Essential Oils Essential Oils Essential oils are concentrated materials extracted from plants. Martin Watt, Essential oils Educator, has graciously shared the following information. Most essential oils are perfectly safe and produce few allergic reactions if they are correctly used with appropriate safety advice.
Many essential oils are in fact used in perfumes and food flavors.
However, when used in commercial products, the volumes of the concentrated oils used are extremely low. Completely different safety aspects occur if those same oils are applied to the skin neat, or in some cases even if greatly diluted. Below are some essential oils that are NOT recommended for home or professional use in any kind of skin application including in the bath. Most of these are not easy to find, but you may occasionally see them. F.C.F or bergaptene free bergamot is processed to make it completely safe.