Qualified Essential oils
The utilization of essential oils can lead to outstanding performance in many fields as long as several quality factors could be repected :
The method of cultivation
The raw materials used must be wild plants cultivated without chemicals, 100% pure and natural. They must be caringly picked "by hand" in order to preserve the species and allow for qualified crops from one year to another.
The label AB, a guarantee of quality
The active ingredients of plants are extremly concentrated in essential oils. It is necessary to require the highest quality defined by the label AB. The production of Abiessence essential oils is controlled by ECOCERT (authorized organization). The control will be carried out in the field of crops, harvesting, distillation, packaging ...).
Harvest
The timing of the harvest is vital. It concerns the respect for the progress of flowering and maturity of the plant to gain maximium essential oils at the highest level in efficiency.
The extraction system
Abiessence essential oils are obtained by steam distillation of water at very low pressure in a stainless steel bain-marie which will not change their properties or their constitution. This mesure ensures that they have a special chemical and organoleptic quality (taste, color, odor). This method of extraction requires constant monitoring. In fact, time needed to distill varies from one kind of plants to another. Thus, it is crucial to respect this variation in order to obtain a qualified product.
The "identity card" of essential oils
Providing some indispensable information allows to know the origin and the exact nature of essential oils :
• The Latin name which specifies the botanical species.
• The origin of plants that may indicate a particular chemical specificity.
• The secretory organ : after the distillation, we can acquire different aromatic substances on their therapeutic properties, composition, smell ...
• The chemotypes : it is a chemical type. It is essential to define an essential oil. The principal molecule varies from one type of essential oils to another according to sun exposure, the composition of the soil, season, age of the plant ...
The chemotype allows to recognize the essential oils from the same botanical serie but with a different biochemical composition.
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