Essential Oils
Essential oils are considered volatile oil having the characteristic flavour or odor of the plant where it is acquired that is usually used to make perfumes and flavourings. Essentials oils have been known and traded even in early times. Isoprenoids is one of the components of most essential oils. Winter green and orange oil have one predominant component while most essential oils have dozen or hundreds. It is the trace components that impart oil’s characteristics odour which synthetic or blended oils can barely duplicate.
Essential oils usually have three primary commercial uses: as odorants, flavours and as pharmaceuticals. Odorants are used in soaps, detergents, perfumes and other products. Flavours are added in baked goods, soft drinks, candies and many other kind of foods while as pharmaceuticals, it used in dental products and in most medicines.
Essentials oils have healing properties that have been used for medicinal purposes. Different scents have different effect on man. Phytoncides, essential oils and other organically active substances that is present in plant have great influence on the central nervous system. The different effects of these aromas on us: can reduce inflammation and facilitate the purification process of the body, it can quiet and calm you down, eliminate spasms, alleviate pains, tone up and balance.
One of the characteristic of essential oils is that it works in a synergistic manner, meaning one of the substances strengthens the effect of the other oil. It can regulate metabolic processes in plants thus protecting them from diseases and at the same time destroy germs so you can feel the healing effect of the oils on your body.