Natural Certified Essential Oils
Essential oils are plant extracts from flowers, fruits, leaves, stems, roots, or bark. The oils comprise the botanical’s active compounds and fragrance—the “essence” of the plant. The highly concentrated oils are used in aromatherapy, topical formulations, and various scented products.
Some of the most well-known oils are rose, sweet almond, lavender, peppermint, tea tree, Ylang Ylang, bergamot, and sandalwood. Oils can be used alone or as ingredients in oil-based scented products. Various essential oils may offer different therapeutic benefits depending on the source. They are believed to treat anxiety and mood, help manage skin conditions, aid digestion, treat headaches, reduce inflammation and infection, boost immunity and energy, and more.
However, how do essential oils work? What is the science behind their potential health and wellness benefits?
The Magic of Essential Oils
While essential oil extraction separates the scent and flavor of the botanical source, its magic lies in its unique fragrance compounds. Primarily inhaled (never swallowed), these elements may impact and stimulate the body’s limbic system in the brain’s cerebrum.
This primitive system – one of the oldest parts of the brain – controls various conscious and unconscious processes, including breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, homeostasis, emotion, behavior, long-term memory, and sense of smell. It’s also linked to the autonomic nervous system, playing a vital role in our reaction to our environment and stress.
How does this relate to essential oils? It has to do with aroma. We’ve all experienced the strong link between smells, memories, and feelings. This mysterious phenomenon is thanks to the limbic system and its numerous inter-relationships.
So, as we inhale a selected array of fragrance compounds, these travel through our olfactory nerve to act on the brain, stimulating associated memories and evoking related positive or negative emotions. Through the influential limbic system, other parts of the body and bodily systems are also potentially positively impacted. The chemicals can also be absorbed via the skin, helping to relax muscles, address skin conditions, and improve skin health.
How Are Essential Oils Created?
Essential oils are derived from plant-based ingredients using distillation. The process can include steam or water. Mechanical methods, such as cold pressing, solvent, and CO2 extraction, are also used. The essence can comprise multiple compounds or one primary element. Essential oils can be potent. So, the extract is combined and diluted with a carrier oil to create a safe and usable product. This precision processing creates superior results and is a science and an intuitive art.
The process starts by sourcing high-quality, pure raw components. Creating essential oils requires a lot of plant material. At best, it takes 15 pounds of source material to derive just one pound of essential oil. In some cases, the ratio of raw product to oil is high. For example, it takes four million jasmine buds to generate one pound of essential oil. While these meticulously made products can be costly, only a little of the concentrated essence is needed.
Elevating Your Portfolio With Premium Essential Oils
Incorporating quality essential oils is critical. At the same time, with no US government agency providing an approved essential oil grading system or certification, sourcing the best extracts can be challenging. How can you ensure the oil you use has been responsibly and properly grown, harvested, and extracted to yield the highest therapeutic grade, guaranteed no impurities and other undesirable ingredients?
One reliable way is to source 100% natural, EU-certified essential oils from Advanced Biotech. Our wide selection of natural botanical extracts is pure, from carefully sourced plant materials, efficiently extracted, and well documented. Contact us today to place your essential oils order, request samples or ask questions.