Safety, toxicity and related issues/ 19.02.24
Advice on the safety issues of using essential oils
Essential oil safety. The known and the unknown. By Martin Watt RISKS It is important for you to appreciate that most essential oils can be hazardous if they are not used correctly. Most essential oils are perfectly safe for the general public, but there are a few with well-documented dangers. Regretfully, many essential oils supplie...
Safety, toxicity and related issues/ 19.02.24
Aromatherapy Undiluted- Safety and Ethics
Aromatherapy Undiluted- Safety and Ethics by Tony Burfield and Sylla Sheppard-Hanger (2005) Modified from an article - A Brief Safety Guidance on Essential Oils for the IFA. Please note that the first version was in a different software format.Some remnants of that may remain, such as a . mark instead of an ' Introduction: In the last...
Safety, toxicity and related issues/ 19.02.24
Photosensitisation - the variables and examples
Factors affecting Photosensitisation and Sensitisation. By Martin Watt Introduction: There are a number of variables which need to be taken into account when considering which essential oils are safe to use on the skin. Obviously the first thing is the RIFM and other figures of maximum recommended volumes of essential oils to be used on the sk...
Safety, toxicity and related issues/ 19.02.24
The Internal use of essential oils
Some thoughts on the controversy over the internal use of essential oils By Martin Watt An advisory document first written for the New Zealand therapists association. This issue of taking essential oils as medicines is a minefield, and I think it best to give an overview of the arguments for and against. THE QUESTION OF ESSENTIAL OIL...
Safety, toxicity and related issues/ 19.02.24
The Internal use of essential oils Internal use - review of a NAHA presidents blog
Taking essential oils as medicines & the new involvement of trade organisations. Issues on internal use. I was staggered to see that Jade Shutes - the recent President of NAHA in the USA - was once again promoting exploring using essential oils as medicinal substances. http://theida.com/essential-oils/the-internal-use-of-essential-oils-an-explo...
Safety, toxicity and related issues/ 19.02.24
The dangers of using 'untested' essential oils
Estimating the Adverse Dermal Effects of Essential Oils by Examining their Chemical Composition By Martin Watt Published in NORA news Dec .1995 vol. 1 issue 2 Yes this is a very old article, but I am using it to show how long ago that I wrote about issues covered in newer articles on this site. Start: This is an extremely arbitrary a...
Marketing issues/ 19.02.24
The dangers of using 'untested' essential oils Blog sites that link to Amazon shops
ESSENTIAL OILS SALES VIA AMAZON.COM & THE INADEQUATE SAFETY WARNINGS OF THE SUPPLIERS By Martin Watt Safety: Amazon say: “The Product Safety Team at Amazon works to protect Amazon customers from risks of injury associated with products offered on Amazon by looking into and taking action on reported safety complaints and incidents”. Yet, w...
Safety, toxicity and related issues/ 19.02.24
Benzoin - warnings on its use
BENZOIN A safe preservative or not? By Martin Watt In 1992 IFRA, the world's leading experts in safety issues of all aromatic extracts, issued new guidelines on the use of Benzoin extracts in cosmetic products. They recommended that only extracts processed by methods which eliminated allergens should be used in cosmetic products. This...
Safety, toxicity and related issues/ 19.02.24
Old lavender oil - the dangers
Old lavender oil may be a problem. By Martin Watt. In Sept 2003 I obtained some papers on aged linalool and lavender oil which are rather alarming. For years I have been advising therapists not to use old citrus peel or pine family oils on the skin. This is because as those oils age with oxygen exposure, they form chemicals which can initi...
Safety, toxicity and related issues/ 19.02.24
Pennyroyal oil - the myths and facts
NATURAL TOXINS IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINES some MYTHS removed © By M. Watt 1994. Revised 2006 First Published by The Aromatic Thymes Vol. 3 No.4 1995. pp22-30 Introduction: A lot of misleading information has been published for many years about commonly occurring "toxins in plant medicines." This has not only occurred in the media, but als...