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HUGE Peace & Calming fan here, too! I have a great testimony for that one!
I have both the Home Diffuser and the Therapro from Young Living. The Therapro is by far my favorite, but as it does use more oil, I usually save it for when we are really fighting something. For instance, if I have a childen fighting congestion and/or cough, I will set the Therapro right by their bed at night with R.C. attached. I set it on the lowest setting and usually on for 20/off for 20. Often when I do this I will turn it off before going to bed, as it has already helped the child breathe better and settle down to sleep for the night.
In the winter, I try to run my Home Diffuser a bit each day, usually with Thieves. I may change up depending upon what we are dealing with or what I feel like smelling at the time. 🙂
Since the cost of EO’s seems to vary widely, I’ve been looking around on the web. As MissusLeata said, I cannot afford to purchase them from some of the companies like doTerra or Young Living. Some here have mentioned “therapeutic grade” oils, and I found an article on the site she mentioned, Beeyoutiful, where the question of certification is addressed. Here is an excerpt from that article, and I wondered if some of you might comment on it.
“If I ask somebody if a product is “organic”, what I mean is “certified organic”. See there is a standard set by a committee of farmers and industry. They meet and vote on changes to the standards every year. Then several agencies are in place that review practices and procedures, do testing, and certify a farm, and its produce as “organic”. You might have something that is not certified, but a farmer will say it was grown “organically” or according to organic specifications.
There is no such system for essential oils. There is no standards committee. There are no independent certifying agencies. You will see some companies have actually trademarked their terms, “therapeutic grade” or “medicinal grade”. This is marketing on their part, a way of differentiating themselves from the competition and making people feel like the oils they are getting are of the highest quality while others meet lower standards. But there are no standards. There are no grades for essential oils. Certainly not all oils are of the same quality, and while there are a couple of things you can do at home to spot really low quality or highly diluted oils, there really is no way to find out the quality of most oils short of sending samples for testing. It is not like beef where you have grade A, certified by the USDA.”
I’m just beginning to look into EO’s, so all of this is interesting to me. Beeyoutiful has in the description of their EO’s the term “GC/IR verified.” I have contacted them to ask for an explanation of this, as the information I found about gas chromatography (the GC part) made my head hurt. Now I wish I had some peppermint oil handy to rub on my temples….
Here is a company that lists the analysis information right with the item.
You know, all of this research into God’s wonderful blessing of natural, essential oils prompted this thought: God creates, man complicates. Ya think??!
Thanks, HiddenJewel. So it seems that some companies have an analysis of the ingredient(s) done, and some of them share that info with the public, others don’t. Probably that’s why some companies offer their products for less. I also read on the Beeyoutiful site that they put “Aromatherapy use only” on their labels because if they stated that they could be used internally, they would have to comply with all sorts of labelling regulations (warnings) and pay for insurance to cover their risks.
It must be hard to be in the business of offering natural products and solutions these days. As I said before, God creates, man complicates.
I have been using essential oils for different things but I do not have a diffuser. would there be a huge difference between using a diffuser and a humidifier? I know there’s a pretty big difference price wise!
How is the most cost effeciant way to get an oil into your home, like you would a plug in type deal where it makes the whole house smell good? I don’t have hundereds or even ‘a’ hundred right now to buy something big?
Unless you are using the ventilation system, you probably aren’t going to get oil diffused through the whole house. Diffusing usually will cover one room. I don’t diffuse for making the house smell good but to get the essential oils into the air so it can kill the pathogens floating around.
I could see possibly rotating the diffuser through the common areas of the house during the day (one day in the living room, the next day in the kitchen, etc.) and maybe using it in a bedroom where someone is sick at night. And when no one is sick, just rotate it through the various bedrooms….
One way to tell if an EO company may not be legit is if all the oils are close to the same price. Essentials oils vary greatly in price ranging from $4 to $1000 (USD) per ounce. Citrus oils are generally inexpensive whereas flower oils such as rose, chamomile, or jasmine are expensive. (8 million jasmine blossoms must be handpicked at a specific time to produce 2.2 pounds of oil. It takes 60,000 rose blossoms to produce one ounce of essential oil.) So a $10 bottle of jasmine is going to be adulterated.
Great point, Hidden Jewel. It may also be completely synthetic even though it says pure essential oil… knowing how the oils are made/distilled can help you understand their safety and the serious reasons for cost!
Ok but my kitchen & living room upstairs are a pretty large area. They are one long rectangle you could say. So if I put one of these on my kitchen counter island would that do enough with such a large space. Unlike a bedroom where it’s 12×14 but all enclosed?
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