Monday, March 7, 2016

Do not purchase essential oils from Walmart

We wouldn't recommend purchasing essential oils from Walmart.

1) Walmart's cinnamon oil is actually not cinnamon. It's cassia, which is a much cheaper oil. There is also some evidence of the addition of cinnamic aldehyde (i.e., a synthetic).


Because cinnamon bark is such a hot topic lately, in the first of this latest Wal-Mart series we decided to start with...
Posted by Essential Oil University on Thursday, 3 March 2016


2) Walmart's lavender oil is actually not lavender. It's lavendin, which is a much cheaper oil.

The second in our series of Wal-Mart oils we decided to look at the "Lavender" oil which claims on the packaging to be...
Posted by Essential Oil University on Friday, 4 March 2016
3) Walmart's peppermint oil is actually not peppermint. It's cornmint, which is is a much cheaper oil.

This "Peppermint" oil is the third and final one of the recent Wal-Mart oils that I am going to look at because at some...
Posted by Essential Oil University on Tuesday, March 8, 2016


Be sure that you purchase high quality essential oils from a reputable source.