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Wonder how much of the hype about essential oils can be attributed to the conflation of "essential"-- essence of-- with "essential"-- necessary, important.
Like this essential oil is the essence of mint. It's not particularly essential or useful or anything.
It's incredibly silly because they're literally just for perfumes, even since forever ago, the main reason people used these oils was for smelling nice.
Well some are legitimately psychoactive like lavender oil
I think it has to be a lot of it. They've been the dominant form of woo longer than crystals or homeopathy were, haven't they?
I don't know about that... Extracting essential oils is sounds alot harder than picking up a rock and saying it's magical.
Ah but that gives an illusion of rigor. Surely people wouldn't go through all the effort for nothing, right?