Essential oils primer. (Healthy Lifestyles).(Brief Article)

Publication: Vegetarian Times

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What makes essential oils different from the synthetic perfumes sold in most mass-market retail outlets? Synthetic perfume, or fragrance oils, use isolates of a single plant molecule. True essential oils, on the other hand, are a complex mix of the plant's hormones, nutrients and biochemicals.

And the process by which essential...

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