Essential Oils

The Essential Oils Desk Reference

Doctor's offices all have copies of the Physician's Desk Reference. This huge volume contains information about every known drug and ailment. It lists all the pharmaceuticals and their interactions. An essential oils desk reference would be just as comprehensive. The essential oils desk reference will typically include three major elements. First, there should be some listing or catalogue of the types of oils available, and for each of these, describe the origins and uses of them. Secondly, it should provide information on how the particular oil is manufactured (whether it is distilled or expressed) and what the products are that one should look for. Finally, the essential oils desk reference should provide a list of approved manufacturers and range of prices.

The Catalogue Of Essential Oils

Essential oils are obtained from a variety of plants, herbs, flowers, trees, and other plants. The essential oils desk reference should provide a mechanism that allows the reader to find information on given oils in several different ways. These cross-references should include the source of the oil. For instance, if you are interested in the possible uses available from the group of trees known as Tea Trees. A cross-reference in the essential oils desk reference should list out which oils are derived from that tree and what uses are typical. It should provide specific information for each particular species of tree.

Perhaps you are interested in oils that might be good to use as a topical antibacterial, or perhaps you need an odor remover for the home. All of these should be ways for referring to an essential oil in the essential oils desk reference. Indeed there are many other indexes one could provide. Perhaps, therefore, the essential oils desk reference is best provided as an electronic book or module or a database that you can load onto your computer for easy reference.

There are also derivative forms of essential oils that may be of interest to the consumer. Sometimes multiple oils are combined or they are provided in a suspended form for use as a home or body spray. The multiple facets of each oil further makes the case for providing the catalogue in an electronic format that you can query and sort as you need to.

Manufacturers Of Essential Oils

Manufacturers of essential oils mostly use a variety of a steam distillation process. The essential oils desk reference should describe each manufacturer's base process and provide critique based on quality and purity of products. The manufacturing processes for given oils may vary slightly depending on the characteristics of oil produced and to the degree that oil is soluble in water or other solvents.

The cataloguing of the products is perhaps another place where an electronic cross-reference may be beneficial. The best essential oils desk reference might, therefore, consist of two components. The first is the traditional book with general information and the second is a disk containing the essential oil catalogue and manufacturers lists.

While we wait for an essential oil desk reference, you can use the internet as a research tool to find your essential oil. You can use search engines to enter the criteria you are looking for. For example, if you are looking for an antifungal to use topically, you could enter "essential oil antifungal topical" into a search engine to find a list of oils. If you want a pure version of this oil, then add then term "therapeutic" to the search.