Essential Oils
What are they, are all essential oils the same quality
What are essential oils?
Where do essential oils come from? What are essential oils used for? What are common uses for essential oils?
Where essential oils come from
If you would have asked me about essential oils a few years ago, I wouldn’t have even known what they were. Today I see them as one of the most effective tools for natural health and alternative medicine that I know.
Scientifically speaking essential oils are naturally occurring, volatile aromatic compounds found in the seeds, bark, stems, roots, flowers, and other parts of plants. What exactly is a volatile aromatic compound? They are called volatile because they change state quickly. Essential oils aren’t true oils like almond oil, olive oil, or flaxseed oil — those are called fixed oils. Fixed oils don’t vaporize the way essential oils do, and they are much heavier. Over 3,000 varieties of volatile aromatic compounds have been identified to date. Essentially, there is an oil for everything!
Where essential oils are used
Essential oils are super-concentrated. For example, it takes about 16 pounds of fresh peppermint leaves to produce an ounce of essential oil. These oils are key active ingredients and flavors in many common products — candies, syrups, toothpastes, cleaning products, skin creams, lip balms, shampoos, bath salts, and soaps. They are also in many common spices: nutmeg, allspice, thyme, oregano, basil, and savory also all contain essential oils.
Essential oils are also one of the oldest forms of medicine. Believe it or not, most forms of modern-day medication started by scientists, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies extracting the beneficial properties of essential oils. In other words, the vast majority of pharmaceutical drugs started as essential oils that were harvested from plants and other sources. In order to patent products, pharmaceutical companies create synthetic versions.
Common uses for essential oils
1. Use essential oils for natural, self-directed healthcare. If there is one area that makes most people feel powerless, it is healthcare. That shouldn’t be, nor does it have to be! I have helped thousands of people use essential oils to support the body’s wellbeing. If you want to learn, take my free essential oil class and you’ll know exactly what to do.
2. Essential oils provide powerful emotional support. When you are seeking to heal a relationship or seeking to have the strength to move away from a toxic relationship, essential oils literally shift your body chemistry and can change your mood. This enables you to take a step back and do what you need to do to grow and heal.
3. Essential oils are a rapidly growing industry. With everything going on, now is the time start an essential oil business and help people.