Tamanu Balm

Moisturizing and healing. Cellular restorative.

This balm is particularly ideal for healing your skin ( tattoos )

During my first trip to Polynesia, the elders told me about Tamanu..

This healing oil, once known as "sacred oil", has been used for thousands of years in Polynesia.

It was so named because the trees that produced Tamanu nuts were planted in the "Marae", ancient sacred places of worship.

Our Tamanu oil is purchased at its local production site on the island of Raiatea.

Capacity 40gr.

Benefits of Tamanu Oil - Main properties

1) Natural healing properties

Tamanu oil has the therapeutic property of promoting the formation of new tissue, which accelerates healing and the growth of healthy skin. Because of its healing virtues, tamanu oil is a natural remedy widely used in first aid.

In the Pacific islands, tamanu oil is generously applied to cuts, scratches, burns (boiling water, caustic and flaming gas), sunburns, insect bites, scrapes, acne pimples, acne scars, psoriasis, diabetic wounds, anal fissures, thrombosed hemorrhoids, dry or scaly skin, chapped skin, blisters, chilblains, psoriasis, eczema and herpes pimples.

Polynesian women massage tamanu oil locally into their babies' skin to promote beautiful, clear, spotless skin and prevent rashes such as diaper rash. Tamanu oil also has a soothing effect on irritated skin.

2) Natural anti-inflammatory

Tamanu oil has been shown to have an anti-inflammatory effect. This activity is due in part to the calophylollide 4-phenyl coumarin and a group of xanthones contained in the oil, and explains the reduction in the inflammatory reaction that generally accompanies all kinds of skin lesions: wounds, rashes, insect bites, acne pimples, etc. Applied locally, this oil is also traditionally used against sore throats.

3) Natural antifungal agent

Tamanu oil has antifungal properties. In fact, the friedeline molecule contained in tamanu oil has good antifungal activity against Pseudallescheria boydii (responsible for fungal keratitis) and moderate activity against Trichophyton schoenleinii (a skin fungus that parasitizes hair, skin and nails, associated with marginal eczema, ringworm, athlete's foot, dermatophytosis of the scalp and beard).

Tamanu oil contains n-butanol fractions with antifungal action against Trichophyton Semii and Trichophyton metagrophyte.

4) Antibacterial properties

Tamanu oil also has natural antimicrobial properties. The oil contains several powerful bactericidal agents effective in combating various human and animal pathogens.

These antimicrobial phytochemicals include friedeline, canophyllol, canophyllic acid and inophynone. They exert direct and indirect antibiotic effects by stimulating the phagocytic activity of cells of the reticuloendothelial system (macrophages).

Researchers have compared the antimicrobial activity of Tamanu oil with that of ampicillin. They found that canophyllol had good antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus (staphylococcus aureus), the bacterium that causes abscesses, boils, infected wounds, inflammation, suppuration, septicemia and conjunctivitis.

In addition, the canophyllol contained in Tamanu oil acts against Corynebacterium diphteriae (responsible for diphtheria), Klebsiella pneumoniae (responsible for septicemia, respiratory infections, infected wounds and burns).

Canophyllic acid has moderate activity against Proteus mirabilis, which causes bladder infections, wounds, septicemia and pneumonia, especially in hospitalized patients.

Researchers have concluded that the antimicrobial agents contained in Tamanu oil can be used successfully to treat a number of skin infections.

5) Analgesic properties of tamanu oil

Rubbed or massaged in, Tamanu oil has analgesic properties and is used to relieve neuralgia, leprosy neuritis, shingles, rheumatism, painful joints, sprains, tendonitis, strains, lumbago and sciatica.