Thursday, July 11, 2013

Essential oils



Essential oils are natural aromatic compounds found in the seeds, bark, stems, roots, flowers, and other parts of plants. They can be equally delightfully and impressively fragrant. If you have ever enjoyed the reward of a rose, a walk by a field of lavender, or the smell of fresh cut mint, you have skilled the aromatic qualities of essential oils. In totaling to giving plants their distinctive smells, essential oils provide plants with protection against predators and disease and play a responsibility in plant pollination. 

Essential Oils




Essentialoils are non water-based phytochemicals made up of volatile aromatic compounds. Even though they are fat soluble, they do not get in fatty lipids or acids found in vegetable and animal oils. Essential oils are very fresh, almost crisp, to the touch and are immediately absorbed by the skin. unpolluted, unadulterated essential oils are transparent and range in color from crystal clear to deep blue. 


Usually if we  press the peel of a full-grown orange. The fragrant remains on our hand is filled of essential oils.


In adding simultaneously to their intrinsic benefits to plants and being beautifully fragrant to people, essential oils have been used throughout history in many cultures for their medicinal and therapeutic benefits. Up-to-the-minute scientific study and trends towards supplementary holistic approaches to wellness are driving a renewal and new discovery of essential oil healthiness applications.