1.What are essential oils?
Essential oils are highly concentrated aromatic substances extracted from natural plants.This substance comes from the flowers, leaves, roots and other parts of the plant.Essential oils can be extracted by distillation, liposuction, cold pressing, solvent extraction, carbon dioxide extraction.
2.Why do plants produce essential oils?
①Protect against the outside world
In humid environments, essential oils can prevent pathogens from invading plants and effectively repel animals.When a plant is injured, essential oils can help the damaged area heal faster.
Essential oils are needed for plant photosynthesis to avoid damage caused by ultraviolet and radioactive substances. In addition, in the event of a deep forest fire, the volatility of the essential oil can keep the fire burning upward, protecting the seeds and roots, and allowing the plant to regenerate after the fire dies down.
②Help plants grow
Plant growth depends on the action of hormones, and the amount of hormones is too much and too small will cause harm to plants.Essential oils, as communication substances, can not only assist hormones in transmitting information, but also regulate hormone balance.Because of its small molecule characteristics, it can penetrate plant tissues, accelerate metabolism, and promote oxygen and nutrient transport.
3.Source of essential oil: balsam gland
In nature, only a small percentage of plants can produce essential oils, and this part of the plant contains "balsam glands".
Odor is a medium through which plants transmit information.The balsam glands of plants are the storerooms that help plants preserve their smells.When plants are irritated, balsam glands secrete odors to ward off enemies and send messages to surrounding plants.
Each plant has a different distribution of balsam glands, so the location of the extraction of essential oil is also different, mainly distributed in the petals, roots, leaves or trunk.
4.Having essential oils does not mean that plants can be used
The essential condition for plants to produce essential oils is to have balsam glands, but the ability to extract essential oils does not mean that they can be used in perfumes, for the following reasons:
①The essential oil content in vegetables, fruits and vegetables is too small
The scents of vegetables, fruits and vegetables in perfumes are mostly artificially simulated. Fruits often contain a lot of water, the essential oil content is generally very low, only in the short maturity period to decompose the aromatic substances, and the retention time is not long, easy to oxidize with the decay of the fruit, the essential oil content in vegetables is very small, completely unable to extract.
②The quantity is small and the price is high, and the cost is expensive
Although some plants can extract essential oils, the oil content is not high, and the cost of extracting essential oils is too high.
③Some natural essential oils are harmful to human health
Some plants are naturally toxic, or have cancer risks, and although they smell attractive, they are harmful to the human body.
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