EO Chemistry

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Eric,

 

To keep it extremely simple, esthers, eithers, terpenes, etc, are

descriptions of the atomic structures of particular molecular patterns of

certain organic compounds. These individual compounds come together to make

more complex compounds such as EO's. :-)

 

Seriously, these terms describe different individual compounds that

make up EO's. Each of these simple compounds has particular medicinal

properties, i.e., phenols stimulate blood flow, warm the skin, and

generally are mentally stimulating when inhaled. They can be irritating to

the skin. The EO's that have these characteristics are generally higher in

phenols.

 

Instead of going into it in detail here(someone else may but I won't) I

suggest getting " Aromatherapy for Dummies " , it has a pretty simple

explanation of how this works.

 

Frank

 

There's all this esters, ethers, terpenes, pheonols. What does all this

mean? >

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