Guest guest Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 Hello, everyone. I've been lurking and learning on the list for a few months. Now I have a question for all you wise ones: I've just been reading Kurt Schnaubelt. He talks about Everlast/Immortelle/Helichrysum being fine used neat. Recently, I've been using it and loving it in a fractionated coconut oil dilution (mostly for pain management). Any thoughts from you good people on its safety being used neat? Now, I'm off to batten down the hatches as Isabel seems to be headed straight this way. :-/ Many thanks. . .and wishes for the health & safety of you & yours - Prakash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 Good luck weathering the storm....Good luck to everyone in its path...stay safe. Carol - prakash Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:35 AM Helichrysum Neat? Hello, everyone. I've been lurking and learning on the list for a few months. Now I have a question for all you wise ones: I've just been reading Kurt Schnaubelt. He talks about Everlast/Immortelle/Helichrysum being fine used neat. Recently, I've been using it and loving it in a fractionated coconut oil dilution (mostly for pain management). Any thoughts from you good people on its safety being used neat? Now, I'm off to batten down the hatches as Isabel seems to be headed straight this way. :-/ Many thanks. . .and wishes for the health & safety of you & yours - Prakash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 Hi Prakash: I've learned to NEVER use any EO neat. Never, under any circumstances. It may be OK for awhile, but eventually, many people will develope sensitivities to the EO, and not be able to use it again in any dilution. I learned this from the experts. The EOs are SO strong-especially one w/the strenght of Heli. I use it in a 4% solution tops. Sometimes less. Rebecca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 Good morning, Prakash- I may be sounding a bit strong when I say this, but I think ANYONE advising to use ANY EO neat is a complete and total crackpot! Why, you wonder? Because I and several other Aromatherapists I know are sensitized to LAVENDER! I start losing my voice and having trouble breathing when I am around Lavender EO, Lavender buds, etc. All this from using Lavender neat a few times on mosquito bites. I tell our students when we teach classes, that sensitization is like Russian Roulette. You may be able to pour 40 gallons of neat EO on your head and never develop a sensitivity. Or you may be like me, where less than 40 drops is all it took to sensitize you. But you won't know if you're the 40 gallons or the 40 drops person til AFTER you are sensitized. ANd realize too that you are sensitized to one particular chemical component of the EO. And that this component will be present in many OTHER EOs, in foods (the biggest user of EOs is the food industry), in perfumes, household products, beauty products, etc., etc., etc. Aromatherapy works very, very well when well diluted to about 1%. Use any more than that in skin applications (and sometimes one should use very much LESS) and you are risking sensitization and other scary permanent reactions. And you are wasting money. More is not better. Shame on Kurt Schnaubelt! I advise anyone using EOs on the skin to buy Martin Watt's book, 'Plant Aromatics.' You can get it from Butch at www.av-at.com Okay, off my soapbox now! :-D Lynda prakash wrote: > Hello, everyone. I've been lurking and learning on the list for a few months. > > Now I have a question for all you wise ones: > > I've just been reading Kurt Schnaubelt. He talks about > Everlast/Immortelle/Helichrysum being fine used neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 At 01:04 AM 9/19/03 +0000, you wrote: >I've just been reading Kurt Schnaubelt. He talks about >Everlast/Immortelle/Helichrysum being fine used neat. Recently, I've been >using >it and loving it in a fractionated coconut oil dilution (mostly for pain >management). Any thoughts from you good people on its safety being used neat? just that it's unnecessary...and since we already know people who are sensitized to lavender and to tea tree because of unwise neat usage...why take a chance on sensitizing yourself to THE most healing essential oil there is? now, in case of emergency...that's different... but it doesn't NEED neat usage... and that's a waste of a very valuable limited resource~ Your source for superb Essential Oils, Aromatherapy Accessories, Information, Books and more! Visit us at: <http://www.naturesgift.com> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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