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dragontatoes:

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thebibliosphere:

Oh my god, food extract is not the same as an essential oil.

Food extract is the flavoring of something cooked down into a carrier oil or alcohol that is safe for human ingestion.

Essential oil is the pure extract of the plant refined down and distilled for concentrated medicinal purposes to a significantly higher strength than simply adding ground up mint leaves to your water. The two are not comparable in any way.

Cinnamon extract and cinnamon essential oil are not the same thing.

One is about 100 times the strength of the other and can also cause acute organ failure. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the food extract.

Sweet gods I’m not trying to be mean, I want you to be aware and safe and stop putting yourselves and others at risk. Please.

Like maybe my tone is hard to read, maybe it just comes off as really angry but it’s not, it’s fear and worry. I read posts and clutch my head in alarm going “no! No! That’s how people die!” And then I get exasperated because a bunch of people not formally qualified chime in with “um actually this is a lie” and it’s not, it’s really, really not.

I’m not some big pharma advocate. I’m a crunchy witch hippy just like you with salt rock lamps and rose quartz all over my house. I just happen to have spent the last 15 years of my life studying the actual science of holistic medicines and I’m trying to help you not get hurt (or worse) becuase you trusted a sales person with no idea what the ever loving hell they were talking about beyond a sales pitch designed to maximize profit. Gah.

Extracts aren’t even pure flavor, they’re mostly alcohol, and I believe it’s safe to ingest as much as you can stand to put in your mouth.
There’s a bottle of orange oil in our house that says to dilute 1 drop in four ounces of fluid (good luck getting only a single drop). That’s also foodgrade oil. Don’t ingest essential oils that aren’t foodgrade, and don’t so much as touch it until it’s diluted to only 1-2 drops per cup of plain water.

As previously stated in other posts, there is no such thing as food grade essential oil. Its a label made up by marketing companies to make you feel safe about drinking them. Hell “therapeutic grade” doesn’t even mean anything, there’s no standard for control on the US that is officially recognized by any health board.

You can swish some oils on your mouth when diluted with a carrier oil (I use olive oil or coconut for mouth rinsing) mixed with water, but water alone does not dilute essential oils in any safe way to use on or in the body.

Water + neat eo in an air diffuser = safe

Water + neat eo on skin = at risk of chemical burn

Water + neat eo for drinking = at risk of internal chemical burn and or other possible complications.

Tinctures and teas guys, tinctures and teas and extracts for eating.

Essential oils = do not swallow.

I’ve been doing this for longer than some of you have been alive, I’m trying to keep you that way.