Lemon Essential Oil 15ml

Undiluted, single ingredient
Distilled with steam
15 ml amber glass, glass pipette
Not tested on animals

Undiluted, single ingredient
Distilled with steam
15 ml amber glass, glass pipette
Not tested on animals

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What's Good

A sharp, clean citrus that reads like peel rather than like squash
Steam distilled from lemon, with nothing blended into the bottle
Roughly 300 drops in 15ml, at 2 to 5 drops a use
Sits well with lavender, rosemary, peppermint or eucalyptus in a blend
Glass pipette, so you can count what goes in instead of pouring
Small enough for a hostel shelf, a desk drawer or a bathroom cabinet

This is a bright, sharp smell rather than a soft or cosy one, and it thins out fast. If you want warm and calming for a bedroom, buy our lavender instead. If you want something that is still in the room an hour later, buy the frankincense.

What's Inside Matters

One ingredient, and here is exactly what it is and where it came from.

100% pure lemon essential oil (Citrus limon)
Taken from the outer peel of the fruit, not the juice or the pulp
Steam distilled
From the farms of Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh
Naturally led by limonene, the compound behind the sharp citrus top
A single ingredient - nothing is blended in behind it

Lemon oil is dominated by limonene, the same molecule you smell when you break a lemon peel with your thumbnail. It is what makes the oil read bright and dry rather than sweet, and it is also why the smell moves so fast - limonene is light and evaporates early, so lemon opens hard and then steps back. That lightness has a cost. Citrus oils take on a duller, slightly waxy edge as they age, faster than a resin or a wood does, so keep the cap tight and keep the bottle out of the sun.

Make The Most Of Your Oil

Two routines are printed on the carton, and both of them use very little.

Scalp: five drops into two tablespoons of any carrier oil, mixed in a bowl
Face: two drops into one tablespoon of carrier oil, then rinse in the morning
Diffuser: follow the drop count your own diffuser's instructions give
Mop bucket: a few drops in the final rinse, for a kitchen floor in monsoon
Never neat on skin, never in your eyes, never swallowed - dilute every time

1 Mix it firstFive drops into two tablespoons of carrier oil in a small bowl. Never straight from the bottle onto your head.
2 Work the scalpFingertips, not nails, in small circles from the crown outwards. Take two or three minutes over it.
3 Take it downDraw what is left on your palms down the lengths to the ends, so the mid-lengths get some too.
4 Sleep on itLeave it in overnight and shampoo it out next morning. Put an old pillowcase on first.

Dilute it, every time. Two drops in one tablespoon of carrier oil is roughly a 1% mix, which is the strength the face routine on the carton works out to; five drops in two tablespoons is about the same for your scalp. Patch test first - put a little of the diluted mix inside your elbow, leave it a day, and see what your skin says before it goes anywhere near your face. Keep it away from your eyes, and wash your hands before you rub them. Do not swallow it. Store it out of reach of children and pets. Cats are especially sensitive to essential oils, so do not run a diffuser in a closed room a cat cannot leave, and keep the bottle where a cat cannot knock it down. Citrus oils are traditionally kept off skin that is about to meet direct sunlight, which is one reason both routines on the carton are overnight ones - if you use it in the daytime, keep it under clothes. If you are pregnant, check with your doctor before you start.

Product Information

Commodity: Lemon Essential Oil
Country of Origin: India
Net Quantity: 15 ml
Best Before: 36 months from the date of manufacture
Manufactured/Marketed by: INDRAAZ Selfcare
Customer Care Email: connect@indraaz.com
Customer Care: +91 70681 14030

What We Leave Out

No carrier oil
No mineral oil
No alcohol
No synthetic fragrance
No added colour
No preservatives
No fillers or diluents
No animal testing

About This Essential Oil

What it actually is

Lemon essential oil comes from the peel, not the fruit. The yellow rind of a lemon is studded with tiny oil sacs - that fine mist you get when you bend a peel over a cup of chai is the oil itself, leaving under pressure. Ours is steam distilled from that material, so what is in the bottle is the peel's own volatile fraction and nothing else.

In perfumery terms it is a top note, and that is the single most useful thing to know about it. Top notes are small, light molecules that lift off a surface quickly. Lemon opens loud and then recedes, which is why it is used to start a blend rather than to carry one.

Where ours comes from

From the farms of Kannauj, in Uttar Pradesh - the town that has been distilling for the Indian perfume trade for centuries and still runs on it. It is bottled in 15ml amber glass with a gold collar and a glass pipette, and it goes out one bottle to a carton.

How to use it well

Use less than instinct tells you. Two drops in a tablespoon of carrier oil is enough for a whole face. If a blend smells too sharp, the answer is almost never more lemon.

Lemon is a good team player. It sits neatly under lavender, next to rosemary, and over eucalyptus or peppermint. Where it earns its place is on top of something heavy - a resin or a thick floral - where it cuts the density without changing the character underneath.

