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Essential Oils Explained
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What are Essential Oils?

Most of you are probably more familiar with Essential Oils than you would think. Every time you add herbs or spices to a recipe we are using Essential Oils.

Essential Oils or "essences" are the most potent part of the plant. They are the plants ‘hormones'.

An Essential oils Is a fragrant, volatile liquid. It is non oily and highly concentrated, this is way they should never be used neat on the skin. The volatility of the chemicals is dependant on how quickly it will evaporate. True Essential Oils leave little or no stain with very few exceptions. They shoul be extracted from a single botanical source.

Each Essential Oil contains many different chemical components which react together to give the oil its unique qualities. This is why all oils have such a wide variety of actions, and some oils have very similar actions, for example, most oils have antiseptic qualities and many are anti-inflammatory.

Plants used for producing Essential Oils come from many parts of the world, some Essential Oils can be produced in many different countries, for example, Lavender is produced mainly in France, but it is also produced in Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Greece and many other countries. The quality of oil may vary from country to country and, in the case of Lavender, the French variety is thought to be the best quality.

Essential Oils are obtained from many different parts of the plant including leaves, flowers, twigs roots and resins. There are many types of distillation processes used to obtain Essential Oils though the main ones are Steam Distillation, Enfleurage, Solvent Extraction and Expression. These processes are used to gain the most or the best quality Essential Oil from the raw plant material.

The Notes of Essential Oils

Essential oils may be classified into three types. These are known as Essential Oils notes. The note of an Essential Oil is linked to its volatility (rate of evaporation). Below are some feature of the different oil notes.

Top Note

• Fastest acting
• Most stimulation and upliftong to the mind and body
• Quickest to evaporate

Middle Notes

• Main effects are on the body functions
• Moderately volatile
• The ‘heart' of the blend
• Usually balancing

Base Notes

• Sedative and relaxing
• Slow to evaporate
• Generally have a fixing quality (they can help prolong and hold back the volatility of top notes)

A Brief Guide to Purchasing Essential Oils

When buying Essential Oils always purchase them from a reputable source. Price can be a good indicator of quality. Very cheap oils should be avoided at they could be pre-blended or chemical substitutes. One the chemical composition of an oil is analysed the aroma is easily reproduced. Unfortunately these replicas, though pleasantly smelling, have little or no therapeutic value.

Asking the supplier where the oil was produced can be a good indicator of quality. If the Latin name is on the bottle always check with a good book that the name is correct. Asking suppliers where there oils are bottled may also be worthwhile. If an oil is bottled at source it is less likely to have oxidised, which changes the chemical structure. Checking if the oil has a sell by date or batch number can give a good idea of quality. Essential oils usually last from between six months to two years with few exceptions. Checking whether the supplier obtains Gas Chromatographs for any of their oils is also worthwhile although, in the UK these are very expensive and may not be obtained for every single oils a supplier sells.

All of the above are general guidelines to buying essential oils. Something you can do yourself to check oils you already have is the spill test or blotting paper test. Put one drop of Essential Oil on a spill or a piece of blotting paper. Top notes are highly volatile and last about 12to18 hours. Middle notes last 2 to 3 days. Base notes tend to be heavy oils and can last up to a week. When the oil has evaporated it should leave little or no stain behind.

How Essential Oils Work

Essential Oils can be absorbed into the body in two main ways.

The first is by absorption through the skin via the pores and hair follicles. This happens during an Aromatherapy Massage.

The second way is by the aromatic molecules of the oils being taken into the Olfactory system. As we breathe in the aroma of the oil we are also breathing in molecules containing it's components. These components are drawn into the lungs, passing the Olfactory tract and into the limbic system of the brain. The Limbic system is the part of the brain that stores memories. The molecules activate the Limbic system to excrete certain hormones that are able to act as pain killers and induce a feeling of well being.

When you go to an Aromatherapist it is not completely necessary to have a full body massage. The therapist could just as easily send you away with a bottle of oil he or she has blended based on the information you have given and tell you to rub it into your body. The main reason for the Aromatherapy massage is to induce a feeling of well-being which can then be slipped into any time that the blend of oils passes into the olfactory system.

The application of oils, therefore, can evoke effects such as:-

• A feeling of well being and relaxation
• Being pampered and soothed
• Re-assuring if you are lacking in confidence
• Increased awareness of the body or body image
• Increase the trust levels of physical contact
• ‘Feel better' result due to the relief of pain/tension

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The information here is offered to help in your research and investigation of possible ways to manage your own health care issues. Common sense as well as solid professional advice from your own trusted medical care specialist or personal holistic health care practitioner should always be part of managing your health care choices.

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