Q: What is the county of origin of the **** oil you sell? I received an order of this last week and the oil has a slightly different odour than the previous bottle I bought from you. If this from the same supplier/producer?
Thank you,
M
A: Both batches are same supplier, from XXX, but different distillations. Essential oils will vary somewhat in their composition and therefore, scent based on the year, distiller, method and batch.
If you need absolute consistency, then you want an adulterated commercial aka food grade or perfumery grade where constituents have been taken apart, and then reconstituted according to a formula. So you want a "natural fragrance" not an essential oil.
95% of essential oils produced are broken down for use in the cosmetic, food and fragance industries. These commercial grades are adulterated (meaning not essential oils AS IS) and therefore are no longer essential oils.
To top off this shocking news, ALL of those 5% of essential oils that remain intact AS IS are "therapeutic grade". So no matter how cheap, or badly grown or produced or packaged, they are all therapeutic grade.
* 95% of essential oils produced are taken apart or adulterated to create commercial grades.
* ALL essential oils are pure by definition.
* ALL essential oils that remain AS IS are therapeutic grade.
* Therapeutic grade essential oils can be bad, fair, good, or great quality, ethically or unethically produced, usually grown without pesticides but much less often certified organically grown and so on.
Multi level marketers love to perpetuate myths about essential oils and insinuate that only "THEIR" essential oils are Therapeutic Grade, or worse "Food Grade".
My pet peeve: A brand insinuating that it grows and produces all of its essential oils. I am often asked if I distill my "own" essential oils. The truth is that specific plants grow in their own climates, conditions and therefore particular parts of the world. And acres and acres of plant materials are required to distill a commercially viable batch of essential oil. In addition, each plant requires a specific way to distill it. So if a brand does own plantations all over the world in order to distill "their own" essential oils, then they are a global corporation... and that's not the message they want you to receive when they claim to make all of their own essential oils!
Anarres essential oils, carrier oils and hydrosols come from artisans and communities, expertly growing and distilling plants where they belong.