Concentration of Essential Oils

 

CONCENTRATION OF PLANT MATTER IN POPULAR ESSENTIAL OILS:

Highly concentrated when extracted from natural form

• 1 drop of peppermint = 28 cups of peppermint tea
• Essential oils are 50 to 70 times more powerful than herbs
• 45 Lemons in one 15 mL bottle
• 30 lbs of Lavender flowers in one 15 mL bottle
• 66 lbs of Melissa plant in one bottle
• 100 Bergamot oranges to make 3 bottles. (not sure on the specifics) (from YouTube video https://youtu.be/Oym5Xm5b00E)
• 1 Douglas Fir Tree in 1 15mL bottle of Douglas Fir essential oil
• Approximately 1,160,000 freshly picked rose petals to produce one once (30ml) of Rose oil.  It takes as much as 12,000 rose blossoms to distill 5 ml of therapeutic- grade essential rose oil.

AFFORDABILITY

• Cents to the drop
• 1 Drop of Lemon is about 4 cents

Because essential oils are so concentrated, they suddenly become more affordable than household synthetic remedies.

MOLECULAR CONCENTRATION

Essential oils are also concentrated on a molecular level.  Being highly concentrated also means that they are effective.  An essential oil molecule can be up to 1000 times smaller than a molecule of protein.

Because essential oil compounds are molecularly small, one drop can easily enter and spread throughout the body.

There are enough essential oil compounds in a single drop of essential oil to cover every cell in the human body with approximately 1.2 million essential oil compounds. It boggles the mind.

THERAPEUTIC BENEFIT

A drop on the bottom of your foot can be detected in  your blood stream in less than 30 seconds.  Because essential oils have a very tiny molecular weight and size, they are easily absorbed through the skin.

• They take seconds to enter the body.
• They can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 12 hours to be fully absorbed into all the cells of the body.
• They take about 3 to 6 hours to be expelled or metabolized in a normal healthy body, and up to 12 to 14 hours for an unhealthy or obese body.