Re: adulterated essential oils where can I get good oil
A proper "true" essential oil:
Proper raw organic parts of the: Plant / Tree. Can be from the leaf, the seed, fruit, etc.-- just about any part of the herb.
Harvested on the proper day and basically that would go for any herbal product or food.
Essential Oils are particularly difficult because it takes allot of effort, land, machinery and facilities to mass produce it. David Christopher 20+ years ago pretty much taught that if you purchased it in North America, odds are it is not real. Many authors since then have concluded the same.
An example in America are the few small family owned essential oil companies that will try 1 or 2 essential oils---such as peppermint or some other oil rich mint. When you locate those tiny companies, the price for an ounce is more than you would ever want to give--because when you look at the commercial prices---you would hate to spend many x more the price.
Even with oil rich mints some suggest it takes 50 # of organic material to obtain 1 ounce. With other herbs it could take much more weight and with some of the rarest, most expensive essential oils it can take a whole field of flowers to obtain the final perfume. Actually the people in the area of Egypt make a really good oil. They claim it is based on old ways and aged the old ways---but there seems to be allot of it, so that is always a warning something may not be correct---but the smell and appearance is very good....but strangely they are forbidden to export it. You can buy and stuff in your suit cases, but you will need help getting it through the airports---if your lucky enough to get it out of the country---your best bet is to pack it up and ship it in a box and not try to carry it through customs.
Even equally "strange", when you do discover countries that make the real deal---they too can not export into North America unless they play the shipping game and call it a different name--a name that works internationally. That alone makes obtaining the real deal a bit of a risky deal.....it is all quite bazaar unless your a commercial company. Commercial companies can probably buy and sale anything.
A few years back------the essential oils had a 190% tariff on them and that was before anyone was talking tariffs. Like most products today===the people that make the most profits are those in the shipping business.
I am 100% sure i would NEVER EVER buy an essential oil from the large Canadian source web sites----not only do they lie, sell trash and when you catch them and tell them---they will not even acknowledge the subject...and that is pretty much the way they will all act---because they do not know what they are selling---they just resell like everyone does in all of North America---because they do not make it and they want cheap, so they can make allot of profits.........the first Canadian company was the most pathetic of them all 20 years ago selling oregano oil for a 50,000% profit. The top 2 most popular essential oil companies in America today are such scam artist and trick women into being salespeople will lie and create lies about various essential oils of which Lemon Balm is their current mega rip off oil. They trick people into saying anything it takes to resell, so everyone can make $$ off their friends---the pyramid sales gimmicks seem to forever exist and make liars out of those wanting to make $$$ off of others.
THE INTERNET has flooded North America literally--------1 oil that 1 company may be selling for $150 a tiny bottle----you can find large companies flooding the markets selling the same oil for $12 an ounce. LITERALLY insuring no one today can trust anything about essential oils---because there are too many thieves in the business that have tricked people into reselling to family and friends. THIS was something suggested by the real people many many years ago---they said it is EASY to understand synthetic made essential oil products----some author makes it popular and once books and websites creates the market-----THEN the french/spain/turkey labs mass produce it by the hundreds if not thousands of gallons and the people that make the real deal---say there is ZERO HERB in those lab created chemical solutions.
These synthetics "smell" and depending on how much the human brain wants to believe what it was told---perhaps they get results from their own brain's will to believe------IN FACT the human brain is the most powerful thing we must all deal with---because what it believes---it will make happen, even if your brain must kill you. Making education the most dangerous weapon all students are forced to deal with in their lifetimes.
