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Essential Oils Storage Tips and Guidelines
The volatile, aromatic constituents of essential oils are fragile and can separate if they are exposed to oxygen for prolonged periods. As the below guidelines will reiterate, keep fragrance and flavour oils in dark, glass bottles, sized for the quantity of oil that you have remaining. Oxygen is an enemy to essential oils.
Shelf Life: When stored properly, essential oils have a stable shelf life of 2 years.
The below guidelines will help you maximize the shelf life of all your precious oils:
Store Oils in Amber or Dark Glass Bottles.
Amber glass bottles are ideal for storing all oils, most especially those that are fragile and have a shorter shelf life. Amber glass is the most affordable dark coloured glass.
Keep Bottle Caps Tight.
Oxygen is an enemy to oils. Don't overly tighten your bottle caps as they could potentially break and allow oxygen in, but do always ensure that you keep all bottle caps screwed tightly onto each of your oils.
Store Oils Away from Direct Sunlight And Ideally In a Dark Location.
Direct sunlight and UV rays are especially damaging to all oil types. Repeated exposure to any light source may be damaging to oils as well. Store your bottles in a room that does not receive much, if any direct sunlight. Ideally, store your bottles in a cabinet, container or boxes to protect them from all light sources.
Store Oils In a Dry, Cool Location.
Store your oils in a room that is kept cool and dry.
Refrigeration.
All oils can be refrigerated (not frozen!) if space permits, but it's not necessary for refrigerate stable vegetable oils, fragrance/flavour or essential oils. Vegetable oils can solidify at cold temperatures. The essential oils of Rose Otto, Aniseed, Star Anise and Fennel solidify when refrigerated. It is best to allow refrigerated oils to warm up to room temperature on your countertop for a few hours prior to using them.
Maintain the Integrity of Your Oils.
Don't allow unsterilized items like your fingers, cotton balls or other items to come into direct contact with the oils you are storing. Instead, pour off the quantity that you need or measure it into a container and then work with that, leaving the integrity of the remaining oil intact.
Other Important Tips:
Remember That Oils are Flammable.
Essential oils, fragrance oils and flavour oils are flammable and should be kept away from hazardous situations.
Keep Oils Away from Children
Essential oils, flavour oils, fragrance oils and some vegetable oils can smell especially delicious to curious children. Keep all oils, even vegetable oils, out of the reach of children.
Have your products been tested on animals?
Absolutely not! All our aromatherapy products contain only vegetable derived ingredients, we will never use any animal ingredients.
Why is quality so important with essential oils?
It is vital that only the very finest quality pure essential oils are used at all times. Cheaper, inferior quality essential oils deliver unpredictable results meaning ultimately you will have wasted your precious money, rather than saving any. At best nothing at all may have an allergic reaction to the oil and experience skin irritation, sensitisation, or other side effects.
This is typically because the essential oil has been adulterated with a synthetic chemical component, or perhaps because it is entirely synthetic. Unscrupulous traders and dealers will often 'stretch' expensive oils by adding cheap synthetics to them to make the product more profitable for themselves. This can cause problems for unsuspecting customers who then attempt to use these oils in aromatherapy - sometimes with disastrous results. Many people are allergic to synthetic compounds, hence the move to 'fragrance-free' cosmetics some time back.
Of course not everyone is sensitive to synthetic or adulterated oils so the problem should not be exaggerated, but it is still unethical and dishonest to sell an adulterated or synthetic oil under the pretence that it is a pure and natural essential oil. After all, you are paying for something that you are not getting. Synthetic or adulterated oils contain little or no therapeutic qualities and generally do not work in aromatherapy.
Always look for labels that state 'Pure Essential Oil', and not a more ambiguous term such as 'Essential Oil' or 'Aromatherapy Oil' which leaves the door open to adulteration, dilution and deception.