Comments on: Question on lavender oil and body butter http://herbfest.net/blog/question-on-lavender-oil-and-body-butter/ Herbs, fun, education - bring the family! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:11:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff http://herbfest.net/blog/question-on-lavender-oil-and-body-butter/comment-page-1/#comment-1697 Jeff Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:40:12 +0000 http://herbfest.net/blog/question-on-lavender-oil-and-body-butter/#comment-1697 I have a nice lavender plant that I got from Herbfest. I like to break off a piece and sniff it while I am in the garden, very relaxing. I have a nice lavender plant that I got from Herbfest. I like to break off a piece and sniff it while I am in the garden, very relaxing.

]]> By: Tish Pearl http://herbfest.net/blog/question-on-lavender-oil-and-body-butter/comment-page-1/#comment-947 Tish Pearl Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:51:25 +0000 http://herbfest.net/blog/question-on-lavender-oil-and-body-butter/#comment-947 Hi, I have worked with essential oils and herbs in personal care products for several decades. I had a retail store selling hand made soaps, lotions, balms, etc. Lavender and other herbs can be infused into olive or other oils, but the amount of linalool and other scent chemicals will be somewhat limited. In order to get enough scent chemicals into an infusion to add a fragrance, you really would need to add essential oils. Essential oils are distilled from aromatic plants and contain concentrations an order of magnitude greater than anything you can infuse. The short answer is that your fragrance will be most likely very light, and the balm will also have limited therapeutic value, although it's certainly a lovely idea. If you would like to read more about essential oils, I recommend Valerie Worwood's Complete Book of Aromatherapy and Essential Oils as a starting point. From my company's website: http://store.scent-works.com/definitionsfaq.html#EO "Essential Oils An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile, ethereal oils or aetherolea, or simply as the "oil of" the plant from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove. An oil is "essential" in the sense that it carries a distinctive scent, or essence, of the plant. Essential oils do not as a group need to have any specific chemical properties in common, beyond conveying characteristic fragrances. Essential oils are extracted from their plant hosts using a variety of methods including distillation, expressing, and solvent extraction (see "Extraction Methods for Plant Oils for further information). They are used in perfumes, cosmetics, soap and other products, for flavoring food and drink, and for scenting incense and household cleaning products. Various essential oils have been used medicinally at different periods in history. Medical applications range from skin treatments to remedies for cancer, and are often based on historical use of these oils for these purposes. Such claims are now subject to regulation in most countries, and have grown more vague to stay within these regulations. Interest in essential oils has revived in recent decades with the popularity of aromatherapy, a branch of alternative medicine which claims that the specific aromas carried by essential oils have curative effects. Oils are volatilized or diluted in a carrier oil and used in massage, diffused in the air by a nebulizer or by heating over a candle flame, or burned as incense, for example." Hope that helps. Hi,
I have worked with essential oils and herbs in personal care products for several decades. I had a retail store selling hand made soaps, lotions, balms, etc.

Lavender and other herbs can be infused into olive or other oils, but the amount of linalool and other scent chemicals will be somewhat limited. In order to get enough scent chemicals into an infusion to add a fragrance, you really would need to add essential oils. Essential oils are distilled from aromatic plants and contain concentrations an order of magnitude greater than anything you can infuse.

The short answer is that your fragrance will be most likely very light, and the balm will also have limited therapeutic value, although it’s certainly a lovely idea.

If you would like to read more about essential oils, I recommend Valerie Worwood’s Complete Book of Aromatherapy and Essential Oils as a starting point.

From my company’s website:

http://store.scent-works.com/definitionsfaq.html#EO
“Essential Oils

An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile, ethereal oils or aetherolea, or simply as the “oil of” the plant from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove. An oil is “essential” in the sense that it carries a distinctive scent, or essence, of the plant. Essential oils do not as a group need to have any specific chemical properties in common, beyond conveying characteristic fragrances.

Essential oils are extracted from their plant hosts using a variety of methods including distillation, expressing, and solvent extraction (see “Extraction Methods for Plant Oils for further information). They are used in perfumes, cosmetics, soap and other products, for flavoring food and drink, and for scenting incense and household cleaning products.

Various essential oils have been used medicinally at different periods in history. Medical applications range from skin treatments to remedies for cancer, and are often based on historical use of these oils for these purposes. Such claims are now subject to regulation in most countries, and have grown more vague to stay within these regulations.

Interest in essential oils has revived in recent decades with the popularity of aromatherapy, a branch of alternative medicine which claims that the specific aromas carried by essential oils have curative effects. Oils are volatilized or diluted in a carrier oil and used in massage, diffused in the air by a nebulizer or by heating over a candle flame, or burned as incense, for example.”

Hope that helps.

]]> By: evelyne s. bautista http://herbfest.net/blog/question-on-lavender-oil-and-body-butter/comment-page-1/#comment-512 evelyne s. bautista Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:58:19 +0000 http://herbfest.net/blog/question-on-lavender-oil-and-body-butter/#comment-512 In my own personal experience...i did try olive oil infusion with tea tree leaves..so far no negative results , except that the strong scent of olive oil overshadow the subtle scent of other herbs. So with lavender, you cannot have a very good aroma of your lavender oil with olive oil. In my own personal experience…i did try olive oil infusion with tea tree leaves..so far no negative results , except that the strong scent of olive oil overshadow the subtle scent of other herbs. So with lavender, you cannot have a very good aroma of your lavender oil with olive oil.

]]> By: Herbanite http://herbfest.net/blog/question-on-lavender-oil-and-body-butter/comment-page-1/#comment-484 Herbanite Thu, 13 May 2010 16:17:59 +0000 http://herbfest.net/blog/question-on-lavender-oil-and-body-butter/#comment-484 Linda I'm not aware of any chemical breakdown in the oil or the body butter oil so I would say try and see. Might want to start with a small sample amount first so you don't waste much until you are certain. I'll post this question to our herbfest blog, http://herbfest.net/blog/, and see if we get some other response. Linda I’m not aware of any chemical breakdown in the oil or the body butter oil so I would say try and see. Might want to start with a small sample amount first so you don’t waste much until you are certain. I’ll post this question to our herbfest blog, http://herbfest.net/blog/, and see if we get some other response.

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