Orange Oil Differences ** Was: Newbie With Questions

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Howdy Saundra,

 

> My name is Saundra and I live in North/Central Florida.

 

Welcome to the group .. I'm sure you will enjoy it here. :-)

 

> I make and sell lotions, creams, soaps and scrubs. I enjoy working

> with EO's, herbs and natural Oils. I buy organic and wildcraft items

> as often as I can afford, but sometimes it's just not in my budget.

 

Organic and Wild Grown are fine .. the fact that an oil is claimed to

be Certified Organic means little as far as quality goes .. and in

fact, it might not even be Organic .. much less Certified. I and many

others have written much on this over the years.

 

> Can you please tell me what is the difference between Blood Orange

> and Sweet Orange?

 

As for the oil .. Odor and Origin and a slight difference in the

chemical profile. There's a big difference in the taste of the fruit.

 

> Is it better to use one more than the other in lotions,

> soaps and/or scrubs.

 

No. ;-) Its a matter of personal taste .. personal olfactory

appreciation, identification and interpretation.

 

My biggest sellers are Wild, followed by Blood and then Sweet .. and

Sweet is the cheapest of the bunch .. not sure what that tells you.

 

The problem with Citrus is there are too many problems. Botanical

Names get us in the ballpark but there are so many cultivars and

clones grown for commercial purposes that even the Botanical Names are

often unreliable. Still .. they are far more reliable than Common

Names. ;-)

 

Blood Orange (Citrus sinensis)

Sweet Orange (Citrus sinensis)

Wild Orange (Citrus sinensis)

 

Family ......... Citrus

Genus .......... Rutaceae

Species ........ has around 16 species

Sub-species .... many

Varieties ...... many

Cultivars ...... many

 

Check this post out: Orange Oil Differences

Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:31 pm

http://health./message/40358

 

Now lemme ask all the folks on the list .. do you think I could have

found this post from 2006 in the archive if it had not had the title

you see above? That's why I changed the title of this post .. not a

slam on Saundra .. just something I have been stressing since I began

writing on News Groups back in 1995. ;-)

 

> Thanks in advance for any answers.

 

Welcome you are fer'shur.

 

> Sincerely,

> Saundra Williams

 

Y'all have a good one .. and keep smiling. :-)

 

Butch .. http://www.AV-AT.com .. Wholesale/Retail GC Tested EO, Tested

Hydrosols (when they are in stock), Rose Products and other goodies

shipped from our store in Downtown Friendsville, MD. Pop: 597

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>

> > Can you please tell me what is the difference between Blood Orange

> > and Sweet Orange?

>

> As for the oil .. Odor and Origin and a slight difference in the

> chemical profile. There's a big difference in the taste of the fruit.

>

 

Butch,

 

Thanks so much for your helpful information and the link to the old

post.

 

By the way, your Peppermint EO is divine.

 

Saundra