Andrew Edwin Jenkins > Quotes

“Yes, it takes a lot of plant material to make a drop of oil, but a small drop of oil then contains the full force of the entire plant- of all of those plants. When you have a bottle of rose oil, you have the life force of 5,000 pounds of roses. That’s a lot of plant. And that means a lot of life.”
― Andrew Edwin Jenkins, The Husband's Field Guide: Navigating Your Wife's Essential Oil Habit

“Aromatherapy grade oils are cheaper than therapeutic grade oils. They are watered-down, the essential parts of them are stretched to fill more bottles, and they have added fillers (i.e., fragrances). You can’t ingest them, and the label on the bottle will say so.”
― Andrew Edwin Jenkins, The Husband's Field Guide: Navigating Your Wife's Essential Oil Habit