Pursue what`s Pure - Formele de alterare a uleiurilor esențiale

<<0>> hello everyone i'm dr prabhu satel

<<3>> working as chief scientific officer for

<<6>> aromatic plant research center

<<9>> i've been involved on essential research

<<11>> since

<<12>> 10 years and today i'm going to talk

<<14>> about my past experience on essential

<<17>> oil analysis

<<18>> what i have seen unfortunately as the

<<20>> demand for

<<22>> essential oils has increased the

<<24>> incentives for dishonest

<<26>> people to cut corner with inferior

<<29>> product has also

<<30>> increased when consumers use these

<<34>> inferior products their perception of

<<37>> essential oils and their efficacy

<<40>> suffers

<<41>> before doterra there was no industry

<<43>> standard

<<44>> on essential oils i have been

<<47>> researching

<<48>> essential oil adulteration since more

<<51>> than 10 years

<<53>> today i will share my data and

<<55>> experiences

<<56>> i hope you will like this before

<<59>> going through this presentation i would

<<61>> like to define

<<62>> adulteration adulteration can be defined

<<65>> as a process

<<67>> by which quality or nature of a given

<<69>> oil is

<<70>> reduced through addition of our foreign

<<73>> or inferior

<<74>> substances like for example orange oil

<<78>> yuzu and grapefruit oils are 99

<<82>> similar oils with each other

<<85>> but they have a huge price difference 20

<<88>> to

<<89>> 100 times and they are easy to mix as

<<92>> well

<<93>> certainly there is a huge aroma

<<96>> difference

<<97>> between yuzu orange and grapefruit oils

<<100>> mixing of lavending in lavender a mixing

<<103>> of geranium in rose oils etc etc

<<108>> how many types of essential oils are

<<111>> available in market

<<113>> on the daily basis i analyzed several

<<115>> companies oils

<<117>> and found following types of oils pure

<<121>> and natural essential oils are one of

<<123>> the most

<<125>> expensive commodities the price of

<<127>> commercial essential oil

<<129>> such as aggro road can cost more than

<<133>> 50 000 per kg so to make higher profit

<<137>> people all the time try to develop some

<<140>> advanced method

<<141>> on adulteration so that they can make

<<143>> more profit

<<145>> there are basically five types of

<<147>> essential oils

<<148>> sold as 100 pure natural organic

<<152>> essential oils

<<154>> and they are aroma enhanced essential

<<157>> oil

<<158>> some synthetic fragrance compounds are

<<160>> added in essential oil

<<162>> cheap essential oil mislabeled essential

<<165>> oil

<<167>> bitter orange oil is sold as grapefruit

<<169>> oils lemonade is sold as lavender

<<172>> condiment is sold as peppermint

<<175>> synthetically derived essential oil

<<178>> natural compounds are not only found in

<<180>> plant

<<181>> they can come from chemical processes

<<183>> too some oils were found to contain

<<186>> added nature identical synthetic

<<189>> molecule

<<190>> some companies oils had heavier

<<193>> percentages of the career oil

<<197>> on my market survey i have found in

<<199>> every more than 80 percent of commercial

<<203>> commercially sold essential oils are

<<205>> adulted by any means

<<209>> adulteration can happen in all possible

<<211>> points

<<213>> some distiller starts distilling

<<215>> essential oils with this spray of aroma

<<218>> chemicals

<<219>> so that they can increase the oil yield

<<221>> percentages

<<222>> some do also eat carrier oils in the

<<225>> production site

<<226>> but this type of adulteration happens in

<<228>> minimum quantity

<<230>> the price of essential oil remains same

<<233>> even though

<<234>> it comes from a long cena broker so what

<<236>> is stabilizing the price

<<238>> you will get the same price as the

<<241>> production price

<<242>> its adulteration

<<246>> and there that's that's the magic of you

<<247>> know establishing the price

<<249>> so lesser the traders more the chance

<<252>> your oils to be pure least likely

<<255>> happens with retailer labor

<<256>> to make more profit they were already

<<260>> cheated by their supplier because they

<<262>> are buying oils in cheaper price

<<264>> till now i have analyzed more than 50

<<266>> 000

<<268>> essential oils samples from various

<<270>> countries

<<271>> producers distillers and retailers

<<275>> here is a summary of few data from my

<<277>> past analysis

<<280>> those data are obtained from the sellers

<<281>> claiming their oils to be 100 pure

<<284>> and natural essential oil i have not

<<287>> covered all the analysis

<<289>> data points may not be sufficient for

<<291>> some countries however data are not

<<294>> encouraging to me i carried out

<<297>> lavender essential oil adulteration

<<299>> several times

<<301>> back in 2017 19 and 21.

