Essential Oils In Metro Manila

It's hard to review essential oils. The effect can vary from person to person. The oil itself can vary from bottle to bottle. Essential oil manufacturing is not standardized. Whatever terms they use like "pure", "therapeutic", or "organic", that cannot assure the buyers that their problems will be resolved. As the effectiveness of these oils are not proven, this is mainly a review on the packaging.

It's already a gamble in trying out oils, sellers could be more responsible to lessen the risk on the buyer's part. For starters, essential oils have expiration dates. It would be helpful for the buyer to know the expiration date. If the expiration date is not determined (since oils are not standardized), sellers could indicate the extraction or the manufacture date. Of the oils above, only Foreverstrong has an expiration date indicated on the label.

Plants have different species. In the photo above, cinnamon, frankincense and chamomile oils can have a number of variants. Giga's chamomile essential oil has no indication if it is Roman or German. (Each have their own set of benefits.) In general, Giga does not indicate the name of the plant used in extraction of the essential oil. I hope Giga will be more informative for the buyer's sake.

Some oils are very strong and are not very versatile, like cinnamon essential oil. I may have made a mistake in buying a 15ml bottle. It might take me 5 years to empty it. I bet it will be expired by that time. A 5ml bottle would have been more reasonable. Sellers should offer smaller bottles.

It would also be nice to have a sticker label on the caps. This will make it easier to identify the oil without lifting the bottle, especially if they are stored in a box.

(The essential oils pictured above are from Sesou, Shopee and Lazada. Giga also have their own stores in selected malls in Metro Manila.)

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