfort when you add to your favorite mouthwash or oil pulling routine
- May substitute ground cloves in recipes
- Add a drop to ginger bread, molasses cookies, and spice cakes
- Add clove, lemon, cinnamon, and nutmeg vitality oils to spice up a batch of apple cider
- Use 2 drops of clove vitality in your favorite homemade butternut squash recipe
- Add a drop or two to your favorite pancake or waffle recipe, along with nutmeg, cardamom, and cinnamon vitality essential oils.
- Use a few drops of clove essential oil in your favorite pumpkin pie recipe
- Add a drop of clove essential oil in your homemade spiced pumpkin coffee creamer
Which essential oils blend well with clove essential oil?
Clove essential oil blends well with
- Basil essential oil
- Bergamot essential oil
- Cinnamon bark essential oil
- Clary sage essential oil
- Grapefruit essential oil
- Lavender essential oil
- Lemon essential oil
- Nutmeg essential oil
- Orange essential oil
- Peppermint essential oil
- Rose essential oil
- Rosemary essential oil
- Ylang ylang essential oil
Frequently Asked Questions About Clove Essential Oil
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Safely using clove essential oil
Please ensure you dilute clove essential oil before applying it to your skin by using your favorite carrier oil. I recommend diluting 1 drop per 1 ml of carrier oil for adults.
If you are choosing to use clove essential oil in your mouth, I highly recommend 1-2 drops per Tbsp of oil like sunflower or coconut oil. Then swish around like you're oil pulling.
A carrier oil can be any cold-pressed, seed-based oil (ideally organic and unrefined). This includes most cooking oil, like coconut oil, avocado oil, and olive oil. Personally, we LOVE using sweet almond oil, grapeseed oil, and the V6 Carrier oil (made by Young Living). This is the best way to dilute your essential oils for topical use.
Where to find Clove Essential Oil
We purchase our oils through Young Living because they set a higher standard for essential oils than the rest of the industry. Their Seed to Seal guarantee is unmatched and shows their dedication to a farm-to-table type of approach.
Warning: DO NOT purchase your oils through Amazon or similar websites!
Any website that allows anyone to sell on, such as Amazon, eBay, Walmart… etc… are terrible places to purchase essential oils. While you may get a “good deal,” knowing who you're purchasing from is difficult. There are many counterfeit essential oils being sold that are causing health ailments, major skin reactions, and a lot of misery. These are NOT high quality essential oils. They are fakes being sold purely for profit.
I also do NOT recommend purchasing from grocery stores, Walmart, Target, department stores, or drug stores. Many of the brands found at those stores have been proven to not actually contain any essential oil (which is perfectly legal to do).
I STRONGLY suggest you know the company that makes your oils, how the plants are cared for, what they do for distilling, how and how many times each batch is tested (and when), and their bottling processes. Many companies throw out fancy language for marketing purposes, but actually have no clue how their oils are made because the oils come from a broker (which are almost always diluted in solvents). Transparency is key.
I highly encourage you to check out our How To Find Quality Essential Oils post for in-depth information about why quality matters, and what to look for.
We LOVE their farm-to-table approach to growing, distilling, bottling, and delivering your oils right to your door!
Pre-made essential oil blends and oil-infused products featuring clove essential oil:
- Abundance essential oil blend
- AromaGuard Medow Mist Deodorant
- AromaGuard Mountain Mint Deodorant
- BLM supplement for bones, ligaments, and muscle health
- Deep Relief Roll On essential oil blend
- En-R-Gee essential oil blend
- Essential Beauty Serum for dry skin
- Essentialzyme and Essentialzymes 4 digestive enzyme supplement
- ImmuPower essential oil blend
- Inner Defense supplement for wellness
- K&B supplement
- Kidscents Clique Toothpaste
- Longevity essential oil blend
- Longevity supplement for overall wellness
- Melrose essential oil blend
- OmegaGize omega supplement
- PanAway essential oil blend for stiff, sore muscles and joints
- ParaFree supplement for parasite cleansing
- Progessence Phyto Plus
- Progessence Plus serum for supporting healthy female hormones
- Thieves essential oil blend
- Thieves AromaBright Toothpaste
- Thieves AromaBright Whitening Toothpaste
- Thieves cleansing soap bar
- Thieves cough drops
- Thieves dental floss
- Thieves Dentarome Plus toothpaste
- Thieves Dentarome Ultra toothpaste
- Thieves foaming hand soap
- Thieves essence plus mouthwash
- Thieves household cleaner
- Thieves lozenges
- Thieves Spray
- Thieves hand sanitizer
- Thieves wipes
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