
What are Essential Oils?
Essential oils are the aromatic, volatile liquid that is within many shrubs, flowers, trees, roots, bushes and seeds and extracted through distillation. They are highly concentrated and far more potent than dried herbs because of the distillation process. Essential oils are the "life" of the plant.
A single essential oil can contain 80-300 chemical constitutes and 300-500 bio chemical constitutes depending on the particular chemistry of a plant different therapeutic actions can vary. An essential oil can not be duplicated synthetically they are too complex. Each harvest contains different chemical constitutes because each year they get a different amount of sun and rain. The same seed planted in different locations will also contain different chemical constitutes.
To be considered pure and therapeutic the oils must be distilled at low temperature and no synthetic ingredients added. Do not be tricked by advertisement that an oil is 100% pure. According the FDA regulations they allow a bottle of oil to be marketed as pure if it has 5 drops of true pure oil to 95 drops of any other substance. Adulterated mis-labeled essential oils may present dangers for consumers. Causing rashes, burns, skin irritations. Synthetic oils can mimic common essential oils but only 2% of the Essential oils distributed in USA are truly 100% pure and therapeutic. It is important to know about the integrity of the essential oil company or vendor.
How to be sure your essential oils are pure, therapeutic grade?
Ask your oil supplier questions.
* Are the fragrances delicate, rich and organic? Do they "feel" natural? *Do the aromas vary each batch? (if they do not they have been altered)
*Does the supplier grow and distill their own oils?
*Are the distillation facilities part of the farm where the herbs are grown (so oils are freshly distilled)
*Does your supplier use LOW pressure and LOW temperature to distill to preserve all of the fragile chemical constituents? are the cookers fabricated from costly food grade stainless steel allows to reduce the likelihood of the oils chemically reacting with metal.
*Does your supplier personally inspect the fields and distilleries where the herbs are grown and distilled?
*Does your supplier subject EACH batch of essential oils through multiple chemical analyses to test for purity and therapeutic quality and send out for 3rd party testing?
* Are your oils stored in dark colored glass bottles and kept in a cool dry place?
*Does the oil have an expiration date? ( 100% pure therapeutic grade will not because when stored properly the oils will maintain their properties beyond your lifetime.) Oils in the Egyptian tombs are as effective today and probably more because they are truly pure.
What if you purchase pure therapeutic grade oil and it does not smell pleasant to you?
When you smell a pure therapeutic grade oil the fragrance may "stink" and be unpleasant though it is not a "chemical" smell. When this happens your cells receptor sites are responding to the properties in that particular oil and is "stirring up" the incorrect programing in the cells. When you continue to smell that particular oil receiving its healing properties the cells is cleansed and reprogramed the fragrance will smell pleasing to you.
Essential oils are the aromatic, volatile liquid that is within many shrubs, flowers, trees, roots, bushes and seeds and extracted through distillation. They are highly concentrated and far more potent than dried herbs because of the distillation process. Essential oils are the "life" of the plant.
A single essential oil can contain 80-300 chemical constitutes and 300-500 bio chemical constitutes depending on the particular chemistry of a plant different therapeutic actions can vary. An essential oil can not be duplicated synthetically they are too complex. Each harvest contains different chemical constitutes because each year they get a different amount of sun and rain. The same seed planted in different locations will also contain different chemical constitutes.
To be considered pure and therapeutic the oils must be distilled at low temperature and no synthetic ingredients added. Do not be tricked by advertisement that an oil is 100% pure. According the FDA regulations they allow a bottle of oil to be marketed as pure if it has 5 drops of true pure oil to 95 drops of any other substance. Adulterated mis-labeled essential oils may present dangers for consumers. Causing rashes, burns, skin irritations. Synthetic oils can mimic common essential oils but only 2% of the Essential oils distributed in USA are truly 100% pure and therapeutic. It is important to know about the integrity of the essential oil company or vendor.
How to be sure your essential oils are pure, therapeutic grade?
Ask your oil supplier questions.
* Are the fragrances delicate, rich and organic? Do they "feel" natural? *Do the aromas vary each batch? (if they do not they have been altered)
*Does the supplier grow and distill their own oils?
*Are the distillation facilities part of the farm where the herbs are grown (so oils are freshly distilled)
*Does your supplier use LOW pressure and LOW temperature to distill to preserve all of the fragile chemical constituents? are the cookers fabricated from costly food grade stainless steel allows to reduce the likelihood of the oils chemically reacting with metal.
*Does your supplier personally inspect the fields and distilleries where the herbs are grown and distilled?
*Does your supplier subject EACH batch of essential oils through multiple chemical analyses to test for purity and therapeutic quality and send out for 3rd party testing?
* Are your oils stored in dark colored glass bottles and kept in a cool dry place?
*Does the oil have an expiration date? ( 100% pure therapeutic grade will not because when stored properly the oils will maintain their properties beyond your lifetime.) Oils in the Egyptian tombs are as effective today and probably more because they are truly pure.
What if you purchase pure therapeutic grade oil and it does not smell pleasant to you?
When you smell a pure therapeutic grade oil the fragrance may "stink" and be unpleasant though it is not a "chemical" smell. When this happens your cells receptor sites are responding to the properties in that particular oil and is "stirring up" the incorrect programing in the cells. When you continue to smell that particular oil receiving its healing properties the cells is cleansed and reprogramed the fragrance will smell pleasing to you.
How do Essential Oils work?
The molecules of 100% pure therapeutic grade essential oils are very small and penetrate the blood/brain barrier. Within 20 seconds of application the oils will penetrate the 100 trillion cells in your body and will minister to each cell as they were created to. The chemical constituents in each oil will effect each body differently according to each persons personal body chemistry.
The Essential Oils desk reference guide compiled by Life Science publishing and the Reference Guide for Essential oils are great tools to get to know Essential Oils.
The Essential Oils desk reference guide compiled by Life Science publishing and the Reference Guide for Essential oils are great tools to get to know Essential Oils.