It has a long domestic life outside the diffuser too. Lemon has been the household smell for scrubbed surfaces for as long as anyone has been scrubbing them: a few drops in the last rinse of the mop bucket, or on a cloth for a kitchen shelf that has gone slightly sticky in the damp.

Who it suits

People who want a room to smell awake. If your idea of a good-smelling desk at 3pm is sharp and dry rather than soft and warm, this is your bottle. It suits WFH corners, bathrooms, kitchens, and wardrobes that have been shut through a monsoon.

Who it does not suit

Anyone looking for a bedtime smell. Lemon does not settle a room down; it wakes it up, and a lot of people find it too bright last thing at night. Buy the lavender for that - soft, floral, powdery, and made for exactly that hour.

It also does not suit anyone who wants a scent that announces the room before you walk into it. Lemon is not a statement floral. If you want presence, ylang ylang or rose is the shelf to look at, and frankincense if you want something that is still faintly there hours later.

One honest limitation

It fades fast, and there is no way around it. That is the physics of a light molecule, not a fault in the distillation, and every lemon oil on every shelf behaves the same way. If you need a smell to hold for a whole evening in a large room, lemon on its own will disappoint you - either blend it over something heavier, or buy something heavier to begin with.

Storage and safety

Cap it tight, keep it upright, keep it out of sunlight and away from the stove. Citrus oils lose their edge quicker than most when air and heat get to them, which is what the amber glass is for. Best before thirty-six months from manufacture.

Always dilute before it touches skin, and patch test the diluted mix a day ahead. Keep it out of your eyes, out of your mouth, and out of reach of children and pets - cats especially, who are far more sensitive to essential oils than we are. Keep it off skin that is about to be in strong sun. If you are pregnant, ask your doctor before you use it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will one bottle be enough for my room?

For a hostel room, a PG room, a bathroom or a one-BHK bedroom with the door shut, yes. Fifteen millilitres works out to roughly three hundred drops, and you are using a handful at a time.

For a large open-plan living and dining area, honestly, not on its own. Lemon is a light oil and it disperses instead of building. In a big room you will keep adding drops and still feel like it is not there.

Can I put it straight on my skin?

No. It goes into a carrier oil first, every single time. The carton gives you the ratio: two drops into one tablespoon for your face, five drops into two tablespoons for your scalp.

Patch test the diluted mix inside your elbow and wait a day before it goes on your face. And keep it off skin heading into strong sun - citrus oils and direct sunlight are an old and sensible caution.

Can I add it to my humidifier?

Do not. A humidifier is built to move water, and oil sits on top of it, gums the ultrasonic plate and can crack the plastic tank over time. It will also void most warranties.

Use an aroma diffuser instead, which is designed for it, or skip the machine entirely - a few drops on a cotton ball tucked behind a wardrobe shelf does the same job for nothing.

Is it safe around my cat?

Treat cats as the exception. They process essential oils differently from us, and citrus oils in particular are ones most vets would rather were not diffused around them.

If you have a cat, keep the bottle sealed and out of paw's reach, never apply anything to their coat, and if you diffuse at all, do it in a room the cat can walk out of and stop when they do.

Does it expire?

It is best before thirty-six months from the date of manufacture, printed on the carton. That is the outer limit, not a promise about an opened bottle.

Citrus oils age faster than most once air gets to them. Keep the cap screwed down, keep it out of the sun and away from the gas stove, and it will hold its sharpness for far longer than a bottle left on a sunny windowsill.

Will it smell like a cleaning product?

To some people, yes. Lemon is the smell most floor cleaners and dish liquids in India are built around, so a lemon-scented room can read as freshly mopped rather than as perfumed. That association is hard to unlearn.

If that is not what you want, blend it - one drop of lemon with two of lavender takes the edge off and keeps the lift. Or buy the orange instead, which is rounder and sweeter and reads much less like a cleaning cupboard.

How long does the smell last?

Not long, and we are not going to give you a number we have not measured. Lemon is a top note: it is light, it evaporates early, and it is the first thing to go out of any blend.

If you want length, pair it with something heavier that holds it down - frankincense or ylang ylang underneath lemon will keep it in the room longer than lemon manages alone.

Can I apply this directly to my skin?

No. Undiluted essential oils are highly concentrated and should always be mixed with a carrier oil — coconut, jojoba or almond — before they touch skin. Patch test first.

How long before I see results?

Give it 8 to 12 weeks of consistent use. Essential oils work gradually; anything promising overnight change is overpromising.

Is it safe during pregnancy?

Speak to your doctor first. Several essential oils are generally avoided during the first trimester, so please get advice specific to you rather than relying on a general rule.

When will my order arrive?

Orders dispatch the same or next working day. Metro cities: 3-5 business days. Rest of India: 4-6 business days.

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Lemon Essential Oil 15ml