Essential oils are growing in popularity due to their pleasant aroma and various home uses. However, the purity of essential oils is important in ensuring that they are as effective as possible. To ensure that your essential oils are of high quality, it is important that you learn the signs of essential oils and check for them.
Checking Before You Buy
- Compare the prices of the essential oils: Some flowers or plants taken
with essential oils require a large amount to pick up one drop of oil. For
roses, it takes about 60 roses to make one drop of oil, and this should be
reflected in the price of oil. An unusually low price is usually a sign that
the oil has been purified in some way, making it less pure.
- Ask your supplier about the purity of their oils and the
distilling process: Try to buy from a supplier who delivers their oil, or works
directly with the distiller that makes it. Providers should be willing to give
you a sample (perhaps for a small fee) before encouraging you to buy larger
prices. This shows that they are confident about their product and believe that
if you try it you will buy it.
- Check the inclusion of a statement of chastity: There should be a statement
on the packaging of the oil i.e. “100% Pure” oil or similar to this. If not, it
may be mixed or mixed with something else.
- Search for oil by the name of the plant from which it is
derived:
Being able to read the label and identify the composition of the oil plant is
the first step to buying quality oil. The general rule of thumb is to buy The Latin name, which can be found by searching the plant online, as this is often
very specific.
Blot Paper Test:
Since essential oils contain no oil, most of them do
not leave a greasy mark on the blotting paper, just as a drop of other oils we
know, such as corn oil.
Therefore, to
test the purity of essential oils at home, here is a simple test:
- On a piece of paper, write down the name of the essential oil for your convenience by drawing a circle next to it.
- With a glass dropper, add one drop of essential oil to the drawn circle.
- The oil can take up to 30 minutes - 2 hours to dry. Check for oily ring/mark near the drop. If there is an oil rig, the oil can be mixed. If there is no oily mark, the oil is pure.
Blotting paper tests only gives you an idea but is not
a sure-shot idea. You can only test water white/ clear oils such as Eucalyptus
oil. This test is not valid for essential oils that have their own
characteristic colors like Orange oil or cinnamon oil.
Choosing A Supplier
These are suggestions that I have found to be repeated
from several sources. Not all of these requirements need to be met privately,
but there are some important ones here that may be of interest to you.
Aim for suppliers
that:
- Dedicated to supplying essential oils to the aromatherapy staff market.
- Have a close relationship with their distillers.
- Are products managed by an aromatherapy doctor or an essential oil specialist.
- Can easily and clearly provide a batch-specific MS / GC spec report on each of the essential oils it sells.
- They are able to provide security data sheets (MSDS) as needed.
- Has a good reputation in the field and is well-known to other aromatherapy practitioners or educators.
The bottom line
Providers will not claim to sell low-quality or
contaminated essential oils, so it is important to learn to recognize through clever
marketing.
Look for essential oils sold in dark glass bottles
with plain Latin name, parts of used plants, type of extraction, growth method,
complete content and traditional country.
Get rid of plastic bottles, labels with vague or
minimal details (or those with pictures of a completely different plant than
what is said!), And anything labeled “fragrant oil.”
It is a good idea to talk to your health care provider
about using essential oils if you have not already done so. A naturopath (ND),
a certified aromatherapist, or a certified clinical herbalist can also be very
helpful in your essential oil journey.
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