Cloned Lavender
True lavender (lavande vraie) is a variety named Lavandula angustifolia, and it is all about…
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Essential Oils
April 2011
French Lavender: Encroaching Synthetics
Years ago, sons had a tendency to follow in their fathers’ footsteps, which was certainly…
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Are You Buying Lavender or Lavandin?
Why then are the farmers switching to lavandin hybrid grosso or super? First of all,…
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Growing Lavender: What Are the Costs?
Now let’s look at the numbers today. Land starts at $5,000 per acre. A 2705…
Read More »February 2011
Part 19: Finding Pure Essential Oils
9. Will the soil composition and location affect the plant that is grown there, thereby…
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Part 18: Finding Pure Essential Oils
Following GC analysis, we run the essential oil through a mass spectrometry instrument (MS) to…
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Part 17: Finding Pure Essential Oils
Other factors can also vary the results of an analysis. If the essential oil sample…
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Part 16: Finding Pure Essential Oils
8. Are all gas chromatograph instruments the same, and will the analysis be the same…
Read More »January 2011
Part 15: Finding Pure Essential Oils
7. Can different distillation practices change the oil quality? Yes! Commercial distilleries push process pressure…
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Gary’s Unwanted “Invader”
By Guest Blogger Mary Young On Saturday, January 15, as I watched Gary coughing so…
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