<<304>> all three times carried market surveys

<<306>> sold me more than 80 percent

<<309>> commercially sold lavender oil is

<<311>> altered

<<312>> you can find those in published articles

<<316>> we also did more than 15 popular brand

<<318>> of essential oil from

<<319>> europe market they also had high

<<322>> quantities of

<<323>> adulteration pure essentials are

<<328>> way expensive since they are produced in

<<330>> low quantities

<<333>> with expensive herb material if you are

<<335>> hunting for

<<336>> cheaper essential oil he may get screwed

<<338>> in adulterated

<<340>> essential oil people like to smell

<<342>> synthetic fragrances

<<344>> understanding human psychology

<<346>> adulterated manipulate aroma

<<349>> by blending with fragrant chemicals

<<352>> there is no strict regulation by

<<354>> government body on federal level

<<356>> adulteration detection is not easy it

<<359>> needs lots of expertise and experience

<<362>> essential oil being a natural products

<<364>> chemistry keeps changing on

<<366>> to deliver consistency to the customer

<<369>> sometimes adulteration has to happen but

<<372>> most of the adulteration happens for

<<374>> economic motive in market most of the

<<377>> sellers claim their oils

<<378>> by gcms tested

<<382>> 100 pure and natural essential oil

<<385>> so and so on sometimes they try to sell

<<388>> cheaper

<<389>> essential oil in the name of expensive

<<391>> essential oil

<<392>> such as boswellia cirrata is sold as

<<396>> frankincense

<<397>> pestilencerata is an indian frankincense

<<400>> and has low price

<<402>> yes it is also frankincense but they

<<404>> don't clearly mention

<<406>> the botanical name in the bottle

<<408>> cinnamon oil

<<411>> for cassia since they say the same zen

<<414>> as cinnamon

<<415>> and their name is miss utilized to take

<<418>> advantages

<<419>> cinnamon bark is way expensive over leaf

<<422>> they do not clearly mention in the label

<<425>> plant parts

<<426>> once i bought cinnamon oil considering

<<428>> bark

<<429>> it turned out to be leaf chemistry and

<<432>> therabatic efficacies

<<434>> bark versus leaf is way different

<<438>> another example is globe bird oil is way

<<441>> expensive than

<<442>> leaf and stem so

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<<445>> do not fall on globe world or

