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How to Make Essential Oils:
To all our Mayan's Secret followers and subscribers, and to all of you essential oil lovers.
Do you know how essential oils go from plant matter to bottle? Because u when you understand the processes behind them, we know you will absolutely love them that much more.
How to Source Your Essential Oils
Here at Mayan's Secret we take our practices very seriously. At Mayan’s Secret we bottle only the finest premium essential oils that 100% pure unrefined and farm grown, organically and 100% pure.
How the Essential Oil Extraction Process Works
You may have heard terms like “extraction” and “distillation,” but what do they mean and how are they different? Extraction describes the general process of separating essential oils from plant matter, and distillation is one method of extraction.
Did you know, Mayan's Secret oils are steam distilled to give us essential oils.
So Wat Are the Different Types of Essential Oil Extractions?
Here are two primary methods of turning plants into essential oils.
The Steam Distillation Process:
The remaining water (depending on the oil being distilled) becomes hydrosol, a product created from plants that contain water-soluble aromatic compounds. One worth trying?
Mayan's Secret Rose water Hydrosol.
You know, the best way to harvest plant matter is resin tapping. We tap the tree to release the resin, dry it, and then distill it. Some oils you know and love come from this process, including Frankincense, and Myrrh.
Cold pressing and What it Means for your Oils
Another method of extraction is cold pressing, which usually involves the entire fruit. All Mayan's Secret citrus oils, like the luxuriously scented Bergamot, come from this method in particular, which the oils are then extracted for their seriously fragrant scents we all love.
best use of essential oils to enhance well-being. We all love essential oils and their relaxing abilities, their incredibly aromatic scents and how their smells fill the areas around us with our diffusers, and their ability to soothe inflamed skin, or even calm our stomachs.
And all of us here at Mayan's Secret, believes that it’s important that we make sure these tools are available to everyone, especially as essential oils are researched, more and more.
The Unwell Aromatherapy documentary, is essentially about the use of essential oils in your daily life, is a show which explores the good and the bad side of aromatherapy. Although, helpful, all without explicit judgment.
Essential Oils Are Complex Mixtures of Aromatic Compounds
Essential oils are made of volatile aromatic compounds. Volatile aromatic compounds are small organic molecules that tend to change from the liquid state to the gas state at room temperature.
You know, these molecules are so incredibly small that a single drop of essential oil contains a lot of them. The word “volatile” emphasizes their tendency to evaporate quickly at room temperature. This property is what makes them smell so potent.