Therapeutic Grade?




USING ESSENTIAL OILS SAFELY:
 Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade ( the following in purple is from Butch Owens):  "what kind of real meaning can be attached to that?
It is Marketing Hype, formulated by the company, But .. it works to sell products to the uninformed.  In the U.S.A. .. in Aromatherapy there is no universal or legal meaning of the term.  
There is NO WAY to determine exactly what is or is not therapeutic .. man
does NOT have the capability to do this .. its all about natural synergy.
We can know what a particular isolated chemical can do .. and we can
extrapolate the expected therapeutic value of that isolated chemical .. but
we will be no closer to whole truth than we can be if we try to guess the
next number to be selected in a random drawing. We can NOT extrapolate with
success because we are missing the unknown effects of the whole synergy of
the natural product.

Can an inferior quality oil be therapeutic? Can a crappy vegetable soup
be nourishing? Obviously the answer to both questions is YES. Then we get
into an area that might seem to defeat the purpose of using quality EO ..
like .. Can a placebo be therapeutic? The answer again would be .. in many
cases .. YES.

If we are not medical doctors .. we should avoid the use of
terms like "therapeutic" in the second place .. to use them is to suggest
that we are peddling medicines without a license ..

Most sellers recognize two unofficial grades.  Aromatherapy Grade and Commercial Grade .. the former being an oil that is as it was when it exited the still .. the latter being either a manipulated oil .. or a pure .. but mediocre oil with a chemical profile that does not fit within the ideal
"footprint" of what fallible man has determined to be optimum for that
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