Expected to be available early 2026, with the brand Cretan-Garden:
- Art. 18 * Bay Laurel 10ml
- Art. 19 * Lavender 10ml
- Art. 20 * Oregano 10ml
- Art. 21 * Rosemary 10ml
- Art. 22 * Sage 10ml
- Art. 23 * Patchouli 10ml
- Art. 24 * Ylang-Ylang 10ml
Essential oils, a short history
The use of aromatic plants and trees goes far back in history, to the time of the Egyptians and Babylonians, 3000 – 4000 before Christ. It is told however, that the oldest knowledge of essential oils.is to be found in China.
The Egyptians used essential oils from plants and resins to mummify the dead, because of their cleansing and anti-sceptic properties. Cleopatra used essential oils to enhance her attraction. Also, in the bible, essential oils are mentioned, like myrrh, incense, cloves, sandalwood, rose, and cedar.
Those who worked as perfumers during the Black Death plague epidemic were not contaminated by the plague: they inhaled the aerosols which were mixed with the anti-sceptic aerosols from the plants while working with them, and also the anti-sceptic properties of the plants entered the body via the skin.[Additional: The Forgotten Pollution: Dr. Schnabel’s Hepa Filter]
Essential oils, where they are derived from
Essential Oils are the highly concentrated, volatile, aromatic essences of plants. Essential oils are derived from the leaves, flowers, wood, seeds, roots, bark and resins of trees and plants.. Essential oils are composed of diverse aromatic volatile liquids, which are distracted from the plant parts via steam distillation. To create a one-litre essential oil one needs many kilos of aromatic plants. To create one litre of for instance, rosemary oil, one needs 50 kilos of rosemary leaves, and about 5000 kilos for a rose and jasmine oil.
Essential oils and the chakras
There is hardly any information about essential oils in the combination with the term “chakras“. There seem to be essential oils, however, that could be helpful in the healing of blocked or disbalanced chakras. I have just one but excellent advice: the smell you are searching for at that moment, and absolutely your favourite, fits all chakras. If you want to read more about it then this article could be helpful.
Aroma therapy
The use of essential oils is rather safe when using these in an aroma lamp diffuser, or in massage oils and body-oils, if one is following up the advice about the total of drops on a certain amount of water for a bath, footbath, or aroma lamp. Also, when using essential oils in a carrier oil, like olive oil, to create a body oil or a massage oil, or to dilute it to just a small spot on the skin, one must be well-informed about the total of drops of essential oil on how much carrier oil. Internal use of essential oils is dangerous, unless one follows the advice of a well-trained and certified aroma therapist.
Quality criteria
There are many different brands on the market with several different essential oils, and all smell different from another brand with the same oil name, and do not all smell so nice. It can be related to your own nose, of course, and preferences, but it can happen that it is not only you who dislikes a certain smell: it can also depend on the brand, the country, the climate, the height of the area, the hours of sunshine, the soil, the pH of the soil, even the entire community of plants and trees, animals, the so-called biotope where the plants grow where the essential oil is extracted from, are creating the chemotype, the ct, and the scent. It is impossible to smell an essential oil when one orders it from the web. It is therefore wise, if possible, to buy an essential oil in a good health shop.
Steam distillation is a delicate process. It needs professional experience and constant control. The essential oil must be a hundred percent natural and may not be denaturised by half-synthetic molecules and not be mixed with essential oils with the same scent, but less expensive and of a lesser or even inferior quality.
More information
Books
- Avicenna, born in 980 C.E., near Bukhara, Iran which is now in Uzbekistan, died in1037 C.E., Hamadan, Iran, was a medical doctor, who wrote more than hundred scientific papers about the knowledge about essential oils, and lectured the art of distilling at the by him founded universities in Spain. Book: Avicenna’s Medicine: A New Translation of the 11th-Century Canon with Practical Applications for Integrative Health Care
- René-Maurice Gattefossé, father of modern aroma-therapy. Book: Gattefossé’s Aromatherapy (1918)
- Dr. Jean Valnet – Book: The practice if aroma therapy. Article: We remember Jean Valnet (1964)
- P. Franchomme & D. Penoël – Book: L’aroma therapie exactement. In the year 1975 P. Franchommé discovered that the chemical compound of essential oils changes according to the place where the plant grows or is cultivated. This is noted with chemotype or ct. One needs to take this in consideration for optimal medical results.
Article
- What Are Essential Oils, and Do They Work? – Healthline
Scientific Research
- An Overview of the Biological Effects of Some Mediterranean Essential Oils on Human Health – PubMed
- Essential oils and Health – PubMed
- Essential Oils, Part I: Introduction – PubMed
- Oregano essential oil as an antimicrobial additive to detergent for hand washing and food contact surface cleaning – ResearchGate
- Antiviral efficacy and mechanisms of action of oregano essential oil and its primary component carvacrol against murine norovirus – PubMed
- Antibacterial activity of oregano (Origanum vulgare Linn.) against gram positive bacteria – PubMed
- Essential Oils of Oregano: Biological Activity beyond Their Antimicrobial Properties – PubMed
- Carvacrol, a Plant Metabolite Targeting Viral Protease (Mpro) and ACE2 in Host Cells Can Be a Possible Candidate for COVID-19 – Frontiers in Plant Science [[oregano’s principle component is carvacrol, admin]]
- Oregano Oil and Its Principal Component, Carvacrol, Inhibit HIV-1 Fusion into Target Cells – PubMed
- Why aromatherapy is showing up in hospital surgical units – Mayo Clinic
