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Question

My name is Tengku Ismadi from University Technology of Malaysia, and i'm studying in Mechanical Eng.
I have several questions regarding essential oils. This is some literature study for one of my subject. Due to your expertise, I hope you can answer as many questions as you can. The questions are shown below.

For each of the following naturally occurring oils: Citronella ,eucalyptus,cinnamon leaf,nutmeg,clove,rose,jasmine,lavender

a.how easy is it to produce for each of them chemically as compared being extracted from natural sources?

b.how effective the chemically produced ones for each of them compared to the ones extracted naturally(i.e the medicinal/therapeutic/healing qualities).

c.Are there any harmful effects using the chemically produced ones?

d. in the market ,if one does not know the origin of a particular oil, how likely are each of them to be produced chemically as compared it to be the naturally?

e. apart from laboratory tests, are there any other way of distinguishing between the two? (Chemistry,aromatherapy)

Answer 1

Your question is of the differences between synthetic and natural essences. This is well outside the scope of our mission: Homework help

Thanks for considering us. Good luck in your review of the literature. It sounds very interesting.