Exploring Essential Oils, by Cole L. Woolley, PhD

Learn the basic chemistry behind essential oils, how plants use and store essential oils, how essential oils are collected from plants, the basics of steam and hydro-distillation, and different ways to diffuse essential oils.

Topics:

• 106 examples of essential oil molecules.
• 155 words for an essential oil vocabulary.
• 64 unique illustrations, graphs and diagrams.
• 58 learning challenges.

Purpose: Education. (Learn more about the difference between Marketing and Education materials.)

Publication: 2017.

Pages: 227.

Binding: Softcover.

Size: 6" x 9".

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cole L. Woolley, PhD, is an expert at simplifying technical concepts about essential oils. He began analyzing essential oils while completing his doctoral degree in chemistry at Brigham Young University. He has traveled the world as a scientist, an inventor, a businessman, a writer, a product developer, a marketer, and a speaker. In his spare time he enjoys activities with his family, researching family history, trail running in the mountains of Utah, gardening, botany, sports, travel, cultures, and classical art and music.

Introduction: What You Need to Know About Essential Oils

Chapter 1: Essential Oils Are

Chapter 2: Plants Grow

Chapter 3: Plants Produce and Store Essential Oils

Chapter 4: Plants Use Essential Oils

Chapter 5: Plants Are Intelligent

Chapter 6: Monoterpene Molecules

Chapter 7: Oxygenated Monoterpene Molecules

Chapter 8: Sesquiterpene Molecules

Chapter 9: Diterpene Molecules

Chapter 10: Triterpene Molecules

Chapter 11: Tetraterpene Molecules

Chapter 12: Collecting Distilled Essential Oils

Chapter 13: Collecting Cold-pressed Citrus Oils

Chapter 14: Diffusing Essential Oils with Active Diffusers

Chapter 15: Diffusing Essential Oils with Passive Diffusers

Chapter 16: How Aromas Change after Applying Essential Oils

Chapter 17: Share Your Experience