Essential Oil Selection Tips
Apr 04, 2022
Essential Oil Selection Tips
1. Selection by appearance label: There are international requirements for the appearance label labeling of essential oils. The product label usually needs to include: the common name of the plant variety (the language used in the country of production and sales), the scientific name of the plant variety (must be in Latin), the extraction part, the extraction method, the place of origin, the purity, the capacity, etc. Packaging usually uses dark dark glass bottles.
2. Choose from familiar flavors: some varieties that we can come into contact with every day can help us judge the overall quality of the brand from one aspect, even the same variety of essential oils, due to the difference in origin, extraction method, season and year, will Has a different smell, but still retains the aroma characteristic of the essential oil of this variety.
3. Selection of alcohol test method: most essential oils will be completely dissolved in alcohol, but if vegetable oil or mineral oil is mixed, there will be a layering phenomenon - that is, vegetable oil or mineral oil floats on the surface of alcohol, while the essential oil part is Dissolved in alcohol. However, there is no test for essential oils whose admixtures are volatile substances.
4. Selected by skin reaction: the purer the quality of the essential oil, the stronger the penetration. When buying essential oils, you can rub the diluted essential oil on the back of your hand or the inside of your wrist for a skin test, and then massage it with your fingertips. Good quality essential oils will be absorbed in an instant, and will not leave shiny oils on the skin. Element.
5. Selection by essential oil chromatogram: Essential oil chromatogram is a scientific method used to analyze the molecular structure of essential oils. The SGS organization checks the quality of essential oils through essential oil chromatograms. The application of essential oil chromatogram is mainly reflected in the identification of essential oil quality. The results obtained by chromatographic analysis are like DNA data of essential oils - through these data, the content of each essential oil component can be clearly obtained, and the quality of essential oils can be judged scientifically and effectively.
