Ah... Peppermint...
Candy canes at Christmas with their red and white stripes.
Hot chocolate laced with mint on a cold day.
Those soft, pastel butter mints my grandmother always kept in her room.
Sitting on mom's lap reading a book in the bathroom while the soothing smell of peppermint swirled with the steam when I was sick...
For me, peppermint has always been associated with comfort, happiness and family. It is a flavor of celebration and chewing gum. Those round red and white mints you get at a restaurant after spending time with loved ones.
I almost always have a bag of the soft, old fashioned peppermint sticks stashed somewhere...
I think peppermint fits so well with Christmas because it is a bright, uplifting and refreshing fragrance.
I call peppermint oil the popular one because we come in contact with it in one form or another just about every day.
It is in our toothpaste, floss and mouthwash. It may be in our shampoo. It is in our breath mints and chewing gum.
For our purposes, we are using oil from Mentha x Piperita.
Spearmint and wintergreen are completely different oils with different applications. Be sure you are buying the right kind of mint. They are not interchangeable!
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