Animate your airways with the crisp vitality of cool mountain air! Living Libations Matico Essential Oil is steam distilled from the wild leaves and flowering tops of the Andean Mountain Pepper shrub (Piper elongatum). Fresh, cool, and peppery, this invigorating essential oil supports clear breathing, uplifts clarity, and provides botanical-biotic benefits for both skin and senses.
Sustainably wild-collected in Peru, Matico Essential Oil embodies the spirit of the Andes—its aroma unfolding with bright notes of mint, eucalyptus, camphor, and spice. Traditionally used as a soothing botanical bandage, Matico’s cooling and clarifying qualities make it ideal for chest balms, massage oils, salt pipes, steams, and diffusers.
Benefits
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Supports easier, clearer breathing
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Cooling and soothing to irritated or inflamed skin (when diluted)
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Fresh, camphoraceous, mint-like aroma for clarity and focus
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Ideal for chest balms, massage blends, and dry brushing oils
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Cleansing and refreshing for bath rituals
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Wonderful for sauna and steam inhalation
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Sustainably wildcrafted in Peru
Aroma Profile
Scent: Fresh, cool, spicy, with mint and eucalyptus undertones
Consistency: Thin
Botanical Details
Botanical Name: Piper elongatum
Family: Piperaceae
Plant Part: Leaves and flowering tops
Extraction: Steam distilled
Origin: Peru
Cultivation: Wild collected
Composition: 100% Piper elongatum
Key Component: 45.9% dillapiol
How to Use
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Diffuse or inhale directly for refreshed breathing
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Use in a salt pipe for airway support
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Add to chest balms or massage oils for cooling comfort
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Add to facial steams to rejuvenate breathing pathways
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Add to bath salts for a purifying soak
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Use in saunas or showers to create an aromatic steam
Blends Well With
Lemon, Sandalwood, Rosemary, Orange, Cypress, Juniper, Ravensara, Black Spruce, Douglas Fir, White Fir, Sage, Blue Mountain Sage, Cape Chamomile, Grapefruit.
Matico’s fresh, cool, mountain-breeze aroma awakens clarity, steadies the breath, and refreshes body and mind.
