Hazardous Essential Oils

Are there some hazardous essential oils that are just so dangerous they should be banned? Some aromatherapy experts think so.

For most people, the volatile organic extracts we call essential oils are little more than a natural, low-chemical way to scent our homes and, perhaps, encourage healing in the body.

But some of these oils have such potentially serious side effects that many in the aromatherapy field would like to see the sale of these oils severely restricted or even banned completely.

How much of this fear is rooted in science and how much is just hysteria resulting from too-oft-repeated myths? Let's see what science says about these potentially dangerous oils. Oils like:

Ajowan
Bitter Almond
Boldo
Buchu
Calamus
Camphor
Thuja
Wintergreen
Wormseed
Wormwood


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