Base Oils - Walnut oil

Walnut oil has great emollient qualities and is a good choice to include when mixing a massage oil or preparing a carrier oil blend. It is not often used on its own, but is used as a blend option.

It has healing properties and helpful with skin problems but a skin patch test must preferably be done on anybody that suffers from nut allergies, as this oil may cause an allergic reaction in those people that are very sensitive to this particular nut.

This information page is very short, with very little information, as there is not a great body of information regarding it.

Walnut oil is a pleasant nutty smelling oil and contains a small amounts of GLA and could be used in a base oil blend.

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