Distillation Methods ** And Therapeutic Values ** III

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Butch Owen <butchbsi

Wed, 12 Nov 2003 01:13:27 -0800

Distillation Methods ** And Therapeutic

Values ** III

 

 

Hi Michael .. other good folks ..

 

I checked out Imani Natural Products on Google .. sure as hell they

are advertising Medicinal Quality Essential Oils .. not only is this

very dangerous .. as Brian Skiness might find out some day .. but I

don't think he owns a still or the land to produce these so-called

medicinal oils. Says on the site that the oils are distilled for

medicinal use. Says slow distillation produces oils that contain a

wide range of components (he must mean chemical components) that are

not present in commercial oils.

 

And I see lots of misinformation and marketing hype on the site. But

he might have fine oils.

 

I don't know Brian Skiness .. but I doubt if Brian Skiness is selling

bad oils .. odds are he is not. Odds are most folks aren't .. with

some exceptions. But nobody has a corner on quality when they deal

with folks who deal in quality.

 

Odds are that Brian is repeating what his sources (and I mean dealers,

not distillers) tell him .. and that is not unusual either cause there

more slick ways to market out there than you can imagine and some

folks think they gotta be unique to be competitive. Odds are that

Brian Skiness is not doing this from a bad heart but rather from not

having spent enough time viewing the realities .. I won't say that for

Gary Young and the Young Living organization .. I think their

intentions are FAR from honorable .. they are greedy and dangerous!

 

Nobody has a unique production method to produce a product superior in

chemical profile from those of all the other oils in the world that

are produced through normal distillation using single source

aromatics. Of course, Gary Young claims to have special stills .. and

I think he may be right cause on two occasions he's been fined for

safety violations; the last being when one blew the friggin head off

one of his illegal Mexican workers.

 

Other folks claim to harvest their products with Tender Loving Care ..

which makes me think of 16 year old virgins dancing around in flowing

white veils thanking the plants for their great sacrifice whilst

singing Hari Krishna and such. There are problems with this is if one

considers:

 

1. The amount of aromatic materials needed to produced a kilo of oil.

Often tons (Rose Otto and Vitex) .. and at best, with some aromatics,

we get 15-17 kilos from a metric ton (2,205 pounds) of aromatic materials.

 

2. The fact that farmers don't want amateurs in their fields and for

wild grown plants .. mostly found in Third World and Emerging Market

countries, the government restricts harvest to the local peasants and

they control their areas of responsibility with knives and guns.

 

3. There ain't all that many 16 year old virgins willing to work for

pauper wages. (That was a slick way of avoiding criticism). ;-p

 

Folks can believe as they wish .. but the facts are that unless the

distiller burns the plants .. and that is not likely to happen but one

time even using old equipment cause its a quick way to get fired if

you are an employee or to go broke if you are the owner .. and not

likely to happen at all using modern equipment .. we are going to get

a quality product ALMOST every time. There are some seasonal and

harvest time variables that can be exceptions. Its following the

distillation that weird things can .. and do .. happen to essential oils.

 

I go along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote, in " Conduct of Life,

'The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. "

 

Now .. to clarify one point I made earlier .. which I would really

prefer not to do but I believe I must even though it provides fuel for

further misunderstanding. I asked Martin Watt about so-called

European standards .. I did this because I know that our European

cousins, in their futile efforts to create a harmonious brotherhood

amongst nations that barely stand each other .. the European Union ..

have decided to legislate many unreasonable and ridiculous rules .. to

include (and I am not joking) a standardized EU condom .. have

legislated the following.

 

This is from Martin:

 

> There IS a European standard for 2-3 essential oils for medicinal use.

> Those standards are in the European Pharmacopoeia. However, those

> standards can be met completely from manufactured essential oils!

 

Means .. they are similar to the Emperor's New Clothes. And not too

far off from what I think will happen in the future .. a Standard

Operating Procedure for how far men must stand from urinals and how

many times they will be allowed to shake it off without being arrested

for playing with themselves in public.

 

> All that stuff on slow distillation is French suppliers hogwash and in

> fact can create some nasty chemicals in the resulting " cooked " oil.

> You may quote me. Martin

 

So .. that's Martin's take on it. And even considering that the

French do allow medical doctors to prescribe essential oils .. and

some French sellers of essential oils and French Aromatherapy

Practitioners have taken this a bit further than even the French

gummit intended .. I will stand by my statement that those of us in

the USA and Canada .. and in the UK for that matter .. are walking on

thin ice when we talk about selling medicinal or therapeutic essential

oils.

 

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. ;-p

 

Y'all keep smiling. Butch http://www.AV-AT.com