How our oils are made

At Vcura.pt, We are proud to offer products that are 100% bio, natural, and organic. Our commitment to quality and purity is unmatched, as our supplier carefully sources the finest ingredients to create products that are not only effective but also environmentally friendly..

Definitions:

Scientific aromatherapy:

It is the use of essential oils, biochemistry, and botanically defined, to treat or prevent conditions and pathologies through the olfactory, cutaneous, or oral route, among others.

HE based on clinical experience and evidence scientific.

Scientific aromatherapy is a branch of phytotherapy, the therapeutics that uses medicinal plants to prevent or treat diseases.

Essence:

It is the natural secretion responsible for the odor of aromatic plants and trees, which can be found on leaves, bark, or other part of the plant. It is estimated that only approximately 10% of the plants are aromatic.

Essential oil

An essential oil is a substance pure and natural aromatic obtained generally by distillation

steam stream from the plant part aromatic with secreting glands essence, be it the flowers, the leaves, the roots, fruits…

They are very complex, volatile mixtures and composed of a large number of terpene molecules. That is, the oil essential is the result of the extraction of the essence of the plant.

Obtaining essential oils:

Generally, it is obtained by a procedure called steam distillation, which consists of the following phases:

1. Boiler water heating: the steam generated by the boiling of water expands towards the entrance of the alembic, and temperature and pressure increase to help steam water to pass through the plant matter.
2. Drag of molecules: steam of water drags the molecules’ volatile aromatics of the plant until the cooling coil.
3. Cooling: at this point, the temperature is in such a way that water vapor, enriched with molecules aromatic, condenses, that is, goes to the liquid state.
4. Decantation: this liquid has 2 phases, which are separated by decantation, due to differences in densities. The essential oil remains at the top. density generally less than 1, and at the bottom is the hydrolat, containing the water-soluble fraction of the plant.