<<448>> before buying oil try to understand

<<450>> which plant part was used to make the

<<452>> oil

<<453>> it makes a lot of sense in benefits too

<<457>> uh like spike lavender lavendin

<<460>> are also sold as lavender but the true

<<463>> lavender is lavandula angustifolia

<<465>> which is way different therapeutic

<<468>> quality over them

<<471>> similarly peppermint corn mint

<<473>> experiment they are not only mint

<<475>> so cheaper mint is sold as expensive by

<<478>> not

<<479>> mentioning exact botanical name

<<482>> roars uranium oil is not roswell kananga

<<485>> is sold as ylang

<<486>> oil because they say the same botanical

<<488>> name and they are differentiated by

<<491>> their sub species only

<<494>> there are several level traps so every

<<497>> time when you buy oil make sure

<<499>> you are buying right oils of right

<<501>> botanical name

<<502>> correct plant part used

<<506>> know the distillation process country of

<<508>> origin

<<509>> and check the gcms reports

<<512>> and i am showing you some market example

<<516>> i bought a sandalwood essential oil from

<<518>> a four and a half

<<519>> you know close to five rated best

<<521>> sellers in amazon

<<523>> with more than 63 000 reviews

<<526>> and found that it was completely fake

<<530>> sandalwood essential oil 20

<<534>> per bottle of sandalwood which is kind

<<536>> of impossible

<<538>> they claim their product to be 100 pure

<<540>> and natural

<<541>> essential oil however the oils aroma

<<544>> was like a sandalwood aroma you can be

<<546>> easily duped

<<548>> if you are not experienced

<<551>> the aroma of sandalwood was caused by

<<553>> synthetic sandalwood fragrances

<<555>> they are way cheaper than true

<<557>> sandalwood

<<559>> there were no sandalwood components

<<561>> present in this sandalwood

<<562>> essentially you can see the gcms report

<<565>> so rating and claims are not always

<<569>> reliable

<<570>> tools for quality assessment

<<576>> you ever heard blueberry essential oil

<<579>> have you ever used there is nothing like

<<582>> blueberry essential oil in this universe

<<585>> when i saw this in amazon i ordered and

<<588>> tested

<<589>> it seems to be synthetic fragrances only

<<592>> but it was claimed to be hundred percent

<<594>> pure organic plant

<<596>> essential oil as you see in the picture

<<601>> frausulent products innocent consumers

<<604>> have been ripped up no one is taking

<<606>> responsibility for this

<<609>> dishonesty nowadays

<<612>> essential oil is available almost in in

<<615>> every store

<<616>> and surprises me how can they do quality

<<619>> control

<<620>> qc is the toughest part of essential oil

<<622>> trade

<<624>> i have sample collection hobby for

<<627>> testing alteration technique

<<629>> supermarket essential oil samples are

<<631>> more than

<<632>> 80 percent adulterated as with online

<<638>> and here is one bergamot sample i bought

<<641>> in

<<641>> whole food store and

<<644>> probably you know bergamot essentially

<<646>> is sold more than 12 times

<<648>> of actual production since bergamot

<<652>> farming is done

<<653>> just for essential oil production not

<<656>> much

<<656>> use of juices or byproducts like with

<<659>> other citrus product

<<661>> and bergamot is kind of king of the

<<663>> essential oil

<<664>> because it has properties of lavender

<<667>> lemon

<<668>> lime grapefruit all other different

<<671>> citrus oil

<<672>> i consider this might be one of the best

<<674>> oil and is in high demand

<<677>> on analyzing bergamot oil from whole

<<679>> food store

<<681>> some questions came up in my mind you

<<684>> can see the dcms report

<<686>> and you can see it was passing iso

<<688>> standard and it will pass

<<690>> chirality test and even c14 testing

<<693>> on the gcms test you can see yellow

<<695>> highlighted components

<<697>> such as pleniolicity a b c

<<700>> and d and linoleum oxide acetate c is

<<703>> transparent those are considered

<<705>> synthetic marker of

<<706>> linale acetate in bergamot essential oil

<<712>> and that clearly indicates linale

<<713>> acetate has been boosted on this

<<715>> bergamot sample

<<717>> this is one of the example of smart

<<720>> alteration

<<721>> ordinary lab and chemist will fail on

<<723>> identifying this type of sophisticated

<<726>> adulteration there are several natural

<<728>> claims cosmetic products

<<730>> out there in market and i tested them

<<733>> too

<<734>> none of them were my kind of more than

<<736>> 95 percent of them are not

<<738>> natural pure as was mentioned in the

<<742>> label

<<744>> they use synthetic harmful fragrances it

<<746>> can cause

<<748>> you know adverse effect rather any

<<750>> beneficial effect when you use product

<<751>> like this

<<753>> customer awareness is the most effective

