What Is A Therapeutic- Grade Essential Oil?

What Is Therapeutic-Grade Essential Oil?

One of the factors that determines the purity of an oil is its chemical constituents or properties. These constituents can be affected by a vast number of variables, including: the part(s) of the plant from which the oils was produced, soil condition, fertilizer (organic or chemical), geographical region, climate, altitude, harvesting methods, and distillation processes.

For example common thyme (Thymus Vulgaris) produces several different chemo types )biochemically unique variants within one species), depending on the conditions of its growth, climate, and altitude. One chemo type of thyme will yield an essential oil with high levels of thymol, depending on the time of year it is distilled. The later it is distilled in the growing season (mid summer or fall). The more thymol the oil will contain. The action Thymol has is that it is highly antimicrobial, antifungal, antiviral, uterine tonic, cardiotonic.

The key to producing a Therapeutic-Grade Essential Oil is to preserve as many of the delicate aromatic compounds within the essential oil as possible. Fragile aromatic chemicals are easily destroyed by high temperature and pressure as well as contact with chemically reactive metals, such as copper or aluminum.

This is why all Therapeutic-Grade Essential Oil should be distilled in stainless steel cooking chambers at a low pressure and low temperature.

This is one of the reason I am letting you know why it is so important to know that there is a difference in Pure Therapeutic-Grade Essential Oils and other grades of essential oils. Why when someone who may use lavender for instance, does not get the disired effect they thought they would get, and call it snake oil. It's because it is inferior, the molecules have been fractored making it a low grade oil.

In distilling essential oil, it is not just a job, it is an ART. The operator of the distiller must have a full understanding of the value of the oil in order to produce the highest quality of oil. Oils that are subjected to high heat and pressure have a distinctly simpler and inferior profile of chemical constituents, since excessive heat and temperature fractures and breaks down many of the delicate aromatic compounds within the oil--some of which are responsible for its therapeutic action can make it useless and can be harmful. When that happens then you no longer have therapeutic-grade essential oil. Also the length of time in distilling is very crucial.

For instance:
Cypress: takes 2000 lbs. to get 1 lb of oil, distilled at 0 pressure and 2200 degrees, when finished it contains 280 aromatic compounds.

If it is distilled for 20 hours you only get 20 of the 280 properties.

If distilled for 26 hours you get 0 properties.

The correct length of time for distilling Cypress is 24 hours, which gives you the full 280 aromatic compounds.

Most distillers distill Cypress for only 3 1/2 hours. So are you going to get any value out of that Cypress? No your not! That is why it is important to know the difference between pure Therapeutic-Grade Essential Oil vs other oils. They can say they are pure, which they have the right, if there is one drop of pure oil in the bottle. But most of the time when you ask how it was distilled they can not tell you.


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