Yes, we use essential oils in many of our ECOS products! Essential oils are plant oils with a wide range of properties and scents. These oils can come from leaves, roots, peels, bark or flowers. To make an essential oil, plant components are steam distilled or cold pressed to extract the oils. They can also be chemically extracted, but we only use non-chemically extracted essential oils. Essential oils can be organic if they come from organic plants, but not all essential oils are organic. We use a blend of both. Essential oils have a variety of wonderful aromatherapy attributes. Lavender is said to be naturally calming, and lemon can be uplifting. Parsley fights bad odors. However, essential oils can also be irritants. Many people have allergies to specific essential oils.
A natural fragrance, on the other hand, is a mixture of oils and chemicals that are naturally derived or sourced. Not all the ingredients contained in the mixture are essential oils. This creates all kinds of great fragrance opportunities. While most natural fragrances contain at least some of the plant scent they’re creating, some have none at all. For example, our almond natural fragrance is almost entirely made of natural benzaldehyde, which is made from the pits of cherries. Natural fragrances have other great benefits, like enabling us to remove irritants.