Study Finds Adulteration in 75% of Commercial Lavender Samples Tested
However, with such popularity and widespread demand for lavender essential oil, quality control and adulteration remain a concern.
- However, with such popularity and widespread demand for lavender essential oil, quality control and adulteration remain a concern.
- The established authentic lavender profiles were then compared against commercially available lavender samples purchased from various online retailers and grocery stores.
- While labels on the sampled products declared their product was “pure lavender essential oil,” “100% pure lavender oil,” “true lavender,” or “organic lavender,” 75 percent of the tested samples turned out to be adulterated.
- Young Living’s Lavender essential oil originates in Southern France, where the company has the only American-owned lavender farm in the country – the Simiane-la-Rotonde Lavender Farm and Distillery in Provence.