Essential oils are extracted from a plant's flower, leaves, roots, fruit, seeds, woody portions, bark and resin. Today there are about three hundred essential oils in use by professionals, but the average person can fulfill all needs with the use of five to ten. However used, these essential oils enter and leave the body with great efficiency, leaving no toxins behind. The sense of smell is one of our earliest developed senses. These oils interact with the cells of your body, and are beneficial to body, mind and spirit.
Fragrance oils are synthetics combined with essential oils, or strictly synthetic.
These oils are for sensory effect only. Like perfumes, they play on memory and mood, but do not have a lasting effect. Fragrance Oils smell nice, Essential Oils make nice. While there are an enormous variety of fragrant, aromatic plants, essential oils are extracted from only about seventy. If properly stored, oils will last and retain their full effectiveness for a year.