Lime and Photosensitivity

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Hi Anya, Christy, other good folks ..

 

Everything in the URL you quote might be right as rain. But I have a

few problems with their logic.

 

> > No, ....it's not a joke........I said I used distilled lime, not

> > pressed lime. And as far as the bath and body store goes...I assume

> > they are using fragrance oils?? Christy

>

> Well, Christy, I wouldn't use it for a leave-on product because of

> questions about the provenance of the 'distilled' oil.

> http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/Chem_Background/ExSumPdf/LemonLimeOil

s.pdf

 

I don't understand .. " Two samples of distilled lime oil (derived from

expressed lime oil), however, were found to be phototoxic. "

 

Two samples of alleged distilled lime which were in fact expressed?

 

But .. why would anybody substitute expressed lime without a buyer's

knowledge when it costs about DOUBLE the price of distilled lime?

 

> See section 6.1 about phototoxicity found in some test subjects when using

> distilled lime oil. There are many other references, especially in med/derm

> literature about the way 'distilled' lime EO is not to be trusted,

> basically. It is manufactured for he food industry, and a combo

> expression/distillation process is sometimes ued, and most AT suppliers

> would *not* know this when purchasing the stuff for resale.

 

Again .. why adulterate with a substance that costs TWICE as much. But

it is true that if we make the determination that we can't trust any EO

to contain what they are supposed to contain .. then everything we have

learned about safe use of EO and AT is wasted effort and everything we

think we know is useless information.

 

But then .. that goes for a bottle of bourbon too. Damn .. I'd hate to

think my next bottle of Wild Turkey might contain donkey pee too. Just

thinking about it is enough to drive a person to drink. :-(

 

As for lime being developed for the food industry .. ALL the EO we use

are developed for industrial use. We fool ourselves if we want to think

there are distillers out there hoping to make it big dealing with the

piddly Aromatherapy industry. Distillation became an industry just to

support the cosmetics and flavoring industry. Some of the production of

some EO also goes to the pharmaceutical industry but AT uses somewhere

between 2-5% of the EO produced .. depending of the EO.

 

> In addition, furocoumarins may not be the only 'culprit' in phototoxicity

> and photocarcinogenicity of citrus oils (also found in the cited NIH article.

 

I think they are crying wolf. Things like that can happen even in such

reports because they are written by imperfect critters and the more one

writes the more it appears that one knows. I have never heard of any

distilled Lime oil causing photosensitivity .. nor do I believe anybody

who is not ready for a nut ward would adulterate an oil with a product

that costs twice as much .. nor does Plant Aromatics agree with this.

 

> Yes, the B & B store uses FOs (maybe with a little EO mixed in, about

> .5%, IIRC.) HTH.

 

And .. I don't sell distilled Lime oil so there is no vested interest in

my arguement. ;-P

 

Oh yea .. for you retail buyers .. even when I raise my Retail prices on

Rose Otto I think you will still find them very competitive .. it all

depends of where one starts from - huh?

 

Wholesale .. nothing I can do about that .. nothing anybody can do.

 

> Anya

> http://member.newsguy.com/~herblady

> ©

 

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