Arent essential oils greasy and messy?
Although the name essential oil implies an oily substance, in fact, essential oils are not oily or greasy. We tend to associate essential oils with fatty oils such as olive, sunflower, flax, grape seed, sesame, avocado, etc. Essential oils dont contain any glycerol molecules the molecules that give fatty oils their characteristic slippery texture and leave a greasy residue. Distilled essential oils contain no fat, whereas fatty oils are 100% fat. Rather, essential oils are composed of hundreds of constituents that may have a combined antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, antiseptic and immune-stimulating effect. Most essential oils are clear, but some oils such as patchouli, orange and lemongrass are amber or yellow in color. Others such as blue tansy have a blue cast to the oil.
