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Chapter VIII by Deborah Dolen Methods of Distillation

AROMATHERAPY - Chapter VIII Methods of Distillation

Excerpt How to Make Perfume and Aromatherapy Basics Copyright © Deborah Dolen 2011 This e-book is available in full version on Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook. By Deborah Dolen Mabel White

I was talking to a friend I highly idolized as an essential oil guru. I had not talked to her in years. I was saying how beautiful the Lime essential oil was from Mexico these days, and what a lovely shade of green it was. She said “Oh, what was the method of extraction?” And I happily replied, "Expeller pressed," wondering why she did not know that. She hesitated and then pronounced “It cannot be real essential oil--they are only steam distilled.” It was at that moment time stood still--and a creepy feeling she did not know squat after all of these years. To me, it was a very basic concept--that some essential oils are expressed (pressed). Of course I had advanced a lot over the years we did not speak. Her professed knowledge had formerly been her power over me, a reason to have my attention, which I never understood until that moment.

Standards and definitions regarding essential oils are defined best by NAHA. NAHA, pretty much the governing organization in Aromatherapy and defines an essential oil as the following:

"The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in their Vocabulary of Natural Materials (ISO/D1S9235.2) defines an essential oil as follows: "An essential oil is a product made by distillation with either water or steam or by mechanical processing of citrus rinds or by dry distillation of natural materials. Following the distillation, the essential oil is physically separated from the water phase."

When making my own macerations, I will usually order in a professional grade essential oil from that same herb and compliment my blend with a little of the real stuff. Lavender would be a great example. Many lavender festivals grow their own, but often order out any lavender notes they cannot achieve or just for more supplies than they can grow.

Excerpt How to Make Perfume and Aromatherapy Basics Copyright © Deborah Dolen 2011 This e-book is available in full version on Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook. By Deborah Dolen Mabel White

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Deborah Dolen is the Editor in Chief for Mabel White DIY and author of over 25 DIY books, 1,000 articles and several TV "how to" Films. Deborah Dolen is also an environmental writer and has her own content syndication. Deborah Dolen was widowed when she was on her 30's and went on to raise three great daughters in FL up against many obstacles. This is the time period she generated her most fascinating DIY books.

Deborah Dolen was born in a Catholic Infant Home on Niagara Falls, the U.S. side. It was known as Our Lady of Victory. Deborah grew up in the Adirondack mountains in Upstate New York although moved around a lot and always in transition. Her teenage years were more stable and thoroughbred race horses were her passion. She skipped school a lot in the 70's to walk and groom the likes of Man o' War and Secretariat. When she was not grooming horses in Saratoga she was hitting the ski slopes of Killington in Vermont, Pikes Peak, or Gore Mountain to name a few. To this day K-2's are her favorite skis and Head are her favorite bindings.

In her 20's Deborah Dolen built some 520 legal clinics for the poor from the ground up and ran for 17 years. People simply needed affordable legal access and that still has not changed much. Having grown up poor and discriminated against-even disallowed to play with certain toys...Deborah had never been a quiet type and bucked many regimes as an adult. In the 80's she felt almost all legal fees were oppressive to the majority for no reason and feels they still are. Her organization helped well over 100,000 people. Many of those were able to teach other people in turn. As with health care, Canada does not charge its citizens for most common family law issues and Deborah feels family issues, including financial ones, should not be a feeding frenzy in the states as it still certainly is. No one should profit of the demise of another person.

Fast forward a few decades and Deborah Dolen is very much into flying and canine rescue as well as DIY projects she writes about and films from her Florida home. Although her passions have always been with horse racing she is very into auto racing, focus and performance in Daytona and Charlotte, NC. Deborah presently writes about environmental topics beyond DIY subjects that will always fascinate her. Her dog Ringo, adopted from Katrina, is usually by her side.

You can join Deborah Dolen her on twitter facebook or check out her home page for RSS syndication. See demos of her work on YouTube here and Amazon here. Mabel White