Essential Oils Guide

In this article on 100% pure essential oils I want to clear some things about

• what makes an essential oil 100% pure,
• what are the dangers of not having 100% pure essential oils
• how to ensure that the oils you use are 100% pure.

So let’s get to it…

First and foremost, many people think that aromatherapy is supposed to heal only by the power of “smell”, or “fragrance”… that’s far from true. There are many uses to essential oils and aromatherapy remedies (e.g. massage, applying to wounds). So what really heals in aromatherapy are the constituents, active constituents inside the oils extracted from the various body plants.

Another thing to bare in mind is that many times, depending on a specific plant, some parte may be used for some illnesses while other for other illnesses. Some families within that species can heal one problem, while other families (or plants in the same family)- can do nothing for your health. So purity is very important, and oils are very sensitive products.

The extraction of 100% pure oils is not a simple process, and it involves many times either the method of steam distillation or simply “cold” extraction method (“cold percolation”). Either way, the ending result is that you’ll have a great 100% potent oil that does what it’s supposed to do, and what has been documented along the ears.

During the years, many people have investigated various plants and extracts from different parts of plants, and have experimented with these extracts, thus reaching specific conclusions about what a specific part of a plant can heal. The same happened with Homeopathy, and the same with modern medicine. Unfortunately, nowadays unscrupulous companies and people mix the essential oils with synthetic substances, thus producing many times side effects and also many times not managing to solve the actual problems that one looks to solve.

Normally essential oils are extracted from natural plants, bark or leaves, and of course, these are limited resources in nature. Also the costs of natural plants are higher, and many times they are collected directly from nature and used for extractions. As you can see, there’s a limit to how much one can extract and thus earn, and so some people decided -as in all matters of life- to cheat and add extra synthetic substances to produced oils. Basically: dilute them, using many times synthetic diluters.

How can you know that an essential oil is 100% pure?

1. First, it’s written on it.
2. Quite often it’s more expensive (but let that not be your only reason for choosing)
3. They are placed in dark glass bottles.
4. They don’t provoke any irritation and do exactly what they say
5. 100% pure essential oils don’t contain any proteins inside, and since it’s proteins that normally provoke allergies, if you get an allergy as a result of using an “essential” oil… you got it: it’s not that “essential” after all

Quality check your (supposedly) 100% pure oils producer

The only way to make sure that the oils you have are truly 100% pure essential oils, you should do some background check on the producer. Not the vendor, but the producer. With the power of the internet we now have, it’s easy to do a research on the producer you find written on the bottle, see if there are any controversies regarding that particular producer, see about their experience and extraction methods and maybe even some reviews and customer dis/satisfaction messages.

All this being said, I hope you’ll have an easier time making your decisions about 100% pure essential oils, and that your journey in the world of Aromatherapy and Mother Nature will be without unwanted adventures.

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