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The same is true for plants grown to produce essential oils — the highest quality oils can only be produced from plants naturally grown without the use of artificial fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides.

Just as important is the production method. The highest quality oils are produced by steam distillation. Other methods such as solvent extraction or carbon dioxide (super-critical extraction) produce oils with different chemical profiles and therefore different properties.

Temperature, pressure and chemicals added to the boiler water all play a critical role in the production of high quality oils. The time allowed to elapse between harvest and distillation is also critical and therefore, having the distillation plant on the farm, or mobile, is a great advantage in maintaining quality.

Less than 2% of the total world production of essential oil can be termed as THERAPEUTIC-GRADE.

the French model uses the oils neat and by ingestion for medicinal purposes.

Whichever of these methods is chosen, it is imperative that the oils be 100% NATURAL, 100% PURE, and be what is termed THERAPEUTIC-GRADE or in some countries, PHARMACEUTICAL GRADE. This means they have ALL of the correct constituents in the same proportions as intended by nature.

With advances in science, all constituents can now be made synthetically, however, the body handles synthetics differently from natural, therefore the effects  and the results are different.

Over the past 60 or so years, agricultural practices throughout the world have changed. We have been conditioned into

falsely believing that ‘chemical is best’ when in fact the chemical system produces plants which

are lacking in certain trace elements and other vital

nutrients which animals and humans require for optimum health.

Essential oils have more than 6000 years of history. They were man’s first medicine and there are over 200 references to essential oils in the bible.

They are natural plant extracts  i.e. aromatic, volatile liquids, distilled from plants, shrubs, trees, roots, seeds and flowers.

An essential oil generally comprises between .4 and 3% of the plant material and is, itself, comprised of hundreds of other constituents. Clary sage, for example, has around 800 different constituents.

Essential oils contain molecules that are highly oxygenating and assist in the delivery of nutrients to the cell nucleus for maximum assimilation. They are much more powerful than the herb itself.

Essential oils may be used in many ways: the English method is to dilute them in a carrier oil and apply in massage; the German method is to inhale and allow them to work directly on the limbic system of the brain;