Citrus essential oil promotes weight loss

          Citrus essential oil promotes weight loss

You can add several drops of citrus essential oil to an air purifier or a fragrance lamp to fill your home with a pleasant smell. Plus, the citrus aroma decreases appetite.

Mix some drops of citrus oil with vegetable oil (flaxseed oil or olive oil), and use as a salad dressing. It’ll help get the toxins out of your body.

How Citrus Oils are Manufactured

While most essential oils are produced via steam distillation, citrus oils are different. The leaves, bark, roots, and seeds aren't the source of the oil – it's the fruit itself! More specifically, the peel of citrus fruit provides the essential oil. If you've ever been sprayed in the eye when peeling an orange, or felt the oily residue on your fingers afterward, you've encountered a citrus essential oil already.

To produce citrus essential oils, the peel is usually cold pressed, extracting the oil without the application of heat or solution, otherwise called “expression.” The peels can be steam distilled or extracted with a solution, though they are less common methods, and the latter is known as an absolute rather than an essential oil and is not used in the same ways. 

A note to remember about citrus oils: we often think of foods with thick peels as less dangerous when grown conventionally because the peel protects the edible part from toxic pesticides. The opposite is true in this case. The peel is in constant contact with sprays, so the concentrated essential oil product would be, as well. Always trust your essential oil provider to bring you toxin and residue free oils!