<<756>> way to reject harmful synthetic

<<758>> fragrances

<<761>> there are samples these are samples i

<<764>> analyzed from india market none of them

<<767>> were pure

<<769>> absolutely fake nothing closer even to

<<772>> the you know real oils chemistry

<<775>> i'm surprised where is ethics to

<<777>> understand uses

<<778>> chemistry and safety we can follow those

<<781>> books you know they are very

<<783>> useful books

<<786>> market survey i did on birds essential

<<789>> oil

<<790>> out of all those analyzed birdswell none

<<793>> of them were true birds

<<795>> essential oil and we are publishing

<<796>> paper on this

<<798>> 70 percent of those oils were synthetic

<<801>> and rest of them were winter green or

<<804>> winter green mixed with synthetic methyl

<<806>> salicylate

<<808>> conclusion of this market research was

<<811>> there is no

<<812>> so called birds oil exist in the market

<<817>> most of the alteration is motivated for

<<820>> financial gain

<<823>> it has some serious consequences

<<826>> toxicity essentially used in

<<828>> aromatherapy

<<830>> sometimes adulterer oils contain toxic

<<832>> chemical that can have

<<833>> adverse effect on human health unfair

<<836>> competition the price difference of

<<839>> synthetic oil

<<840>> and natural oil production hues

<<843>> being the lack of awareness people are

<<845>> comparing the price of natural and

<<847>> synthetic and

<<848>> attracted to our synthetic oil because

<<850>> they smell great

<<852>> likewise there is unfair competition

<<854>> brought up by adulterated oil

<<857>> and it will impact on communities

<<858>> economy several poor farmers and their

<<861>> economies are dependent upon production

<<863>> of pure and natural essential oil

<<866>> if they have to drop their essential

<<868>> price to mess with synthetic

<<870>> market they are never going to get fair

<<873>> ways

<<874>> so this will impact on communities or

<<876>> the you know farmers economy

<<879>> as well as it will lower therapeutic

<<881>> values

<<882>> naturopathy is turning out to be

<<884>> syntheopathy

<<885>> so definitely it will not give the same

<<887>> benefit as

<<888>> natural is giving i

<<891>> imagine if this trends of adulteration

<<894>> remains

<<895>> continued on day for finding a pure

<<898>> and natural oils we need to visit to

<<901>> museums or it will be only in the story

<<906>> there is a lack of government regulation

<<908>> and proper analytical techniques

<<910>> that's the reason all adolescent

<<912>> adulteration is getting rampant

<<914>> what is the health impact of

<<915>> adulteration

<<918>> unexpected biological activities are

<<920>> shown by

<<921>> adulterated oils oil contains chiral

<<924>> molecules they exist in two form d

<<926>> and l or rnds as for example thalidomide

<<930>> medicines for pregnant humans durr

<<934>> reduces morning sickness but if yellow

<<937>> aureus is used

<<938>> it also it can also go it was causing

<<941>> birth defect

<<942>> that's why this medicine was banned

<<944>> because you know its counterpart

<<946>> was not doing the work

<<949>> molecule is the same but their peer can

<<950>> cause severe birth defects on human

<<953>> health

<<954>> similar things can happen with essential

<<956>> oil molecules like for d

<<957>> limonene can increase systolic blood

<<959>> pressure whereas yellow limonene only

<<961>> affects in alertness

<<963>> and every you know and once they do

<<965>> adulteration they

<<966>> put both enantiomer d and dl together

<<970>> and use a wrong enantiomer

<<973>> can cause different biological activity

<<977>> essential oil community is always

<<979>> challenged by

<<980>> four different and most common kind of

<<983>> adulteration

<<984>> synthetic or man-made they can be either

<<988>> derived from natural precursor

<<990>> or petrochemical based precursor by

<<992>> using various reagents

<<994>> naturally isolate compounds is converted

<<997>> into another aeroma chemical

<<999>> which is used as fillers in essential

<<1001>> oil

<<1002>> this is one of the analytically

<<1004>> challenging types of adulteration

<<1006>> and it is considered as one of the

<<1007>> sophisticated adulteration technique

<<1010>> like for example naturally offering

<<1012>> limonine from orange oil

<<1014>> can get converted to other aroma

<<1016>> chemicals such as turbine in furrow

<<1019>> and other courier oils

<<1022>> or cooking oil edison type of

<<1024>> adulteration is the

<<1026>> dumbest type of adulteration

<<1029>> adding non-volatile impurity which even

<<1031>> barely shows up

<<1032>> in the gcms testing another one is

<<1036>> essential component isolated or fraction

<<1040>> fractionally isolated component such as

<<1042>> usinol

<<1043>> one it's in your limonene or other will

