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An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile (easily evaporated at normal temperatures) chemical compounds from plants.Essential oils are also known as volatile oils, ethereal oils, aetheroleum, or simply as the oil of the plant from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove.
Cajuput essential oil in clear glass vial. Cajuput oil (also spelled cajeput) is a volatile oil obtained by distillation from the leaves of the myrtaceous trees Melaleuca leucadendra, Melaleuca cajuputi, and probably other Melaleuca species.
Plant oils or vegetable oils are oils derived from plant sources, as opposed to animal fats or petroleum.There are three primary types of plant oil, differing both the means of extracting the relevant parts of the plant, and in the nature of the resulting oil:
Close-up of canola blooms Canola flower Rapeseed oil Canola field, Willamette Valley, Oregon, May 2017. Rapeseed oil is one of the oldest known vegetable oils.There are both edible and industrial forms produced from rapeseed, the seed of several cultivars of the plant family Brassicaceae.
The U.S. Justice Department has launched a probe into UnitedHealth's Medicare billing practices in recent months, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, sending the healthcare conglomerate's ...
Hydnocarpus pentandrus (previously Hydnocarpus wightianus) or chaulmoogra is a medium-sized tree in the family Achariaceae.This dioecious tree grows up to 10m height, in moist deciduous forests of Western Ghats in India.
Formulations that include neem oil have found wide usage as a biopesticide for horticulturists [4] and for organic farming, as it repels a wide variety of insect pests including mealy bugs, beet armyworms, aphids, cabbage worms, thrips, whiteflies, mites, fungus gnats, beetles, moth larvae, mushroom flies, leaf miners, caterpillars, locusts, nematodes and Japanese beetles.
Jojoba (/ h ə ˈ h oʊ b ə / ⓘ; botanical name: Simmondsia chinensis) – also commonly called goat nut, deer nut, pignut, wild hazel, quinine nut, coffeeberry, and gray box bush [2] – is an evergreen, dioecious shrub native to the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.