Turkish Rose Products - Update II ** Afterthoughts

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Hi y'all,

 

I meant to mention this in the previous post .. but I'm still a bit

disturbed by what has gone down and was thinking of other things.

 

As many of you know, the most commonly adulterated essential oils in the

past were Melissa and Neroli. Too many folks have been caught playing

games with those two products. It got so bad that many folks feared

buying them .. though there was an abundant supply of the real thing ..

it was just not something we could bargain for.

 

This increase in price of Rose products .. seems to me it will give even

more incentive to those who play games to play with the products. This

is not something we need to fear when we buy from the still .. but many

products are sold to brokers who then sell to major wholesalers and

clearing houses. With some exceptions (France being one) there is where

adulteration most often occurs. The further we get from the still the

more chance we have of getting an adulterated product. It is not the

small wholesalers or retailers we find on this and other aromatherapy

lists who adulterate oils .. we don't have the knowledge or the proper

set up to do this .. we're not chemists and we don't have labs. Plus I

know the folks in this business and with few exceptions I trust them to

not adulterate a product. But it makes it more critical for the small

dealers to be wary when they buy their products for resell.

 

How would they adulterate Rose Otto? By adding Phenyl ethyl alcohol.

Some years back a person was offering Balkan (not Bulgarian) Rose Otto

for a ridiculously low price .. I received a sample of it and it smelled

like acetone .. like nail polish remover. When Martin Watt was visiting

here I took him to meet Professor Baser and I took the Rose Otto sample.

It was tested and came out close to 70% PEA. The supplier was NOT aware

of this .. it had been tested .. by the company selling it to him!! I'm

sure none of you have ever bought from this company .. they are unknown

to most folks.

 

How would they adulterate Rose Hydrosol? They would continue to do what

they have been doing routinely with MANY hydrosols .. mixing them with

distilled water. How can you tell the difference? With your nose!!

 

I know of one company in Istanbul that routinely mixes Oregano Hydrosol

with 50% distilled water. They are not doing it on the sly .. they say

its too strong to be used straight. True it is .. but are they telling

the major buyers that its mixed? I don't know .. and maybe the buyer

doesn't care. But this year that company bought a large amount of Rose

Hydrosol. I will NOT name the company as I am living here and it would

be very reckless to do so. They are not selling direct to end users so

it wouldn't mean much to you anyway. I will recommend that when buying

Rose Hydrosol this year folks buy a small amount first .. check it out.

Y'all keep smiling. Butch http://www.AV-AT.com