Does the quality of an essential oil matter?
Um yes! Immensely. Most essential oils are produced for the food and perfume industry, both of which, until now, have demanded that the essential oils be identical year to year. In order to keep the scents and flavors identical, many commercial essential oils use chemical additives or imitations–natural or synthetic–to match what is expected. But life is change. Weather varies. Plants vary. Crops vary. And so, then, do essential oils. Unfortunately, many substances marketed as pure essential oils, have fake stuff in them, stuff that makes them smell like what the label says it is, but stuff that is not, in reality, what the label says. Likewise, sometimes some of the plant’s naturally occurring chemicals are removed to have the substance smell more like what people think it should smell like. And that’s the fake kind of stuff that makes many of us sneeze. And that’s the stuff that I don’t use in Aardvark Essentials.
