Essential Oils From America

Posted by Jane Hemphill on September 4th, 2008 at 08:06am

Essential Oils are the fragrant highly concentrated, volatile extracts from flowers, leaves, spices, fruits, woods and roots, each with its own benefits to the body and mind. They are the foundation of aromatherapy and the Aroma Vera line. Essential oils are highly concentrated, volatile (evaporate quickly) plant extracts that contain hundreds of organic constituents and other natural elements. Essential oils carry the beneficial properties of the plants they were derived from and provide a natural form of herbal energy. Essential oils are used in aromatherapy, massage therapy and in other alternative therapies. They’re available in small vials in health food stores and online, and can also be found in products such as soaps, lotions, bath salts and candles.

In the United States, the most economically important sources of domestically produced essential oils are industrial by-products from citrus, balsam fir, pine, and cedarwood while the most important crops grown in the U.S. A significant quantity of the essential oil imported into the U.S. Pure essential oils are expensive to create, especially pure organic essential oils. Essential oils are extracted drop by drop from our natural surroundings including grass, fruit, leaves, roots, flowers, and trees. Unless noted (extended) all our essential oils are 100% pure botanical oils without any added water, alcohol or other diluents. We offer two sizes: quarter ounce and half ounce.

Essential oils are the core of the science of aromatherapy, which provides base for this fragrant treatment. Aromatherapy uses essential oils, that everyone knows commonly but do you actually know what essential oils actually are? Depending on the species of plant, essential oils are extracted from the petals, leaves, roots, buds, twigs, rhizomes, wood, bark, resin or fruit. In a few cases, every part of the plant growing above ground is used. Essential oils are not recommended for nursing mothers.

Sometimes essential oils are altered by adding synthetic chemicals or other, similar smelling, essential oils or they are sometimes diluted with vegetable oil. Look for language indicating purity on the label. Mountain Rose Herbs essential oils are processed from freshly harvested material within clean distilleries, thus promising you some of the most magnificent oils available on the market. We invite you to “smell test” our line of oils with what is currently being offered in the market, and experience for yourself the unsurpassable nature of our oils. They differ significantly from the well-known vegetable, nut and seed oils which are made up of various fatty acids (essential oils are not). Essential oils are used by the plants in somewhat the same way they are by humans - they fight infection, contain hormone-like compounds, initiate cellular regeneration, and work as chemical defense against fungal, viral, and animal foes.

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