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My post is based on the D.Stewart (DS) book “The chemistry of essential oils (EO)made simple. God's love manifests in molecules”.
What everyone needs to know.
#1 SOURCE
A therapeutic grade EO should be from a proper botanical genus, species, and cultivar. No chemical fertilizers are added to the soil, and crop cultivation is free of herbicides and pesticides. EO should be extracted by steam distillation at minimum temp. and pressures, as it was done in ancient times. No chemical solvents are to be used in the extraction process.
#2 DISTILLATION
Distillation must be done using low-pressure, low-temperature steam for the proper length of time to ensure that a complete essential oil is extracted, and that there is no significant loss or exclusion of lighter fractions or heavier fractions. Distillation, condensation, and separation should be performed in vessels constructed of relatively inert materials.
#3 MINIMUM STANDARDS
The chemical profile of the principal constituents in the oil must fall within the parameters of certain minimum standards such as those of ANFOR ( a French Agency). The ISO in Geneva, Switzerland. There are also European Commission standards which also corresponds to ANFOR.
There are NO standards for therapeutic grade essential oils set by any government agency in North America.
At this time, there is only one North American company that sends samples to Europe to ascertain compliance with EC-ANFOR-ISO standards for EO.
#4 Limitations of ANFOR standards
ANFOR standards are only for a minimum profile of compounds and concentrations that must be present in an oil before it can be labeled as such and such a species.
Complete, natural oils are mixtures of hundreds of compounds, but ANFOR-ISO standard focuses only on a few ingredients, usually less than six.
As an example, for an oil to be called “Peppermint Oil” (Mentha piperita) by ANFOR standards it must contain 35-45% mentol, 10-20% menthone, 4-9% methyl acetate, and 3-7% 1.8 cineole. But these are only 4 compounds of hundreds present in a complete, natural oil. An unethical company could synthesize this four compounds, mix them in these proportions with a suitable filler oil and it would pass the ANFOR test.
#4. BEYOND ANFAR standards
The healing properties of an oil also have to do with the way it was grown, harvested, distilled, and packaged. TGEO should be bottled as it comes from the still, with none of its natural constituents removed and with nothing added. The container and its lid, or a seal, must be non-reactive, air tight, and a shield from light, such ad bottles of brown, amber, or blue glass.
95% of essential oils produced for flavor and fragrance and do not fulfill therapeutic standards.
Natural Wintergreen oil is virtually non-existent.
#5 DELIBERATE FRAUD
To be sure you're getting TGEO, you need to know your grower, your distiller, your packager, and your distributor because anywhere along this chain of delivery, oils can be compromised.
A common practice is ti take a decent grade of EO and dilute it 90% to 95% with an odorless, colorless solvent so that what was a pound of good oil becomes ten or twenty pounds of diluted oil to be sold as if it were the original substance. Such diluted oils often carry labels saying “genuine”, or 100% pure” which is allowed by FDA.
#6 FRANKINCENSE OIL
When you see a bottle of fluid labeled Frankincense oil for $10-20 for a fluid ounce, you can be sure it has been diluted because you can't gather the resins from the Arabian and Somalian deserts, transport them to France or England to be distilled, and then import them to North America (or any other country) for that price and maintain quality and purity.
Mysteriosly, for every pound ofFrankincense distilled in the world, more than a dozen pounds are eventually sold.
Pure unadulterated frankincense should cost around $140 per once (2010 prices). In Biblical times, a pound of frankincense oil was more precious than a pond of gold. (Today Edens Garden sells “pure” frankincense oil in 1kg bottles for $1,200)
DS: “I have tested several brands of anointing oils labeled as frankincense and or myrrh sold at Christian bookstores and have not found a single one that is true. When only the common names( Frankincense and Myrrh) are used and the latin names are missing from the label, that a clear warning that the contents are probably not genuine, and certainly not therapeutic”.
Fact: No essential oil has ever been completely analyzed to reveal its every constituent. EOs are do complex, it may never be possible to discover everything that is in even one of them.
Fact: Rose oil is (so far) the most expensive of all oils and had the highest electromagnetic frequency (320 MHz). Thousands of pounds of petals are required to distill even one pound of precious oil.
There are three requirements for an oil to cause an allergic reaction.
That person must have been previously exposed to that oil
That person must have developed antibodies for that particular oil
There must be s hypersensitive reaction upon subsequent exposure to that oil
Pure distilled TGEOs are free from allergens. With few exceptions, alkergens are proteins or polypeptides, both of which are composed of amino acids. Distilled Essential oils contain no proteins, polypeptides, or amino acids, thus contain no potential allergens. In fact, one can be allergic to a particular plant, like fennel ir geranium, but have no allergy to the essential oil distilled from that plant since the volatile oil contains none of the plants proteins or amino acids that are the source of allergic reactions to the plant. An oil pressed (vs.distilled) from seeds or cold expressed from rinds can be alkergenic.
vibration frequencies (Mhz)
Healthy human brain 71-90
Healthy human body 62-68
-when you have common cold 58, the flu 57, candida 55, EBS 52, cancer 42, when you begin to die 25.
Processed or canned food 0
Fresh produce 10-15
Dry herbs 12-22
Fresh herbs 20-27
TGEOs 52-320
