White Birch Oil is extracted from the bark  and leaf buds of the white birch tree. It is grown in Sweden, Germany, northern Russia, and Finland.

Birch has been used for centuries as a treatment for skin problems and arthritic or rheumatic conditions. Scandinavians hang small bundles of the leafy branches in their saunas in order to create a fragrant steam which will deep cleanse the skin and boost the circulation.

 White Birch essential oil is anti­-inflammatory, soothing, diuretic and antiseptic. It has a woody, leathery, warm smell.

In aromatherapy, it is excellent for eczema and dry skin dandruff, as well as fungal infections. It Also helps break down cellulite and stop fluid retention.

Home use of White Birch Essential Oil

Massage, baths. Diluted with a carrier oil, massage into the thighs, buttocks and tummy to reduce the ‘bloat’ of PMT or help break down stubborn cellulite. Massage it on areas of extra-dry skin or add a few drops to a warm bath. And a few drops in a hot footbath will soothe fungal infections such as athlete’s foot.

Safety Tips for White Birch Essential Oil

White Birch essential oil is perfectly safe for home use as long as it is diluted before application.

Bergamot Essential Oil is extracted from the peel of the nearly ripe, bitter orange fruit. Today it is grown com­mercially in Southern Italy, Sicily, Morocco, and parts of Africa.

Bergamot plant has been used since the 16th century in southern Europe to counter fever. It is bergamot that gives Earl Grey tea its flavor, and is a common fragrance and fixative in cosmetics, toiletries and sun tanning products.

The Bergamot essential oil is uplifting, refreshing and antiseptic. It has a subtle, fresh, spicy lemon smell with a warm, balsamic undertone.

In aromatherapy, it is used to treat acne, tiredness, depression, irritability, melancholy, stress, and greasy skins. It is a good deodorant and will help kill germs in your home.

Home use of Bergamot essential oil

Massage, baths, inhalation. Because of its wonderful smell, de stressing effect and antiseptic properties, place few drops in a saucer of hot water on top of a radiator to freshen a room. It may be inhaled directly from a tissue for emotional upset or negative moods. Use it in moderation a maximum of five drops, for massage or in a bath to lift your spirits.

Safety Tips for Bergamot essential oil

Bergamot oil can irritate skin, especially if it is subsequently exposed to sunlight. It is safe for home use, if well diluted.

The Bay essential oil is extracted from the berries and dried leaves of the bay rum tree. A native of South America, it is now grown in Jamaica, Barbados, and throughout the West Indies.

West Indian bay leaves have traditionally been steeped in rum to make hair tonic. Though the Victorians thought it cured hair loss, it is now known to be mildly antiseptic and helps treat greasy hair or flaky scalps.

The Bay essential oil has a masculine, woody, clove-like smell and is both stimulating and warming. It is antiseptic and has astringent properties.

In aromatherapy, Bay essential oil is excellent as a scalp stimulant, removing grease from hair and bringing blood to the skin surface. It is also good for, cellulite or muscular aches, Poor circulation.

Home use of BAY Essential Oil

Massage inhalation, compress, poultice. It is best used well diluted with a friction massage, to increase the circulation boosting effects, particularly on, the scalp, across stiff, tense shoulders, directly on aching muscles or areas of cellulite, and to warm, winter-chilled hands or feet. It can be inhaled with steam to relieve nose, throat or chest infections.

Safety Tips for Bay Essential Oil:

Bay essential oil should be used in moderation only as it can irritate the mucous membrane. Its main constituent, eugenol, can corrode metal so always store in a dark glass bottle.

BASIL essential Oil is extracted from the flowering sweet basil. Today it is grown commercially throughout Pacific Islands, Europe, the Mediterranean, and in America.

Basil has been thought of as an aphrodisiac for centuries and featured heavily in most diets. It was once thought to ward off evil spirits and is still worn tucked in the hat to scare away insects in Mediterranean climates.

Basil essential oil has a very high proportion of camphor and a warm, sweet­-spicy, aromatic smell. It is a refreshing, light and uplifting tonic.

In aromatherapy, it is used for nervous anxiety, insomnia, and tiredness, headaches, insect bites,  muscular aches or sprains and poor circulation.

Home use of Basil essential Oil:

Massage, baths, inhalation. A few drops on a tissue clears the head. Diluted with massage oil, it can be rubbed in to relieve insect bites or aches and pains. And the smell of sweet basil in the bath will lift your spirits.

Safety Tips for Basil Essential Oil:

Basil is potent and may cause skin irritation in some people, so always use cautiously. Not to be used during pregnancy.

Oil is extracted from the root, fruit or seed of the plant. It is grown in Belgium, Hungary,Germany and is a native of Europe.

Angelica is best known as the green, candied stem used to decorate cakes.

Traditionally the root was, chewed and burnt toward off infection during 14th- and 15th-century plagues and to cure coughs or indigestion.

