EOs, FOs and more...

[Guest guest]

Oh, Thank you so much, Heidi, for your response! Well, if essential oils are

used for therapeutic reasons in soaps and toiletries, and I guess, even aromatic

room sprays, when would one use fragrance oils (since they're synthetic), and in

what?

I feel silly because for the longest I had been confused about this weighing

thing. Couldn't figure out if recipes asking for say, ounces, meant in a cup

or, on the scale. From what I can gather from the Candadian weight discussion,

(I'm in the U.S.) one should always way. Now does this mean I just pour some oil

(for instance) in a cup and then set it on the scale (regardless of the

measurement on the cup)? I finally found a nice little inexpensive scale (from

amazon.com) and found that it's measurements are in kg and pounds! Then got a

hold of some recipes and they all called for grams! I couldn't make the

translation into kg to match my scale! (Math has never been my strong suit and

those 00.43 or 0.30 or 00.0475890837 results I get mean nothing to me. :-)

I'm really new to all this and have been lurking a long time trying to get up

the nerve to try stuff. I've been buying EOs and oils, etc., but I have that

don't-wanna-make-a-mistake disease. :-) My face creams have not come out like

I wanted (I've been going for the whipped cream-like effect, instead, have

gotten the kind of grease-like result). Creamy, creamy, creamy.

Finally, I've come across some products called CO2 extracts. What's the skinny

on them? I ordered one just to see and I got a little bitty itsy-bitsy

bottle--I couldn't believe it! It wasn't inexpensive to me! Yikes!

Any ideas--Hay-ulp!

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Be Love,

Berijoy

http://www.egyirba.com

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" We can test until we're blue in the face... "

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On 1/21/2001 at 4:48 PM Heidi Scholes wrote:

:Pure essential oils are extracted from many parts of plants (flower, leaf,

:blossom, petal, resin, tree bark, root, twig, seed, berries, rind, and

:rind,

:and rhizome) Essential oils are natural substances which are extracted via

:distillation from tiny molecular sacs of each plant. The distillation

:extracts the volatile oil from the plant part. Essential oils are highly

:concentrated extracts that contain hormones, vitamins, and antiseptics that

:work on many levels. They can be 75-100 times more concentrated than dried

:herbs, depending on the distillation process used. Their volatility can

:lead

:to an early breakdown of their characteristic aroma. That is why sometimes

:essential oils don't keep their smell for long.

:

:Fragrance oils are for the most parts synthetic compounds and do not

:contain any of the therapeutic qualities.of essential oils. They just smell

:good, and for the most part keep their smell longer.

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:Heidi Scholes

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