How to be Sure your Essential Oils are Therapeutic Grade
While not everyone has ready access to scientific analysis of essential oils, these questions can help you determine if a product is therapeutic grade:
- Are the fragrances subtle, rich, organic, and delicate? Do they feel natural?
- Do the fragrances vary from batch to batch as an indication that they are pure and painstakingly distilled in small batches rather than industrially processed and mixed on a large scale?
- Does your supplier grow and distill its own organically grown herbs?
- Are the distillation facilities part of the farm where the herbs are grown so they are freshly distilled - or do the herbs lose their potency as they wait for weeks to be transported and processed?
- Does your supplier use low pressure and low temperature to distill essential oils and preserve all of their fragile chemical constituents?
- Are the distillation cookers vertical rather than horizontal?
- Are they fabricated from costly stainless steel alloys to reduce the likelihood of the oils chemically reacting with metal?
- Does your supplier have representatives traveling worldwide to personally inspect the fields and distilleries where the herbs are grown and distilled?
- Does your supplier buy directly from the grower?
- Does your supplier scrutinize the facilities to ensure that no synthetic chemicals are used?
