Carrier oils can be used for much more than just diluting your essential oils! The natural skin softening, moisturising and nourishing qualities of Quinessence Carrier oils can be used to soften wrinkles, increase elasticity and help balance an uneven complexion.
Vegetable and carrier oils have a plethora of fine uses which include acting as a carrier for therapeutic applications, as an excellent addition to your culinary creations, as a lathering agent for soap, and a binding medium for cosmetics. It is hard to imagine where we would be with our creations, if it were not for the goodness and substance that pure oil provides.
At Mountain Rose Herbs we are committed to providing you the most magnificent vegetable oils that are unsurpassed in color, depth, consistency, essential fatty acids and key nutrients.
Significant role to play
Carrier oils play a far more significant role in aromatherapy than many people realise, and in comparison to the essential oils some people feel they are of little importance. To believe this would be a mistake though, because they offer a wealth of health-giving benefits of their own. They contain vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids, and many of them soften and improve the condition of the skin. Technically classed as ‘fixed’ oils because they do not evaporate, carrier oils are also known as base oils and vegetable oils.
Essential vs. Carrier Oils
Essential oils are distilled from the leaves, bark, roots and other aromatic portions of a botanical. Essential oils evaporate and have a concentrated aroma. Carrier oils, on the other hand, are pressed from the fatty portions (seeds, nuts, kernels) and do not evaporate or impart their aroma as strongly as essential oils. Carrier oils can go rancid over time, but essential oils do not. Instead, essential oils “oxidize” and lose their therapeutic benefits, but they don’t go rancid.
Almond, sweet - Prunus amygdalus, P. dulcis (Family, Rosaceae) - USA - Obtained from the Nut of the tree and native to Asia and the Mediterranean this oil is the favorite Carrier oil for Essential oil aromatherapy blends. It can be used by itself for moisturizing skin. Good for all skin types. It is a favorite with aromatherapists, blending well with any other oil and penetrating the skin very well. Excellent for skin. Contains both oleic and linoleic acid an small amounts, vitamins A&B, and copper and iron. For damaged skin mix with equal amount of calendula and for mature skin mix with 10% wheatgerm, borage an macadamia nut oils.
Grapeseed: Botanical Name: Vitus vinifera Aroma: Light, slightly sweet with a hint of a nutty aroma.Texture: ThinColor: Virtually clear and has an almost unnoticeable tinge of yellow/green.Notes: Unlike most other carrier oils, grapeseed oil is solvent extracted and may have trace amounts of chemicals remaining. It has a lower shelf-life and goes rancid rather fast. Grapeseed oil should be stored in an amber bottle and in a cool dark area to reduce the chance of rancidity.
Coconut oil is, according to folkloric tales, good for many ailments, from wounds, burns, lice, ect. It also has anti-microbal activity. Coconut oil is an edible oil that has been consumed in tropical places for thousands of years. Studies done on native diets high in coconut consumption show that these populations are generally in good health, and don’t suffer as much from many of the modern diseases of western nations.
DEVIN
I don’t mean brands, I mean oils in general, like vegetable oil, olive oil, or something like that.
ADALBERTO
“We’re literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up” - James Howard Kunstler Global oil peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, Are today’s suburbs destined to become the slums of the future? This is a short version of “The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream”, a documentary about the end of the age of cheap oil. The complete 78-minute version of The End of Suburbia is available on DVD at www.endofsuburbia.com …
ALLEN
ABC Science has created an excellent peak oil documentary. It is comprehensive, riveting and relentless. The pace never lets up and the details never stop coming until a clear picture is established.
BENNETT
idence is overwhelming - Real extra virgin olive oil not only enhances the taste of food but is good for you, consider the following headlines:
Olive oil ‘acts like painkiller’ - BBC
Mediterranean Diet Adds Years to Your Life (high intake of … olive oil) - MedicalNewsToday.com
Oleic Acid Key to Olive Oil’s Anti-Cancer Effect - Reuters.com
However, there is a dark side - fraud in the olive oil marketplace:
Olive oil’s slippery supply line - denverpost.com
Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Are You Getting What You Pay For? - ABC News 7Online
“A clear case of fraud ….. almost all of the virgin and extra virgin olive oil produced by large commercial Italian olive oil plants” Italianfood.about.com
“of 73 olive oils … in the U.S. Only 4 per cent were pure olive oil. The rest were adulterated” - New York Times
The health benefits of extra virgin olive oil only apply to real extra virgin olive oil and not to fraudulently mislabeled products.
As most olive oil consumers know, the price of real extra virgin olive oil has risen dramatically. At the same time the quality of the products being offered has deteriorated dramatically. Logic would dictate that a significant percentage of olive oil consumers would prefer real extra virgin olive oil instead of the over-priced, mislabeled and adulterated products that have flooded the market.
However the olive oil consumer’s freedom to choose their product is limited to what is actually offered.
Food importers, distributors. brokers and retailers essentially decide between two types of products when it comes to the distribution of olive oil: A) A cheap mixed product or B) Real extra virgin olive oil:
A) Mixed products have no guarantee of quality, the paperwork may say ‘extra virgin olive oil’ but what is in the bottle is pomace, canola or some other cheap refined oil. Mixed products have no quality stated or implied, they are entirely price sensitive. So the distributor, broker, importer or retailer needs to constantly offer either the cheapest product or be very close to it for fear that at some point their supply will disappear and they will be undersold due to the market realities of working with this type of product.
This is where the consumer gets cheated - the labeling does not accurately reflect what is in the bottle. Take for example ‘light olive oil’ - what is ‘light’ olive oil? Olive oil made from ‘light’ olives? Light olive oil is 95% pomace, canola or some other cheap oil mixed in with 5% virgin olive oil. It stretches the imagination to think that olive oil consumers demand this type of product.
B) Real extra virgin olive oil obviously costs more to produce than the cheap, mixed products. But olive oil consumers benefit because they get what they pay for - the product. Real extra virgin olive oil is always that - real extra virgin olive oil - the product, the quality does not vary. Olive oil consumers always get what they want and what they pay for - the flavor enhancing attributes and all of the health benefits of real extra virgin olive oil.
It should be noted that due to current market factors, the price difference between real extra virgin olive oil and the cheap mixes has pretty much closed and in some cases is now inverted. Real extra virgin olive oil being less expensive than the cheap mixes.
So, who gets to decide what olive oil consumers consume?
We believe that this decision belongs to the consumer. Olive oil consumers should demand real extra virgin olive oil.
DWAIN
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CRUZ
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CORNELL
What basic type of oil can be purchased and safely used to create smoke in my Bachman HO steam engine, rather than ordering from Bachman? Thank you!
FRANKLYN
Coconut oil is truly the healthiest oil you can consume. It is rich in lauric acid, which is known for being antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal, and contains no trans fat (even olive oil has some trans fat). You can even use it on your skin to help prevent wrinkles.
Learn more about the health benefits that coconut oil has to offer in this video!
CLEMENT
One of my purse straps soaked up oil from an oil lamp and I can’t get the smell out of it.
CLIFF
