04/09/2023
Let’s Talk about Lemons and Lemon Essential Oil...
Through the course of the last 30 years that I have been working with essential oils, I have had many conversations that are telling to misconceptions regarding their safe use.
One of the more common misconceptions that is often shared with me, is the concept that essential oils are a concentrated form of the entirety of constituents found within the botanical that they are created from.
It’s important to consider that the amount of essential oil within any botanical varies depending on the botanical itself, in addition to where they are grown, as do the resulting constituents. How the botanical is extracted also lends parameters as to what constituents are present in the end product.
Now, back to Lemons...
Lemon fruit essential oil is found in the tiny pores within the rind of the fruit. In comparison, other botanicals have their essential oils woven into their matrix by way of tiny oil sacs in either their leaves, flowers, roots, seeds, bark, etc., and are typically extracted through the process of steam distillation. However citrus fruit is unique in that its essential can be mechanically squeezed out of the little sacs within their rinds.
When we consider a lemon, we can see there are distinctive separate parts to its structure: the center fruit, the pith, and the rind. The essential oil is found in the tiny pores within the rind of the fruit. The constituents of the essential oil found in lemon fruit is quite different than the contents found the entirety of the fruit itself.
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I’ll be offering an essential oil safety class in Crawford, on Saturday, April 15th, 2023 from 2-4:30, for $35. The link to register is in the comment section below.
Let’s have a little talk about Lemons and Lemon essential oil…. Through the course of the last 30 years that I have been working with essential oils, I have had many conversations that …
