m highest concentration of oils to least, the differnt forms of perfume are:
Perfume, also called extract or extrait perfume, can include 15-40% essential oils. This is the purest form of scented product and is the most expensive as a result. Eau de parfum contains about 7-15% essential oils. This is the most popular and common form of perfume. It provides a long-lasting fragrance and generally doesn't cost as much as extract perfume. Eau de toilette has around 1-6% essential oils. This makes for a light scent that doesn't linger as long as the more intense versions. It was originally intended to be a refreshing body splash to help people wake up in the morning. Eau de cologne is sometimes used interchangeably with the term eau de toilette. However, the concoction began as the name of a light, fresh fragrance mixed with citrus oils and was made popular by Napoleon. Some perfumers today have a version of this called eau fraiche.
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Aromatherapy & Essential Oils The Aromatic Plant Project is an educational organization and assists people in finding the correct essential oil and hydrosol distillers and distillation equipment for their needs. They are a non-profit educational organization here to support American Agriculture and its natural products. www.aromaticplantproject.com AromaWeb offers over 250 pages of aromatherapy and essential oil articles, essential oil profiles, recipes, as well as important safety information. A very important web site to visit to learn more about the safe use of essential oils! www.aromaweb.com The Aromatherapy Global Online Research Archives [AGORA] is a unique non-commercial, website, contributed to by about eighty people world-wide. Their mission is to promote the serious, intelligent and SAFE use of essential oils for healing the body, mind and spirit. Some of the links don't appear to be working but I suspect that is a temporary problem. http://nature-helps.com/agora/agora.html NAHA National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy Read a wonderful article about aromatherapy in this article which originally appeared in Vegetarian Times [PDF, reprinted with permission]: Scent of a Woman: Aromatherapy comes of age by Barbara Tunick Toxicity Myths ~ The Actual Risks of Essential Oil Use By Ron Guba, hosted by The National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA), an educational, nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing public awareness of the benefits of true aromatherapy. www.naha.org/articles/toxicity_myths.htm
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God was the first aroma therapist creating the aromatic molecules of plants to not only reverse illness, but to preserve our health and prevent future sickness from manifesting
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The molecular structures of essential oils are small enough to penetrate human skin, enter through the lung alveolar cells, pass through the blood brain barrier, pass through cell walls, even act as chemical messengers to communicate with cellular intelligence at the level of DNA.
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The medicinal properties found in these molecules contain enough healing properties to cover every cell in our bodies. One drop of essential oil contains 40 to the 19th power. That’s 40 with nineteen zeroes in one drop of oil.
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SUSTAINABLE SOURCING The integrity of our ingredients is vital to us, and we actively source every essential oil and plant extract that goes into our products. Our raw materials are native to some of the most wild and remote places in the world. We work with the farmers who produce them to ensure our ingredients are grown to the highest degrees of purity, quality and ethical standards. We support fair trade, organic and traditional agriculture and believe plants grown without chemicals have more benefits and fewer side effects for the skin and body. We continue to nurture our passion for essential oils, looking for new sources and new ingredients to use in our products. As with everything we do, we always use our experience to make sure the ingredients we select will bring real benefits to people’s wellbeing.
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But a growing body of research indicates that smell strongly affects how we think and act, that it can make people buy more, favour certain locations, and even respond more ethically and charitably.
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"They are small behaviours – it's not international peace – but they can have a significant effect on interpersonal relations," says Avery Gilbert, a research psychologist specializing in smell
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Researchers found that people acted more fairly and generously when they were exposed unconsciously to that fragrance.
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