Selecting Truly Organic Essential Oil
There are a host of different companies that offer ‘organic’ essential oils in their products.There may be chances of some companies claiming to be organic on the label but are not actually certified organic essential oils as per the USDA. There are certain standards that the USDA requires of companies that want to claim their product as organic. There are other organizations as well that often have even stricter standards that the USDA for organic products, such as the IFOAM or the CCOF International that will also offer a certification for companies that conform to their requirements.
Certified Organic Essential Oil
When a company makes organic essential oils that are certified to be truly organic, the companies have ensured that the oils are obtained from plants that have not been treated by any chemical products. This means that chemical pesticides or other products that are commonly used in traditional farming cannot be used on the plants that are used in organic essential oils.Chemicals treatment should not be done on the soil in which the plants are grown. This meant that the soil cannot have chemical fertilizers or other products used on it, and cannot have had these products used on it for a certain number of years before the organic plants are grown in it, so that there is not any residue.
Instead of using these chemical products, the organic essential oil companies grow their plants with the use of natural pesticides and natural fertilizers to produce rich crops. In order to create organic essential oils by these means, the process is more expensive, taking more time and energy to use these natural methods of production. This means that the organic essential oils will be more expensive than traditionally grown essential oils, even those that are stated to be organic but are not certified to be so.
The reason that it is important to buy organic essential oils is that the chemicals that are used in the soil and on the plants can be absorbed into them and thus passed on to the individuals that eat or use the products made from these plants. The pesticides that are sprayed on the fruit trees from which many of the essential oils are made from are absorbed through the rind of the fruit and contaminate the fruit itself. The organic essential oils are free from these contaminants since these companies refuse to use the harmful chemicals.