A TRUE ESSENTIAL OIL is the herb, put into a huge stainless steel steam extractor using lots of lab people and fancy machinery separating the oils (fats) of the plants/herbs..........these same lab people not only can produce the true essential oils---they are the ones that make medical grade extracts of herbs that they choose the active ingredient and then they have the machines and abilities to concentrate the active ingredient as pure as 99%---which is a deadly medicine always.....YET, still 100% just herb. These same lab people create over 75 different freeze dried fruit juice powders. In their culture they will not use a synthetic drug / medicine or what we know as western medicines....They make foods/medicines from 100% herb. Sadly it takes so much land, so many facilities, so many people to produce such a thing---only the communist can do it or what I would call slave labor. BUT, they do it for their own medicines and that is WHY they still to this day---grow and make all the old medical herbs written about 100+ years ago or even 6,000+ years ago.......something western medicine absolutely hates and why you see the internet condemning the use of various old medical herbs of past American History.
I was befriended by one of the employees years ago---he actually would have liked to fled his country and come live in America....and eventually higher ups read his e-mails and he was fired. Mostly because in that part of earth---they make ans sale, but do not educate outsiders. They gladly will sale everything---as long as they never have to tell you anything about it. Luckily I learned allot from the first man---he even called by phone to apologize that he could no longer help me understand...
ARE THERE OTHER SOURCES---YES, anyone with steam distilled essential oils......In america, the most noted scam artiste created some books and he printed a large book and my wife gave me a copy---he created the illusion he is making his own steam distilled essential oils in the mid west of America and proudly shows a picture of the old dirty machine and dirty floors and the employee that was dressed like a dirty milk farmer------but even then, if you read the fine print, the couple of essential oils they are producing are very small scale and what you buy commercially from them---comes from Europe... I am assembling a book currently that shows the pictures of what a real true steam distilled herbal company looks like------but like last time, it is easy to assemble a book, but near impossible to get anyone to read it, edit or then print it---so that book has been setting for a long time now. The last person that said she loves to edit and would love to make it a real book ---took a copy and I just asked her today was the book that boring--because i never heard from her again about it and she said---I got busy and I did get to page 7---well, page 7 basically is about the first page, because the beginning is just pictures and starting to make it appear as a book------------------that is the way it always is---no one really wants to read.......and "no", I am not giving the raw book to anyone else to read---in 10 years I have never seen that work even once---because people never do anything they say when it comes to such a thing...and bad enough, they will not even read the book once it is on paper......
In this book I have 22 true steam distilled herbs listed---that is how many I have collected to date. Most of them have to do with parasites---because that is what has always made me Unique----because everyone else avoids the worms. So many of the essential oils i have are not main stream by a long shot...which also would make them near impossible to resale....so I basically buy what I use and make things with. The idea of the book was to explain and then make formulas what I call READY TO USE---because for the most part, people obtain pure essential oils and then have no clue how to use them---then they never want to buy them again.
If you in theory start with 22 pure essential oils---making sprays, oils and salves and as well as pure------you could easily make 200 different products------and naturally no matter how many you made----only what you talk about the most is what will sale and it must be good enough to then resale its self---herbs that can not sale them selves, will always fail.
THE REASON I KNOW essential oils work, is because I have blended them into formulas for 20 years...they really work well. That is why all the authors and governments never want anyone using them internally---but as the markets have now been flooded, more and more internet sources are saying take them internally---because they need more sales.
The reason I really do not resale most essential oils is the fact that most people should not have pure essential oils, unless they are careful to keep them away from children and the eyes, etc.........but once diluted properly into formulas people, children, babies do extremely well.
MOST EVERYONE I have asked that buys the small bottles of essential oils----do it once and then never want them again, due to the fact they are confused as to what they can do---they are scared.
I personally will never buy an essential oils from an American or Canadian source ever again---they almost always are selling fake products to some degree and really have no idea what they are selling.
WEIRD ENOUGH
TRUE essential oils are not that expensive----the largest expense is the shipping. NO, they are ever going to sale less than gallons, so people that are not reselling would never seek such product. The common cost of shipping for 2 gallons if $500.00
ONCE I do get the boom done and printed, I will have a standard price for all 22 that I have...I wanted to get that done this spring, but it reached the point of making the book FINAL and that is where it always stops---because if I edit a book, I will end up rewriting it each time.
So best answer is this---what essential oil are you looking for and how much you want?
MH