About Essensuals
Canada
"Simple Beauty in Aromatherapy"
"If you get simple beauty and naught else,
you get about the best thing God invents."
Robert Browning
Aromatherapy is the practice of using essential oils to increase your
physical, emotional and mental well-being. Essential oils are highly
concentrated essences found in flowers, herbs, roots, seeds, leaves, bark and
berries. These fragrant essences have many therapeutic qualities which we have
incorporated into our body care products. They can alleviate anxiety &
restore calm, act as an aphrodisiac or sharpen the mind if need be! As a gift
from nature we have access to a complete pharmacy with prescriptions for
health and well-being. It is a whole new world to explore that is simple and
beautiful.
You'll love what we have to offer!
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"Simple Beauty in Aromatherapy"
My name is Arnie Neumann and I would like to introduce you to our
company and our products. Essensuals
Canada is a Canadian company
that thrives on simple beauty in body care & aromatherapy.
We hope you
will too!
Simple Scents
"Physicians might, I believe make greater use of
scent than they do..... for I have often noticed that they cause changes
in me and act on my spirits according their qualities."
Michel de Montaigne, 1580
Your nose knows. It knows the simplicity of the magic of our
sense of smell. Since the beginning of time, scent has been used to guide,
stimulate and comfort the body and soul. Scent can trigger long-forgotten
memories or carry us off into mystical unknown places. We all know the
experience of smelling a rose or the forest floor and being instantly
reminded of a certain quality in life. Perhaps this most profound part of
our sense of smell is that experience of simple beauty. This same quality
of life has been the basis for designing our company and our products.
With an attitude of respect and appreciation of nature,
we will blend the gifts of the forest and fauna with our own creativity so
that we will contribute to the quality of life in the health and
well-being of all of us and our planet.
Keeping with nature's example, our company and our products are created
with quality and integrity, they are simple and beautiful. All of our
products are crafted by hand (very important!) and our packaging is always
recycled, reusable or recyclable. Our commitment is to obtain pure and
natural ingredients for all of our products. No animal testing, no animal
by-products, no artificial coloring agents. Believe it. Pure is possible.
We know there exists a more gentle, natural approach to care for
ourselves... our focus is on the use of pure essential oils in body care
and aromatherapy.
Aromatherapy is the practice of using essential oils to increase your
physical, emotional and mental well-being. Essential oils are highly
concentrated essences found in flowers, herbs, roots, seed, leaves, barks
and berries. These fragrant essences have many therapeutic qualities which
we have incorporated into our body care. They can alleviate anxiety &
restore calm, act as an aphrodisiac or sharpen the mind if need be! As a
gift from nature we have access to a complete pharmacy with prescriptions
for health and well-being. It is a whole new world to explore that is
simple and beautiful. Deepak Chopra says that "we
are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is
pure potential, it is the filed of all possibilities and infinite
creativity. Being infinite and unbounding is is also pure joy, pure
knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, invincibility, simplicity and
bliss. This is our essential nature. Our essential nature is one of pure
potentiality.
Our company name was chosen because it is our own philosophy of life.
The forest, the trees, the flowers, the very earth herself is Essential to our
existence. The Aroma our products surround us with, We can be nurtured and fed by Nature, if, as with all
relationships we honor and respect what is being given to us. The Nature of each other. The true part. The real part. The
Essential part!
You'll love what we have to offer!
There's more information below to give you a
better
understanding of our essential oils, where and how they
are made!
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What
are essential oils?
The aromatic substances found in plants
are known as its essence. These essences are combinations of
various alcohols, hydrocarbons, phenols, aldehydes, esters, and
ketones that occur naturally in the plant. Essential oils come
from flowers, blossoms, leaves, fruit, rind, peel, seeds, bark,
wood, and resin. The part of the plant varies according to the
purpose and use of the essential oil. The oil is connected to so
many of the biological properties of the plant that it's
considered essential to the plant and so is referred to as
essential oil.
Essential oils are
like human hormones. They exist in very small quantities within
the plant. It takes 50 pounds of Eucalyptus, 150 pounds of
Lavender, 500 pounds of Rosemary, 1,000 pounds of Jasmine, and
2,000 pounds of rose just to extract one pound of essential oil
from each of these types of plants. Due to the highly concentrated
nature of essential oils, most applications require drops, rather
than ounces. The price of the essential oil is directly related to
the amount of plant material required for extraction or
distillation.
The oils also contain plant hormones
and possess anti-bacterial
properties. In general, essential oils are naturally
antibacterial, and antiseptic. Their anti-inflammatory properties
help reduce swelling. They also act as a natural analgesic,
helping to reduce pain. The antiseptic power of plant oils has
been observed in direct contact with the oil and in the presence
of the fragrance vapors.
Essential oils are 75-100
times more concentrated than dried herbs. Contrary to their name,
pure essential oils are not at all oily, they are light and
non-greasy. One of the most impressive tests for purity of an
essential oil can be done by placing a drop on a piece of paper.
Pure essential oil will dry without a trace.
Only about 700
plants world-wide are considered to be aromatic, and therefore
useful for the production of essential oils. While most oils are
distilled from the plant material, the types of plant, the unique
chemical make-up of its oil, and the location of the oil within
the plant determine the extraction process.
There are three (3) main extraction
processes: expression, distillation, and solvent extraction.
- Expression is the best choice for
citrus fruits, because the oil is found in tiny sacs just
inside the fruit skin.
- Distillation is the most common
method. Most plant oils yield to this process, especially
herbaceous plants such as rosemary, and spices such as
cinnamon. Most flower essences, such as jasmine and carnation,
are too delicate for distillation and a solvent extraction is
the only method that allows the recovery of these oils.
- Solvent extraction is the process
of soaking the plant extracts in hexane for a period of time.
It is then boiled down to a greasy consistency which is called
concrete. This concrete is then dissolved in alcohol and then
boiled again to burn off the alcohol to extract the absolute.
The location of
the oil is unique to each plant. The oils are found in special
cells within the plant roots (ginger), bark (cinnamon), wood
(cedar & sandalwood), branches (petitgrain), leaves
(rosemary), sap resins (benzoin & myrrh), flowers (jasmine),
and fruit (orange).
Some plants may
yield more than one oil, depending on where on the plant the oil
is extracted. The bitter orange tree is such a plant, yielding
bitter orange oil from the fruit, petitgrain from the leaves and
terminal branches, and Neroli from the blossoms. Essential oils
actively participate in the development of the plant. The plant
uses the fragrance released by the oils to attract or repel
insects, communicate with other plants, and protect themselves
from heat or cold.
Once considered to
be "New Age", the science of aromatherapy is now a multi
billion dollar industry. The biological and psychological role of
scent in humans is still not well understood; but, the benefits of
essential oils are historic. The odor molecules of essential oils
are quickly absorbed through the skin and nasal passages, passing
through the blood-brain barrier and entering the bloodstream,
enhancing the antibacterial effect. Essential oils also have a
pronounced effect on the brain's limbic system that effect our
moods. For these reasons, essential oils have historically been
used in the soap and perfume industries.
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The information contained
herein is not intended to treat diagnose or prescribe,
but is to be used
as a reference guide.
We do not claim that the use of our products should be substituted for
treatment
by a licensed medical professional.
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