The essential oil has an earthy, peppery, musky smell. It is a good expectorant, an excellent digestive, and, helps with rheumatic conditions, indigestion, flatulence and colic.

 In aromatherapy, it is a germ-killer, excellent for coughs and colds, flu, muscular aches and rheumatism. It has a calming effect on the digestion and is warming and relaxing.

Home use of ANGELICA Essential Oil

Massage, inhalation, compress, baths. when inhaled with steam it relieves the smoker’s cough or congestion of a chesty. A few drops on a tissue clears a blocked nose. Five drops in the bath, or mixed with 2 tablespoons of carrier oil and massaged in, will speed the relieve indigestion, healing of cuts and bruises and soothe aching muscles or joints.

Special note about ANGELICA Essential Oil :

The root oil is photo-toxic, so it may cause skin irritations or avoid exposure to sunshine after use. Avoid during pregnancy.

 This instinctive response to smell is what aromatherapy, which has become one of the most exciting new areas of research for industry, is based on. In France, perfume manufacturers are now creating ‘mood’ fragrances to make the wearer feel and smell better in one go. In America, car manufacturers are currently researching air-conditioning systems to time-release essential oils and keep motorists alert at the wheel. In Japan an alarm clock that pre-releases fragrance so you wake in a good mood is available. And in the United Kingdom relaxing odors are given to patients in hospital to prepare them for therapy. Developments like these are soon going to make our sense of smell more important once again.

 There are more than 10,000 different odors that the human nose can smell, but most of us can only recognize a tenth of them because we have become so lazy. Happily, smells, like many other things, can be relearnt and memorized. All you have to do is train your nose to be aware of the different aromas it encounters.

To help you, here are two simple tests which use common household ingredients and will tell you (1) how good your sense of smell is, and (2) which essential oils you will like best. For the first test, you need to wear a blindfold and have a friend or partner assist you; the second you can do alone.

 1 Essential Oil Testing – The Sniff And Tell Test

Using the chart below, get your friend to choose any ten items that you have in the house. It is important that you don’t know the ones selected, so wear your blindfold, and no peeping. 

 Your friend must cut any fruit, crush fresh (but not dried) herbs and open jars, bottles or tubes, then, one by one, hold each item about three inches away from the tip of your nose for up to 30 seconds, while you try to guess what it is.

If you get five or more items correct, you have an above-average sense of smell. But don’t rest on your laurels. Keep practicing until you score ten out of ten.

 2 Essential Oil Testing – The Fragrance Family Test

Again, using the chart below, choose three items from each category (three floral, three citrus, three green, etc). Mix them up and smell them randomly, putting the ones you like on one side and the ones you dislike on another. It helps if you keep your eyes closed while you sniff, as this will help you to concentrate on the smell rather than what you see.

 Then work out which fragrance categories you liked the most smells from. These are the categories you naturally prefer. For example, you might like citrus and green more than floral, woody and spicy).

Most good suppliers stock 40 or more oils, so when you start buying them restrict your initial choice to the categories you instinctively prefer.

Uses of Geranium Rose Essential Oil

The oil is made from the yellow leaves as these have stronger aroma as compared to greener and
younger leaves. Cheaper versions of this oil are made from P. odorantissimum oil, distilling it
over rose. The stalk and leaves are used for the extraction. The geranium rose essential oil is
composed of various chemical constituents such as myrcene, a-pinene, linalool, menthone,
geraniol, citronelloe, geranyl acetate and geranyl butyrate.

Geranium rose essential oil does not cause any side-effects as it is non-irritant, non-toxic and
non-sensitizing. However, it can cause sensitivity is some people. As it balances the hormonal
system, its usage must be avoided during pregnancy and lactation.

Geranium rose essential oil is known to have antiseptic, antidepressant, diuretic, cytophylactic,
tonic, styptic, deodorant and vermifuge properties. Geranium rose essential oil has a soothing effect on nervous system, and is known to relieve anxiety and depression. It lifts the spirits and has the mood boosting effect.

The haemostatic nature of this oil helps system of the body to balance, and when adrenal cortex is balanced and stimulated, the hormonal system is aligned and corrected. It has a great stimulating effect on the lymphatic system, and helps detoxify the body. It helps females by treating the PMS and balance the heavy periods and vaginal secretion.

The geranium rose essential oil helps balance the sebum secretion, and clear oily and sluggish skin. The oil has diuretic effect on the body, and corrects the poor elimination of waste material and water from the body, creating a good balance. It is also useful in treating gall stones, jaundice, nose bleeds and other hemorrhaging.

The oil has a great all-over balancing effect, and creates a good balance between dry and oily skin, making it supple and clearing the congestion. It can be diluted in the shampoo to get rid of head lice. Geranium rose essential oil can be used in the massage oils to assist with various disorders.

Geranium rose essential oil blends well with basil, angelica, carrot seed, bergamot, citronella, cedarwood, jasmine, grapefruit, neroli, rosemary, orange, lavender and lime.

