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2. List of essential oils - Wikipedia

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   Unlike other essential oils, lemon oil is usually cold pressed. Used in cosmetics. Lemongrass. Lemongrass is a highly fragrant grass from India. The oil is very useful for insect repellent. Lime; Litsea cubeba oil, lemon-like scent, often used in perfumes and aromatherapy. Linalool; Mandarin; Marjoram; Manuka oil; Melissa oil (Lemon balm ...

3. Young Living - Wikipedia

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   Then, he became interested in essential oils after meeting with a French lavender distiller at a conference in California before traveling to France to learn distillation. He purchased a 160-acre (65 ha) farm in St. Maries, Idaho , with his wife in the early 1990s, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Young Living was founded in 1993 in Riverton, Utah , with Gary ...

4. Spikenard - Wikipedia

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   Spikenard, also called nard, nardin, and muskroot, is a class of aromatic amber-colored essential oil derived from Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant in the honeysuckle family which grows in the Himalayas of Nepal, China, and India.

5. Essential oil - Wikipedia

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   An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile (easily evaporated at normal temperatures) chemical compounds from plants.Essential oils are also known as volatile oils, ethereal oils, aetheroleum, or simply as the oil of the plant from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove.

6. Aromatherapy - Wikipedia

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   Oils and the belief that they had healing properties, along with other beliefs of the time, are described by Dioscorides in his De Materia Medica, written in the 1st century A.D. [7] Distilled cedarwood oil was used by the ancient Egyptians, and the process of distilling essential oils like rose essence was refined by the 11th century Persian ...

7. Rose oil - Wikipedia

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   To mitigate the cost, most dealers cut rose oil with Citronellol, Geraniol, Geranium or Palmarosa (Cymbopogon martinii) essential oils, both of which are rich in Geraniol, the main constituent of rose oil. Some of these "rose oils" are up to 90% geranium or palmarosa to 10% rose. This is referred to as extending the rose fragrance. This may be ...