Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
This is how SERIOUS Young Living has on maintaining the quality of its oils
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https://www.youngliving.com/en_US/company/scientificadvisorycouncil
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
What is essential oil
An essential oil is that aromatic, volatile liquid that is within many shrubs, flowers,
trees, roots, bushes, and seeds and that is usually extracted through steam
distillation.
The chemistry of an essential oil is very complex and may consist of hundreds of different and unique chemical compounds. Moreover, essential oils are highly concentrated and far more potent than dried herbs because of the distillation process that makes them so concentrated. It requires a large volume of plant material to produce small amounts of a distilled essential oil. For example, it takes 5,000 pounds of rose petals to produce 1 kilo of rose oil.
Essential oils are also diferent from vegetable oils such as corn oil, peanut oil, and olive oil. Vegetable oils are greasy and may clog the pores. They also oxidize and become rancid over time and have no antibacterial properties. Most essential oils, on the other hand, do not go rancid and are powerful antimicrobials. Essential oils that are high in plant waxes, such as patchouli, vetiver, and sandalwood, if not distilled properly, could go rancid after time, particularly if exposed to heat for extended periods of time.
Essential oils are not simple substances. Each oil is a complex structure of hundreds of diferent chemicals. A single essential oil may contain anywhere from 80 to 300 or more diferent chemical constituents. An essential oil like lavender is very complex with many of its constituents occurring in minute quantities-but all contributing to the oil's therapeutic efects to some degree. To understand these constituents and their functions requires years of study.
Additionally, essential oils can be distilled or extracted in diferent ways that will have dramatic efects on their chemistry and medicinal action. Oils derived from a second or third distillation of the same plant material are usually not as potent as oils extracted during the frst distillation. Yet with certain oils, there may be additional chemical constituents that are released only in the second or third distillation.
How Essential Oils Work
Essential oils are volatile liquids and aromatic compounds found within shrubs, fowers, trees, roots, bushes, and seeds that are usually extracted through steam distillation.
The moment we inhale the oils, the odor molecules travel up the nose where they are trapped by olfactory membranes that are protected by the lining inside the nose. Each odor molecule fits like a little puzzle piece into specific receptor cell sites that line a membrane, known as the olfactory epithelium. This lining of nerve cells triggers electrical impulses to the olfactory bulb in the brain. The olfactory bulb then transmits the impulses to the gustatory center (where the sensation of taste is perceived), the amygdala (where emotional memories are stored), and other parts of the limbic system of the brain.
The chemistry of an essential oil is very complex and may consist of hundreds of different and unique chemical compounds. Moreover, essential oils are highly concentrated and far more potent than dried herbs because of the distillation process that makes them so concentrated. It requires a large volume of plant material to produce small amounts of a distilled essential oil. For example, it takes 5,000 pounds of rose petals to produce 1 kilo of rose oil.
Essential oils are also diferent from vegetable oils such as corn oil, peanut oil, and olive oil. Vegetable oils are greasy and may clog the pores. They also oxidize and become rancid over time and have no antibacterial properties. Most essential oils, on the other hand, do not go rancid and are powerful antimicrobials. Essential oils that are high in plant waxes, such as patchouli, vetiver, and sandalwood, if not distilled properly, could go rancid after time, particularly if exposed to heat for extended periods of time.
Essential oils are not simple substances. Each oil is a complex structure of hundreds of diferent chemicals. A single essential oil may contain anywhere from 80 to 300 or more diferent chemical constituents. An essential oil like lavender is very complex with many of its constituents occurring in minute quantities-but all contributing to the oil's therapeutic efects to some degree. To understand these constituents and their functions requires years of study.
Additionally, essential oils can be distilled or extracted in diferent ways that will have dramatic efects on their chemistry and medicinal action. Oils derived from a second or third distillation of the same plant material are usually not as potent as oils extracted during the frst distillation. Yet with certain oils, there may be additional chemical constituents that are released only in the second or third distillation.
