What is an Essential Oil?
Essential Oil Solutions with dōTERRA
doTERRA International LLC
4.4 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we sit down with Dr. Scott Johnson to discuss what an essential oil is. He'll talk about why some plants give us essential oils when others don't, how long people have been using essential oils, how we get essential oils, and more. Plus he'll share some excellent resources like, the doTERRA Essential Oil Specialist Certification course, the doTERRA Essential Oil Safety Course, and the AromaTouch Technique Certification course, to help you learn more about essential oils.
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| 0:00.0 | We talk about essential oils every week on this podcast, but what is an essential oil? |
| 0:10.2 | Today we'll break it all down for you. |
| 0:13.5 | Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Dutera, the podcast where you'll hear exciting, |
| 0:19.6 | useful, and simple everyday uses for essential oils from experts in the field. |
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| 1:03.6 | more. Open to U.S. orders only. Today we're excited to talk to Dr. Scott Johnson, |
| 1:13.1 | Director of Product Management and author of multiple books and hundreds of articles about health, wellness, and essential oils, |
| 1:17.9 | all about what an essential oil is. |
| 1:22.4 | Scott, thank you so much for sitting down with us today. |
| 1:25.2 | My pleasure. I'm glad to be with you again. |
| 1:27.4 | We are so excited to have you here to talk about this basic foundational level of what is an |
| 1:33.0 | essential oil. So to start, can you tell us what is the basic definition of an essential oil? |
| 1:38.9 | You know, the funny answer to that is that it really depends on who or what organization you're asking to define it. |
| 1:46.8 | But the basic definition of an essential oil is a highly aromatic, volatile, and concentrated |
| 1:52.5 | plant extract, which are most commonly extracted by steam distillation, hydro distillation, or |
| 1:59.2 | mechanical extraction, like cold pressing. So anything extracted by a solvent |
| 2:04.6 | would not technically be an essential oil. Others want to exclude cold pressed essential oils like |
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