Yields from Raw Materials

The average yield of essential oil from raw material is 1.4 per cent, which means that about 70 kg of plant material is required to produce 1 kg of essential oil. 160 kg of lavender blossoms are required to produce 1 kg of essential oil. As much as 4000 kg of rose petals are needed to produce 1 kg of rose oil. That means a yield of only 0.025 per cent, which explains why rose oil is considered so precious.

Essential oils are fragrant and highly volatile thus they evaporate readily. They are not greasy—quite different from fatty oils—and have a consistency much more like water than oil.

Use Only the Highest Quality

It is very important to use only the highest quality, 100% natural and completely pure essential oils from wild or organically grown plants.

Essential oils should be stored in dark-coloured bottles, in a cool place away from direct sunlight, to ensure that their high quality and strength is maintained.

Essential Oils are Very Powerful Substances

Essential oils are very powerful substances. They are able to influence our physical, mental and emotional well-being in a very profound way. They can quickly uplift us, cheer us up; calm and relax us; enliven, motivate and inspire us; harmonize and balance our emotions; dispel tensions, anxieties, headaches, cramps, and tiredness; improve appetite, digestion, sleep, concentration, memory, mental clarity, willpower, creativity, and self-confidence; promote bliss and feelings of euphoria, and more.

The Nature of the Sense of Smell

The sense of smell is the oldest of our senses (hearing and seeing are younger senses). Smelling takes place through approximately ten million olfactory nerve cells of the mucous membrane at the root of our nose. This mucous membrane is the only place in the body where the central nervous system is open and in direct contact with the outer world. Its cells are brain cells. Their eighty million fine hair cells gather an unimaginably large amount of information with each breath that we take.

The Limbic System

We take in the finest information from our environment with each breath. Fragrance molecules cause chemical reactions on the fine hair cells of the olfactory receptors, which are transmitted as electrical stimuli directly to the limbic system—the oldest part of our brain—without being judged by the cortex.

The limbic system is the seat of emotions, memory, creativity, motivation, and regulation of the autonomic nervous system, which governs breathing, heartbeat, and digestion.

Direct Influence

All of the autonomic functions are directly influenced by scent without the interference of our conscious mind. That means that before we consciously perceive a fragrance, it has already affected us on the subconscious level—it has instantly influenced our emotions, heart rate, breath rate, and more.

Fragrance stimulates the release of neuro-transmitters, such as encephalines, endorphines, and serotonin, which invoke feelings of happiness, upliftment, well-being and relaxation.

Happiness for Good Health

Happiness and bliss are essential for our health. Negative thoughts and unhappiness create ill health. Fragrances of essential oils are an ideal way to influence our emotions, improve our emotional well-being, maintain relaxation, peace of mind, and promote happiness.

The fact that scents and memories are stored together in the limbic system, explains why fragrances can evoke memories. Probably everyone has experienced that a particular fragrance can bring back memories from childhood or other events from the past associated with the fragrance. More