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Top Quality Essential Oils

How do you know if essential oils are exceptional quality?

Essential Oils: Quality Should Never be Optional
From Health and Vitality, Summer 2001 pp. 28-29

By Don Halikas

Essential oils are as diverse as the plants they are extracted from. Other factors, however, distinguish one bottle from another, one of the most important being the quality of the final product. That is why, before commencing our journey into the numerous applications of essential oils, I would like to emphasize the reasons that only first rate products should be used for therapeutic purposes, as well as the criteria that will help you select such essential oils.

True essential oils can be hard to find. To be labeled as “authentic”, essential oils must meet all of the following criteria:

-100% natural (preferably from organic or wild plants)
-100% authentic (no components added or removed)
-The steam distillation process must be performed slowly and thoroughly.
-A detailed description of the essential oil’s biochemical compounds (gaseous chromatography combined with mass spectrometry) must be available.

Having said this, how can we choose the right product among all those available in health food stores, and how can we ascertain the quality of those essential oils? For my part, I base my choice on four different categories of information:

1. Complete Latin name, genus and species
Lavender (lavandula)
is a very popular and common essential oil. However, the genus Lavandula comprises approximately 50 different species – such as Lavandula angustifolia, lavandula latifolia, or lavandula stoechas – all producing distinct essential oils, thus bearing different therapeutic properties. Needless to say, it can be risky or even dangerous to neglect such classification while selecting an oil. Do not even consider buying an essential oil for therapeutic use if the label only reads “Lavender”, “Thyme” or “Rosemary”

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2. Distilled Part
Harmonious & Synergistic Combinations

The composition of an essential oil does not vary only according to the plant’s botanical species and genus. Another significant element is the part of the plant from which the oil is extracted: root, bark, flower, fruit, leaf, gum resin, etc. Below are two examples that illustrate the importance of this information. 

Citrus reticulate (Mandarin)

- Peel: contains 0-0.85% of the n-methyl anthranilate – mild antispasmodic

- Leaf: contains 50% of n-mehtyl anthranilate – powerful antispasmodic

- Cinnamomum verum (cinnamon) 

- Root: bornoene or camphor – nerurotixic

- Bark: cinnamic aldehyde – aphrodisiac, anti-infectious

- Leaf: eugenol – analgesic, anti-infectious

3. Chemotype (chemical type)
Recognized internationally and prevalent among scientific publications, the concept of chemotype cannot be dissociated from aromatherapy.

Chemotypes help scientist to define which essential oil molecules are biochemically active for various pathologies. The association of a Latin scientific denomination and a chemotye allows us to fully understand the action of essential oils, and therefore optimize the use of this powerful, efficient natural therapy. 

But why is it worthwhile to ascertain the chemotype of an essential oil? Simply because a particular aromatic plant, even from a specific botanical species will produce and essence that will vary according to the biotope in which it has grown. Altitude, sunlight, climate, type of soil, surrounding plant population and geographical location composition of the essence extracted from a plant. Two different chemotypes will not only result in different therapeutic properties, their level of toxicity might also vary notably. 

Pierre Franchomme demonstrates this variation between two chemotypes from the same botanical species with the following example:

Frist chemotype: Thymus vularis C.T. thujanol (commone thujanol tyme)
In addition to its potent anti-infectious properties, this essential oil stimulates and regenerates the liver. It is completely safe and devoid of any side effects. 

Second chemotype: Thymus vularis C.T. thymol (common thymol thyme)
This powerful antibacterial essential oil is known to be caustic to the skin and hepotatoxic at high doses and / or with prolonged use.

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4. Price

Not one oil is identical to the another – and neither are their costs. A wide range of criteria influence the price of each essential oil, quality being one of them. However, other factors, such as the quantity of plants required to extract a certain amount of essential oil, have an even greater effect on its price. As an example, here are the quantities of plants/flowers required to distill one litre of the following essential oils:

- 4000 to 12,000 kilos of balm (Melissa officinalis)
- 3500 to 4000 kilos of Damask roses (rosa damascene). This represents more than one hectare of roses!
- 150 kilos of true lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
- 50 kilos of lavandin (Lavandula hybrida)
- 6 to 7 kilos of cloves (Eugeniacaryophyllus)

Make sure the price is appropriate when buying high-priced essential oils such as chamomile, rose or helichysum.

To sum up our little investigation, here are the elements that should appear on a first rate essential oil label:
-The complete Latin name (Genus and species)
-The distilled part (bark, leaf, flowering plant, root, etc.)
-The chemotype (the main active molecule(s): camphor, linalool, cineol, etc.)
-Preferably lot number and harvest year.

Some suppliers might not print all the information on their labels, but can still provide you additional information on request. Do not hesitate to investigate the products when your health is at stake.

Conclusion

Having made the above-mentioned recommendations about essential oils and their quality, I hope you will ascertain th4eir potential and integrate them in your everyday life. Using essential oils for therapeutic purposes might look complicated at first. It usually works best to begin by exploring each condition or each essential oil one by one. Afterwards, a good reference book will help you to identify ten or so essential oils that suit your needs the best, before adding others to your medicine cabinet.

The next article will present some of the precautions to take while using essential oils, as well as protocols for mouth and gum diseases. In the meantime, do not be shy to inquire and experiment further with your essential oils.