Guest guest Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Hi martin . . . The only molecular extraction I've seen is used to extract dna from plant material for lab analysis. Or, to extract nucleus from frozen plant material and then extract the protein. ??? Are you saying there is a new extraction (molecular extraction) process to obtain a range of plant constituents that would produce plant extract similar to that obtained by critical carbon dioxide extraction? Please elaborate. This sounds exciting and intriguing. I've been without computer for about 5 days due to massive hard drive crash .. . . Baby had to go to the computer specialist for a major retrieval - fortunately nothing was lost and it's all happily residing on a new hard drive. Lesson learned, however, we are installing one of those big honkin' hard drives on one of the networked computers to serve as a backup for everyone. Fortunately, we were saved the agony of rebuilding major files of data. (wiping sweat from brow!) Be well, Marcia Elston Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence, est. 1988 http://www.wingedseed.com Online 3/95 http://www.aromaconnection.org Group Blog 2/07 " Only after the last tree has been cut; only after the last river has been poisoned; only after the last fish has been caught; only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. " Cree Prophecy ________________________________ ATFE2 [ATFE2 ] On Behalf Of Martin Watt Friday, May 09, 2008 2:35 AM ATFE2 [ATFE2] Re: Are Sweet Peas Aromatherapy? >Do you mean they have all the extraction chemicals removed Yes. >Or is there a (commercially viable) method of production not >involving chemicals? CO2 and Molecular extraction. >Also, how do you see the flower-as-aromatherapy? Flowers are REAL aromatherapy. ATFE2 <ATFE2%40> , Liz <liztams wrote: > > Hi Martin > > 2008/5/8 Martin Watt <aromamedical: > > Liz said: > > > >>To me aromatherapy is natural scents only. But then - what about > >>absolutes? > > > Absolutes are far more " natural " than any essential oils as long as > > they have been properly produced. > > I personally love absolutes (well, a lot of them, not all) and I'm > intrigued by *properly produced*. > Do you mean they have all the extraction chemicals removed completely? > Or is there a (commercially viable) method of production not involving > chemicals? > Also, how do you see the flower-as-aromatherapy? Can a natural scented > flowers be considered as AT in your opinion? or has AT to come out of > a bottle to be *true AT*? > (lot of questions there - sorry!) > LLx > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2008 Report Share Posted May 13, 2008 Molecular Extraction has been used for some years to extract all kinds of goodies from crude plant extracts. One of the experts in this is Arthur Phillips of Elixarome (link on my site). Using that method they can extract both polar and non polar molecules depending on if it is for a flavor customer or a fragrance customer. I had some of their molecular extracted rose oil and it was fine, but a bit too 'clean' if you know what I mean. However it was for specific uses not aromatherapy. Martin ATFE2 , " Marcia Elston " <Marcia wrote: > > Hi martin . . . > > The only molecular extraction I've seen is used to extract dna from plant > material for lab analysis. Or, to extract nucleus from frozen plant > material and then extract the protein. ??? Are you saying there is a new > extraction (molecular extraction) process to obtain a range of plant > constituents that would produce plant extract similar to that obtained by > critical carbon dioxide extraction? Please elaborate. This sounds exciting > and intriguing. > > I've been without computer for about 5 days due to massive hard drive crash > . . . Baby had to go to the computer specialist for a major retrieval - > fortunately nothing was lost and it's all happily residing on a new hard > drive. Lesson learned, however, we are installing one of those big honkin' > hard drives on one of the networked computers to serve as a backup for > everyone. Fortunately, we were saved the agony of rebuilding major files of > data. (wiping sweat from brow!) > > Be well, > Marcia Elston > Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence, est. 1988 > http://www.wingedseed.com Online 3/95 > http://www.aromaconnection.org Group Blog 2/07 > " Only after the last tree has been cut; only after the last river has been > poisoned; only after the > last fish has been caught; only then will you find that money cannot be > eaten. " Cree Prophecy > > > > ________________________________ > > ATFE2 [ATFE2 ] On Behalf > Of Martin Watt > Friday, May 09, 2008 2:35 AM > ATFE2 > [ATFE2] Re: Are Sweet Peas Aromatherapy? > > > > >Do you mean they have all the extraction chemicals removed > Yes. > > >Or is there a (commercially viable) method of production not > >involving chemicals? > CO2 and Molecular extraction. > > >Also, how do you see the flower-as-aromatherapy? > Flowers are REAL aromatherapy. > > ATFE2 <ATFE2%40> , Liz > <liztams@> wrote: > > > > Hi Martin > > > > 2008/5/8 Martin Watt <aromamedical@>: > > > Liz said: > > > > > >>To me aromatherapy is natural scents only. But then - what about > > >>absolutes? > > > > > Absolutes are far more " natural " than any essential oils as long > as > > > they have been properly produced. > > > > I personally love absolutes (well, a lot of them, not all) and I'm > > intrigued by *properly produced*. > > Do you mean they have all the extraction chemicals removed > completely? > > Or is there a (commercially viable) method of production not > involving > > chemicals? > > Also, how do you see the flower-as-aromatherapy? Can a natural > scented > > flowers be considered as AT in your opinion? or has AT to come out > of > > a bottle to be *true AT*? > > (lot of questions there - sorry!) > > LLx > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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