Sensitization - What Is It?

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Sensitization - What Is It?

Thu Apr 27, 2006

 

Hey y'all,

 

The below post has been sent to this list many, many times over the

years .. but since this is the fastest growing list around and there

are many new folks on board .. here it is again.

 

Afore you read this .. lemme ask a logical question. Why would folks

who sell EO .. folks like me and Marge and Chris and Marcia and dozens

of other folks .. folks who can gain financially from your increased

use of EO .. tell you to NOT use EO without proper, safe dilution?

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to come up with the answer. We see

this issue as being serious enough to warn folks.

 

Another question. Why do outfits like Young Living push the neat use

of EO?

 

Finally .. lemme tell y'all that I and many other folks who have been

in the business a long time are sorta fed up with reading the

thousands of so-called formulas written in many of the " novels " on

AT .. and we see these formulas passed along on lists as being tried

and true when in fact, they are usually NOT .. most of them are

hypothetical .. and/or extrapolations of the known effects of certain

chemicals in an EO .. or even worse .. the assigning of the

properties of whole plants to the EO that is extracted from the whole

plant.

 

 

 

butch owen

Thu, 05 Jun 2003 07:22:37 -0700

Sensitization

 

 

Hi y'all,

 

There are might be some folks wondering about sensitization. So please

pay close attention cause this can be rough stuff!

 

IF we talk about initial sensitizing we're almost always talking about

dermal contact with essential oils or some other chemical .. not the

ingestion or inhalation. Some natural products are known to be potent

sensitizers .. some are occasional sensitizers and some are known as

non sensitizing. But even non sensitizing EO can cause some folks to

become sensitized .. its a matter of luck .. bad luck!

 

I have had blond hair (not much, but its blond) all my life .. and now

there's no gray in it .. blondes rarely have gray hair. However, my

mustache and beard (I have no beard now) have been salt and pepper

since I was in my mid-20s .. and for the last few years the salt

increased as the pepper became less noticeable. I started maybe three

years ago using Just For Men mustache, sideburn and beard dressing ..

it was real easy .. just brush it in and in five minutes the pepper

is back.

 

Well .. back in September 2002 I was using it during my weekly vain

attempt to look younger .. and all of a sudden my face broke out like

bees had attacked me .. burned the crap out of me too. I figured it

had already passed the expiration date cause I had purchased it

during my last trip to the USA .. so I stopped using it as I was

about to make another trip .. which I did two weeks later.

 

I bought some new Just for Men .. and when I used it, the same thing

went down. I had become SENSITIZED to that product. Then, it was a

matter of learning what exactly I had become sensitized to .. I wrote

a letter to the manufacturers and they did not reply. They were are

NOT going to tell me what was in that product .. which is another

reason I'm not in favor of Fragrance Oils .. manufacturers of

Fragrance Oils have successfully lobbied the FDA to have their

ingredients classified as " trade secrets. "

 

Sensitization is not just spice oils, though they're in the top

category as potential sensitizers .. its also oils made from leaves,

bark, seeds, roots, blossoms, gum, etc. And sensitization is

impossible to avoid entirely .. like traffic accidents .. but we can

greatly reduce the potential by avoiding oils we know are known

sensitizers and not using the others (the safe ones) undiluted. Its a

case of dealing with the immune system and though its hard to fool

Mama Nature, its not impossible to deceive the immune system.

 

What happens in sensitization is the immune system registers a foreign

invader .. it alerts all its soldiers that the body's defense system

has been breached. But it RARELY reacts when this happens .. it

registers the profile of the invader and prepares for defensive

action the next time that invader strikes .. which might be days or

weeks or months or even years later. But attack it will .. at some

point in time .. and attacks will continue forever if the immune

system's security officer detects another invasion by that foreign

enemy.

 

Because its not the oil itself that's causing the reaction .. but

rather one or maybe a combination of the chemical components of that

oil, this creates problems that continue even if we don't use that

oil again.

 

The problems can arise anytime we come into contact with ANY substance

containing that chemical or combination of chemicals that has been

duly registered as an enemy agent by our immune system .. and that

time, it doesn't have to be via dermal application only .. it can

occur when we eat foods that contain the enemy agents. This is likely

to occur for sure because the aromatherapy industry is a small user

of essential oils; its the cosmetics, perfumery and FOOD industry

that uses the lion's share.

 

So how do we fool the immune system? We don't attack with brigades of

3,000 troops .. we slip squads of ten or so troops into the area of

operations because it is less likely to trigger the panic and alarm

that the immune system goes into when it registers foreign enemy

invaders.

 

How do we do this? We dilute the oil. And try to avoid using any

essential oil .. even well diluted .. over a wide area of skin. You

gonna say .. what about massage? Well .. there are some risks in life

and that is one of them .. but its more potentially dangerous to the

one giving the massage than to the recipient because of the other

danger .. frequency of use. That requires little discussion but I'll

say that the more often we drive to the corner market, the more

likely we are to have a traffic accident.

 

Proper dilution of essential oils is critical .. and contrary to the

old rumors in this industry about neat use of Lavender and Tea Tree

being safe .. they too must be diluted. There are MANY people around

who have become sensitized to Lavender and Tea Tree .. and

sensitization is (with some rare exceptions) for life .. it can take

us to the emergency room.

 

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

 

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