5 signs of that essential oil not natural

It is more difficult to buy good essential oil, than it seems. Under the guise of a clean product and often anything absolutely expensively can be on sale, for example, oil mix or, it is worse than that, harmful chemistry. There are signs by which it is possible to determine that essential oil not natural.

Essential oils are incredibly popular now. They are added to industrial cosmetics, self-made means for leaving, by treatments, use in an aromatherapy and even in cookery. "In all cases we actually use essential oil inside — Anna says to Gusinskaya Dikamp, the expert in the biocertified products, the curator of the Alchemilla project. — Exactly there, deep into our organism, this means as a result gets, kind of we used it, whether in composition of cosmetic medicine, massage cream or for the aromalamp. Therefore and it is correct to choose it extremely important. Oils fully synthetic or with addition of chemistry are dangerous already because are for the present poorly studied, and nobody for certain knows how they affect mentality and human health in general. Having bought low-quality or counterfeit essential oil it is possible to gain effect exactly opposite to the desirable".

By what signs it is possible to determine that the essential oil which attracted to you not natural?

1. Oil leaves a fat mark

Actually what we call essential oil oil per se is not. Air is flying maslopodobny substances. They do not mix up with water and quickly evaporate, without leaving fat spots. Essential oils often add to natural vegetable, received from nuts, seeds or vegetables. It is accepted to call such oils basic. "It is not difficult to distinguish pure essential oil from mixed with basic — Jade Shats, the president of National association of a holistic aromatherapy says. — Drip means on the sheet of white white paper. If after drying there was a fat ring, before you mix. An exception — essential oils of heavier consistence: sandal-wood tree, vetiver, German camomile, patchouli. At them and color of nasyshchenny, is deeper".

2. Too low price

Though high price — yet not a guarantee that before you the real essential oil, too low cost is also suspicious. To receive even a small amount of air, it is required to process the considerable volume of vegetable raw materials. And if it also rare plants, essential oil cannot be cheap by definition. "There is a number of oils, for example, lavenders, rosemary or wild orange which production not too expensive, respectively and the price of them is not really high — Jade Shats says. — And here essential oils of a rose, a jasmine, a melissa, immortelle are very expensive". Before buying essential oil in shop or on the Internet, be not too lazy to study the price of it in several places. Having conducted a small research, you will have a prestavleniye about the reasonable price for this or that product.

3. On packing there is no Latin name

On a vial of the real essential oil the name of a plant has to be specified in Latin. "Besides there has to be information on what part of a plant (leaves, a root, inflorescences) went to its production — Anna Gusinskaya says. — Specify also a method of receiving oil (for example, steam distillation)". If on the label only "essential oil of a lavender" flaunts, know that before you a product which for this oil of only gives out. This more likely perfumery means with a lavender smell. Vegetable components can be present at it or be absent. But anyway this "oil" has no curative properties of the present radio. Anna of Gusinskaya Dikamp advises to remember that natural essential oils of a linden, a lily of the valley, a lilac, the peony, flowers of an apple-tree, cherry, mango, strawberry, a guava or fig does not exist at all.

4. Plastic or transparent, big container

The real essential oils pack in dark glass. With plastic biologically active components of means can enter interaction. "Dark blue or brown glass reliably protects contents from influence of solar radiation — Jade Shats says. — Take an interest also as the seller of oil stores. They have to be in the cool place. High temperature is capable to change chemical properties of air". The container of high-quality oil, as a rule, has the special batcher on a neck that it was easier to measure the necessary dose. This adaptation also protects essential oil from interaction with air. According to Anna Gusinskoy-Dikamp, the real essential oils are on sale in containers of small volume, from 1 to 10 ml. Too big bottle has to guard. Solid producers will surely specify the lot number and the address on packing.

5. Oil fat to the touch

Apply a drop of any vegetable oil on a fingertip, and on a small pillow of another drip radio. Then rub both oils in skin, listen to the feelings and compare. "Unlike base oil, clean radio a little slippery, but not fat and not heavy — Jade Shats says. — Exceptions are here as we already know, air of more saturated consistence: sandal-wood tree, vetiver, German camomile and patchouli".

Now you know how to calculate a fake. But also natural essential oils not everything are equally good. Their quality in many respects depends on initial vegetable raw materials. "For this reason it makes sense to buy them in shops of organic goods — Anna says to Gusinskaya Dikamp. — Bioorganic essential oils are not only concentrates of primitive natural power. In them with guarantee there are no synthetic components and solvents, gasoline, traces of regulators of growth, pesticides, fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, nematitsid and other harmful substances. Yes, all above-mentioned can be found in usual, let and 100% natural essential oils!" Therefore look for organic means it is desirable with the strict certificate: demeter (not to confuse with the pseudo-natural perfumery Demeter!), with cosmetic certificates "bio" or green Evrolist.

One more good option — oils with marking of wild-craftet. "This means that initial material for them was built in the field, to the wood, but is not grown up by the person — Jade Shats says. — It is improbable that wild plants were affected by fertilizers and other chemistry.

Organic essential oils, of course, stand much more expensive. If you are not ready to expensive purchases, do not save at least on those oils in which the probability of presence of harmful substances, in particular oils of a citrus is high. They precisely should be bought in shops of organic chemistry".