What is an essential oil ?
Whether your passion or not essential oils, aromatherapy sets up more and more in our homes for the well-being and health it brings.
The phytoaromathérapie therapy is the oldest in the world. It has always existed since plants not ever stop beings used as spice plants, medicinal and ceremonial purposes.
Today, essential oils are increasingly recognized for their powerful anti-infective properties and are used as a natural alternative to promote our well-being in everyday life.
What is an essential oil ?
An essential oil is an extract liquid, volatile and highly aromatic, obtained naturally from a plant, and which concentrates the active treatment. The essential oils (ET) is a kind of plant Quintessa, a "super concentrate"!
The essential oils because of their composition have the option of limiting the proliferation of germs and leave it up to the body to stay active and participate in his defense as opposed to antibiotics. An essential oil is composed of several hundreds of molecules. This family of assets prevents microbes to adapt and become resistant
The use of essential oils was thus developed, particularly after the intervention of European governments, the medical and scientific community have pointed to the danger posed by taking antibiotics too often causing the weakening of our system immune resistance of bacteria.
Nature in its wisdom has thought of everything, including how to fight against some germs respecting the field of the individual and limiting resistors.
Yet it is that these products are of high quality.
Quality essential oils
The activity ofessential oil on a particular germ can be characterized and visualized by a aromatogramme. Like sensitivity, it can verify the effectiveness of an essential oil on a seed ..
OLISOEPTIL is the first range presented in capsules to maximize the bioavailability of essential oils, while facilitating their practical use. All product line consists of a complex of essential oils carefully selected for their own activities, controlled * chemotyped and characterized for their purity. They enjoy the HECT label.
* The chemotype classification is a form of chemical, biological and botanical designating the molecule mainly present in an essential oil. This classification depends on factors related directly to specific living conditions of the plant to know the country, climate, soil,Exposure of plants, factors phytosociological and the harvest period which can influence the composition of the essential oil, we speak of an essential oil chemotyped: HECT. Only knowledge of chemotype can be a guarantee of quality of treatment and job security of an essential oil. This notion is fundamental in aromatherapy.
How to obtain an essential oil?
The plant species, fragile products, aromatic and volatile, are synthesized by the plant kingdom. They are found in all parts botanical (plants, leaves, flowers, fruit, wood, roots, seeds ...). It is through the extraction of these species that we get the ESSENTIAL OIL
Three methods are used to obtain an essential oil 100% pure and natural used in aromatherapy.
- The cold expression peel: this mechanical process is used only for citrus. Essential oils contain the extracted non-volatile compounds (beta-carotene, steroids, fatty acids ...).
- The steam distillation is used for all other plants, regardless of the amount used. This method of distilling the most reliable.
- The distillation solvent. This solvent extraction chemical denatures oils essntielles causing them to lose much of their virtues.