How Essential Oils Work
Essential oils are volatile liquids and aromatic compounds found within shrubs, fowers, trees, roots, bushes, and seeds that are usually extracted through steam distillation.
The moment we inhale the oils, the odor molecules travel up the nose where they are trapped by olfactory membranes that are protected by the lining inside the nose. Each odor molecule fits like a little puzzle piece into specific receptor cell sites that line a membrane, known as the olfactory epithelium. This lining of nerve cells triggers electrical impulses to the olfactory bulb in the brain. The olfactory bulb then transmits the impulses to the gustatory center (where the sensation of taste is perceived), the amygdala (where emotional memories are stored), and other parts of the limbic system of the brain.
Because the limbic system is directly connected to the parts of the brain
that control heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, memory, stress levels, and
hormone balance, therapeutic-grade essential oils can have profound
physiological and psychological effects. The sense of smell is the only one of
the five senses directly linked to the limbic lobe of the brain, our emotional
control center.
How many ways can
essential oils afect your daily life? An Austrian study reported that inhaling
the odors of orange and lavender essential oils in a dental office reduced
anxiety and improved mood. Applying the essential oils of bergamot, lavender,
and frankincense in sweet almond carrier oil in hand massage was found to have
a positive effect on pain and depression in hospice patients with terminal
cancer. And fnally, patients in a Taiwan hospital with symptoms of irritable
bowel disease improved signifcantly after ingesting enteric-coated peppermint
oil capsules compared to those who received a placebo.
About Young Living Essential Oil
Dr Gary Young (Founder of Young Living) established the term “therapeutic-grade,” now known as Young Living Therapeutic Grade™ (YLTG), as a guarantee that Young Living will only sell 100% pure, natural, uncut oils that maintain the vital therapeutic potency.
As Gary traveled the world studying the distillation of pure essential oils, he saw wide discrepancies in quality and learned that in order to ensure purity and potency, expert, rigorous analysis of finished oils was critical.
Today, using gas chromatography (GC) and mass spectrometry (MS) analysis, the phytochemical profile of every batch of Young Living essential oils is measured to evaluate each specific plant compound. Certain plant compounds must meet or exceed specific levels to ensure the oil is natural, pure, and therapeutic-grade. Only then does Young Living guarantee the oil will provide the desired results and label it Young Living Therapeutic Grade™ (YLTG). Only therapeutic grade EO can be ingested and alleviate symptoms and illness.
About Young Living Essential Oil
Dr Gary Young (Founder of Young Living) established the term “therapeutic-grade,” now known as Young Living Therapeutic Grade™ (YLTG), as a guarantee that Young Living will only sell 100% pure, natural, uncut oils that maintain the vital therapeutic potency.
As Gary traveled the world studying the distillation of pure essential oils, he saw wide discrepancies in quality and learned that in order to ensure purity and potency, expert, rigorous analysis of finished oils was critical.
Today, using gas chromatography (GC) and mass spectrometry (MS) analysis, the phytochemical profile of every batch of Young Living essential oils is measured to evaluate each specific plant compound. Certain plant compounds must meet or exceed specific levels to ensure the oil is natural, pure, and therapeutic-grade. Only then does Young Living guarantee the oil will provide the desired results and label it Young Living Therapeutic Grade™ (YLTG). Only therapeutic grade EO can be ingested and alleviate symptoms and illness.
Brief History of essential oils
For thousands of years,
essential oils have been used by mankind for many purposes. The Egyptians were one of the earliest known cultures to
use essential oils. The oils were used
for several reasons in everyday life for these people; they were used for
religious as well as for cosmetic and medicinal purposes. Similarly in China, there were also records
of the usage of these plant extracts for medicinal and aesthetics purposes.
These plant extracts were known as ‘essential oils’ only in
the early 20th century by Rene Maurice Gattefosse. He was interested in the medicinal value of
these plant extracts. The usage of these
essential oils for aromatic, therapeutic and cosmetics benefits continued to
gain popularity over the years.
For more information, please refer to http://www.aromaweb.com/articles/history.asp
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