<<1046>> be added to alternate

<<1048>> essential oil it is quite most

<<1050>> challenging type of adulteration from

<<1052>> analytical perspective

<<1055>> most sophisticated out of all is the

<<1057>> addition of similar oil such as

<<1059>> lavendin into lavender cone mint and

<<1062>> peppermint

<<1064>> orange into in a grapefruit etc since

<<1067>> they have

<<1068>> similar chemical profile because they

<<1070>> are

<<1071>> economical profitable and chemically

<<1074>> similar to

<<1076>> adulteration is getting advanced day by

<<1078>> day and perpetrator find

<<1080>> some new and advanced ways of

<<1084>> adulteration so to overcome all the

<<1086>> instrumental limitation

<<1088>> people use natural isolate or naturally

<<1090>> derived synthetic molecule

<<1092>> since it can pass all available testing

<<1094>> method

<<1096>> i have seen several companies invest

<<1097>> more time on their adult trading

<<1099>> technique

<<1101>> where they can make more money rather

<<1103>> investing farms

<<1104>> farmers and in agriculture

<<1108>> our technique for adulteration detection

<<1110>> is one of the unique technique

<<1111>> which is called marker based technique

<<1114>> or altered oils all the time has this

<<1116>> type of testing

<<1117>> not much research work has been done on

<<1120>> this

<<1120>> area that's why

<<1124>> i decided to get my doctoral research on

<<1127>> marker-based

<<1128>> essential oil adulteration

<<1132>> all of the adulteration detection

<<1134>> techniques have several limitations

<<1138>> gcms is one of the best method of

<<1142>> essential oil analysis if information

<<1145>> obtained from gcms

<<1147>> is properly interpreted with all

<<1149>> experienced chemist

<<1151>> adulteration detection could not be a

<<1152>> nightmare

<<1154>> most of the time people ask me what is

<<1156>> the difference between your lab and

<<1158>> their lab they do have the same

<<1159>> instrument

<<1160>> as you have we do not only have

<<1163>> cutting-edge instrument

<<1165>> but also have the advanced adulteration

<<1167>> detection tools

<<1168>> i have developed during my last 10 years

<<1172>> time period

<<1173>> my library of essential oil analysis is

<<1176>> the world's

<<1177>> probably largest library of essential

<<1179>> analysis

<<1180>> essential oil it contains more than 14

<<1183>> 000

<<1184>> essential oil components

<<1187>> we carefully observed synthetic marker

<<1189>> and biomarkers

<<1191>> during our analysis for each and every

<<1193>> batch of

<<1194>> doterra essential oil and some people

<<1197>> say the oil is iso standard

<<1200>> does iso or any standard matter

<<1205>> iso standard is all the time encouraging

<<1208>> people to adulterate

<<1209>> as you saw the example of bergamot

<<1211>> essential oil from whole foods

<<1214>> probably they were trying to make iss

<<1215>> standard and it was meeting eyes so even

<<1217>> though it was not pure

<<1219>> i talk a lot about marker

<<1222>> on my previous slides let me explain

<<1226>> what are they

<<1228>> particularly i classify marker into two

<<1230>> categories

<<1231>> biomarkers and synthetic marker

<<1234>> biomarkers are unique characteristics

<<1236>> molecule

<<1237>> of the individual oil which is

<<1239>> commercially unavailable

<<1240>> to adulterate oils if some addition is

<<1243>> happened

<<1244>> by a marker of unrelated oil appears or

<<1246>> biomarkers of the

<<1248>> adulterated oil disappears like for

<<1250>> example

<<1251>> if corn meat oil is

<<1255>> added in peppermint oil you will see low

<<1257>> burner floral low carbohydrate d

<<1259>> low methyl fluoride on peppermint corn

<<1261>> mint is a cheaper oil

<<1264>> oils have similar chemistry to

<<1266>> peppermint oil

<<1267>> but cornmeal does not have those

<<1269>> molecules

<<1272>> lowering of those molecule or

<<1273>> disappearance of those molecules

<<1276>> in any peppermint oil definitely

<<1277>> indicates adulteration

<<1279>> in peppermint oil so vertebral

<<1282>> fluorosarmactin d

<<1283>> and menthopiran are biomarker peppermint

<<1286>> essential oil the impurities of the

<<1290>> synthetic molecules are all

<<1291>> are called synthetic marker the

<<1293>> appearance of synthetic markers

<<1295>> in oils indicate adulteration

<<1298>> with synthetic chemicals like for

<<1299>> example synthetic glynol

<<1301>> if you added in any linoleum containing

<<1304>> oils

<<1304>> you will see the hydroline aloe as a

<<1306>> synthetic marker of the linoleum edison

<<1309>> which you do not see in any pure

<<1311>> essential oil

<<1313>> there are all the time stress quantities

<<1317>> it's all the time tricky to find those

<<1319>> marker we are

<<1321>> we are all the time involved in

<<1322>> discovering those proprietary techniques

<<1326>> and thank you