Does your essential oil supplier use 9 sneaky tricks and impurities commonly used to boost profits? Unfortunately, not all essential oils are created equal. In fact, many if not all oils on the market are what are called “perfume quality” or “fourth and fifth quality oils.”
These are over-processed, chemical-laden, highly impure, and deteriorating products that are really just cheap perfumes made from a variety of foul-smelling plants. These include oils found in health food stores. Many people think that if you buy an oil labeled “100% pure,” you are getting a good oil. This is not true.
Pure, pure Essential Oils India are very difficult to obtain and can be very expensive. One reason for this is that it can take 500 to 2,000 pounds or more of raw plant material to produce one pound of essential oil.
Fact – Chemical additives destroy the molecular structure of essential oils and alter their chemical composition, thus destroying their therapeutic properties. And, of course, the chemicals themselves can pose health risks.
9 Dirty Tricks Essential Oil Suppliers Are Using To Boost Their Profits:
1. A common way to increase the amount of oil is to add alcohol, propylene glycol or acetate to the distilled essential oil.
2. Some oil producers add synthetic oil to so-called “pure” oil.
3. Some oil producers don’t actually add chemicals to their oil. Instead, the distillation process injects a chemical solvent into the water in the boiler, increasing production by about 18%. Imagine what happens to essential oils when a chemical is added to water, boiled to steam, and then forced to extract the oil from a plant. It is impossible for essential oils extracted in this way to not contain at least some of these chemical additives.
4. Many essential oils are produced by solvent extraction and can be labeled as “pure” essential oils. In the solvent extraction process, the essential oil is extracted by immersing the plant in a chemical solvent such as hexane, petroleum benzine, ether, or carbon tetrachloride. This extraction process destroys the healing properties of essential oils and poses health risks due to residual chemical additives left in the essential oils it produces.
5. Redistilling plant material: Essential oil producers often redistill plant material in five or six distillations to increase their profits. They store the first distillation for true therapeutic grade essential oils, then sell the second, third, etc. to the unsuspecting public. Imagine using a tea bag over and over again. The first tea tastes great, but the second is barely good. Not to mention 3, 4 and 5.