Lavender 40/42

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Howdy y'all,

 

When I was in Russia and able to read the list but not respond to it,

somebody asked a question about Lavender 40/42 .. can't remember who

asked but basically they wanted to know the difference between it and

the various Lavandula angustifolia oils.

 

As I mentioned a couple of days ago .. I have been able to retrieve my

lost files .. at least for now .. I'll probably lose them again afore

I return to the USA. ;-)

 

Anyhow .. here is an explanation I sent to the list long ago.

 

 

 

butch owen <butchbsi

Fri, 06 Jun 2003 20:13:56 -0700

Lavender 40/42

 

Hi y'all,

 

Somebody asked:

> Can someone explain me what's ''Lavender 40/42''?????

 

Yep .. can do I reckon. Somewhere along the line somebody (probably

in the perfumery industry) decided that the perfect odor for Lavandula

angustifolia was 40% Linalool and 42% Linalool acetate. And they used

it at that percentage in their perfume blends. Understanding that the

art of perfumery is really a science to the big commercial folks ..

when a good recipe is determined they want to use the same one over

and over each year.

 

BUT .. the Great Spirit didn't necessarily go along with that. Spirit

doesn't allow the same growing conditions year in and year out and

those who understand the nature of agriculture and wild-grown

aromatics know that there will be great variations in the percentages

of chemicals in a given aromatic plant from year to year.

 

The Perfumeries get around this by manipulating the natural oil ..

like putting creme in your coffee .. they add whatever percentage of

Linalool or Linalool acetate necessary to make what they consider to

be a perfect blend .. 40/42.

 

Its not unheard of for them to add naturally extracted Linalool and/or

Linalool acetate .. but its unusual because the synthetic is far

cheaper and they are .. after all .. a business. ;-)

 

Its my opinion that Lavender 40/42 has no place in Aromatherapy .. for

that matter, nor does any other EO that has been manipulated by man.

That is .. beyond the manipulation of distillation .. which unto

itself is not a natural occurance.

 

> Thanks for answering!

 

Welcome you are. :-)

 

And y'all keep smiling, Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

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