People have been distilling essential oils in one way or another for thousands of years.

And today we're going to talk about the most up-to-date methods of distilling the most pure essential oils.

Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Dutera, the podcast where you'll hear exciting,

useful, and simple everyday uses for essential oils from experts in the field.

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Today we're excited to talk to Dr. Scott Johnson, author of multiple books and hundreds of articles about health, wellness, and

essential oils, about the different methods of essential oil distillation and how they're used

today. Scott, thank you so much for being here with us today.

That's my pleasure. Always glad to share more about essential oils. Yes, this is this topic

that I am very excited about because I feel like it doesn't get talked about enough.

So my first question for you is, how long have people been extracting essential oils from plants?

Well, crude aromatic extracts have been used as far back as recorded history. Historical records and even archaeological

evidence suggests that ancient cultures extracted volatile aromatic extracts for rituals and for

food and religious purposes, health and even economic reasons.

But true essential oils weren't really extracted until around the late 10th to early 11th century.

The Persians are usually credited with being the first to extract true essential oils using like distillation

methods and and then it snowballed from there in other European countries where they started to

adopt that. Right. Now, you mentioned this has been going on basically since recorded history.

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