Uses of Bulgarian Rose Essential Oil

Bulgarian rose essential oil has a pleasant odor, and is safe to use in aromatherapy. When used for massage, this oil improves circulation and acts as a digestive tonic. It also helps relieve menopausal problems, PMS, constipation, broken veins, gastric ulcers, nausea and liver problems. Bulgarian rose essential oil helps calm the puffy skin, alleviate itchy, dry, sensitive, chopped and inflamed skin, and beautify ageing and wrinkled skin.

Bulgarian rose essential oil can be added to the bathwater or burner/vaporizer to release the emotional or stress related problems including postnatal depression, insomnia, nervous tension and depression. The oil is also useful in wound healing and impotence problems.

Bulgarian rose essential oil is a complicated mixture of over 300 different components, and the major component is obtained from blossom is phenyl-ethyl-alcohol. Rose alcohols geraniol, nerol and citronellol are also the main components. Though other components are present in trace amounts, they are quite important for good quality of the oil. The oil is yellow to yellow-green in color, and tends to solidify to the translucent mass at temperatures less than 20 degrees.

Bulgarian rose valley is located in between Sredna Gora mountains and Balkan range, and is home to production of exquisite Bulgarian rose essential oil. Unique soil and climatic conditions make this valley one of the biggest producers of rose otto in the world. The cloudiness, air, precipitation, and humidity in May and June produce roses that yield high percentage of oil.

Bulgarian rose essential oil is produced through chemical extraction of fragrant compound of fresh rose flowers. Pure Bulgarian rose essential oil has a very strong smell, and beta damascenone, rose oxide, beta ionine and beta damascene contribute to its distinctive scent. The quality of this oil is determined by presence of beta damascenone. When buying Bulgarian rose essential oil, check for the percentage of phenylethanol, which should be low. It is common to adulterate this oil with palmarosa and geranium oil, and both are rich in geranoil. Adulteration does not remove all the healing properties of this oil, but can definitely harm the body. You must be extra careful when buying expensive oils like geranium rose essential oil. Make sure that it is certified by the government authorities, and you get the authenticity certificate.

Reputable Source

The good news is that if you research your options well you will be able to find more reasonably priced natural organic essential oils. All you need to do is verify that you are buying the natural organic essential oil from a reputable source and that the items are in fact truly natural and organic.

Most of us know that the price of natural organic essential oil is in any case quite high and so when you come across products that are inexpensive your doubts will begin to get the better of you. The reason why some companies are able to offer less expensive natural organic essential oils is that their methods of cultivation and production are simple and so the costs are kept low.

Essentials oils are in any case normally extracted from roots, leaves, flowers and nuts as well as from fruits. To lower costs it is necessary to do wild harvesting or engage in commercial growth and the extraction processes have to be simplified though the process used will depend on the part of plant from which the essential oil is being extracted. More sophistication and more technology-based extraction processes along with improved harvesting methods are making it possible to extract purer essential oil.

The main reason why prices of natural organic essential oil are high is that the quantity of plant required to extract a kilo of natural organic essential oil is quite huge; in fact, it takes an estimated five hundred kilos of rose petal to extract just a single liter of rose essential oil. Finally, climatic conditions too play a part in the price of natural organic essential oil and so a bad season can make the prices shoot up while a good season will see the opposite happening.

Minimum Requirements

However, before you can get to buy wholesale organic essential oils it is often necessary that you have in your possession a tax number and in addition you may need to have a license to do business. The good news is that obtaining a tax number is not difficult as it is readily available from the IRS website. For the business license you will need to get in touch with your state authority and for more information on this you need only check your state’s Small Business Administration which provides a lot of useful information.

Next, you need some information regarding how to buy wholesale organic essential oils and this in turn involves learning what the minimum order level is which often varies from one supplier to the other and which could be as low as fifty dollars or as much as five hundred dollars. Often, a wholesaler might require that your first order for wholesale organic essential oils be of a minimum amount after which you can start buying whatever quantity suits your needs.

You should, when buying wholesale organic essential oils, ask for discounts that in fact most wholesalers are willing to offer and which will mean getting to affect greater savings, especially when you place a large order. Also, be sure to enquire about the payment terms which can include Cash on Delivery and in other cases it could be a credit card payment.

Some of the best resources from where you can purchase wholesale organic essential oils include places such as Starwest Botanicals, Simplers Botanical Company, Essential Wholesale and Lebermuth.

When it concerns shopping for wholesale organic essential oil and even for small purchases of essential oils it pays to realize that not all essential oils are created equal. This means that in order to pick the best organic essential oils you need to look only at those essential oils that have been certified by bodies such ECOCERT and Nature et Progres and also Agrobio. This certification at least ensures that the products conform to certain minimum standards and furthermore it is assumed that every ingredient in the essential oil will be organic and so too will be the processes that were used to make the essential oil.