Essential oils are made from natural, pesticide-free ingredients in order to distill the purest product for maximum health benefits.
Essential Oils are generally more concentrated than synthetic oils.
Essential Oils contain the majority of the ingredients found in nature (excluding things like fiber) whereas synthetic oils frequently contain oils not associated with the plant it self in addition to the limited number of synthetic “active” ingredients in that synthetic oil.
Essential Oils are like the underlying plants themselves, namely, all of the ingredients are hardly ever studied independently - so one will likely never find all of the real health benefits of Rosemary, for instance, but you can read about one active ingredient in rosemary - rosmanol, however, the remaining 400-500 phytochemicals and constituents including rosmarinic acid, carnosic acid, carnosol, rosmanol, camphor, camphene among others may not have the same “scientific” attention individually let alone together as found in Rosemary and Rosemary Essential Oil.
It takes A LOT of plant material to make essential oils, examples include: 5 to 6 pounds of peppermint plant to produce 1 ounce of peppermint essential oil, 50 to 100 pounds of thyme plant to produce 1 pound of thyme essential oil, and essential oil, 20 to 30 pounds of rosemary to produce 1 pound of rosemary essential oil.
Essential oils are pure plant extracts made from a variety of plant materials, including flowers, leaves, stems, roots, resin and other parts of the plants. Essential oils are distilled into concentrated oils which do not contain fatty acids like most oils but they do contain rather volatile organic compounds which are generally accepted and believed to be potent and therapeutic.
