• It takes 75 lemons to make one 15ml bottle of lemon essential oil and 1 pound of raw peppermint to make one 15 ml of peppermint essential oil.
• 60,000 rose blossoms provide only 1 ounce of of rose oil
• Jasmine flowers must be picked by hand before the sun becomes hot on the very first day that they open, thus making it one of the most expensive oils in the world. It takes 8 million hand-picked blossoms to produce 2.2 pounds of oil!
• Lavender is abundant and 220 pounds of Lavender will provide 7 pounds of oil.
• A Sandalwood tree must be 30 years old and 30 feet high before it can be cut down for distillation.
• Tests have shown that oils reach the heart, thyroid and liver in 3 seconds when inhaled; they were found in the bloodstream in 26 seconds when applied topically. Expulsion of essential oils takes three to six hours in a normal, healthy body.