Pure Natural Essential Oils and Absolutes produced in France

We sell only 100 % pure natural essential oils and absolutes. Products in the list are available in Bulk (starting from 8 oz) only. If you would like to place an order on one of the products below, please send your inquire to info@pureessentialoils.com

Absolutes are extracted from a concrete using pure alcohol or liquid carbon dioxide. Absolutes are highly concentrated, generally thick liquids. Some are solid or semi solid. The carbon dioxide method of extraction is preferred for therapeutic absolutes, as even after evaporation some absolutes still retain traces of alcohol. Solvent extraction provides a means of obtaining a higher volatile yield from the plant or, in some cases, a product that cannot be obtained by other extraction processes, e.g. Jasmin or Carnation (with the potential current exception of hypercritical CO2 extraction which remains, in many cases, a very expensive process). In this process, the plants are immersed in the solvent and the 'separation' is performed chemically, employing distillation under special temperatures which condense the oil but not the solvents.

     Alternatively, the absolute is obtained from the CONCRETE (which is itself derived from soaking the plant material in hexane). The concrete mixture is then concentrated (double-distilled) and further diluted in alcohol or double-filtered to arrive at the absolute, in which the majority of plant waxes and solvent residues are eliminated.