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This is information is from September 2000:

We have access to the majority of suppliers in the world. We are out of Pure Rose Absolute! Simple put Scott found Malathion ( a pesticide) and two phthalates (used to soften plastics) in the best of the samples analyzed, thus rejected them.

Scott Ballard at Kobashi is someone who knows what he is talking about regarding Essential Oils. He has an extensive knowledge of the oils and their chemical components.
He is someone who is very ethical and actually does what he says. Scott spends many hours analyzing a single oil, sometimes for days, using high tech equipment and the help of scientist who are against environmental toxins. He goes beyond just looking for the correct chemo-typical profiles and looks for pesticides, herbicides and phthalates (used to soften plastics) at parts per million. So when you purchase oils from Kobashi you can be assured that they are what they say they are - essential oils - with nothing added or taken away, as the plant after distillation should be. He recently rejected a Rose absolute which is better than the majority of Rose absolutes on the market, because he found Malathion (a pesticide) @<10 parts per million and 2 different phthalates. Most companies don't even look at the major components of an oil.

Scott has placed ethics over money. Kobashi has not just shifted oils, at times is out of oil, even though having access to the majority of suppliers on the planet. In the case of the Rose, after telling another supplier of the contaminants the supplier requested 10kgs. This would have given Kobashi a substantial profit.

Sincerely, Lynda Ballard

We are out of Pure Rose Absolute!

Reason: Last sample from a good source we found .09 percent (4.5ppm with a standard deviation of 30%, due to one point graphing of 100ppm standard: simple terms<10ppm) of Malathion ( a pesticide) and .04 percent of two different phthalates (plasticizers from plastics) and ~5% Ethanol. (used to extract the oil from the concrete of Rose, but should be much lower if properly vacuum extracted.) This is one of the best smelling roses I've smelled in 5 years. We are still searching for the quality we want. When I told this to a supplier of essential oils he said,

"Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:44:41+0100

To: info@kobashi.com
From:
Subject: Dodgy Rose Abs Egypt
Scott, Can you send a sample of the material to me, and if usable can you quote me for 10 kilos .... please!

The sad and unholy truth is the majority of the suppliers of essential oils think it's okay to sell an oil like this or worse.

There's only a few companies in the world who even look at oils at parts per million (.09 is approximately <10ppm in this case: percentages in gc and gc-ms data are not quantitative ppm. A standard of a given chemical at a given ppm must be run.

You start with the area of the peak from the original gc-ms of the Rose oil , in this case the area of the peak of Malathion is 1421304. To find X (the ppm of Malathion in the Rose Oil you must multiply 1421304 times the known standard of Malathion injected into the gc-ms alone, in this case 100ppm, which gives you 142130400. Then divide 142130400 by the area of the peak of the standard, in this case 33438823 , which =4.25ppm).

The more standard ppm solutions of Malathion run the more accurate the ppm found in the Rose oil will be. Such as Running 5ppm, 10ppm, 50ppm, 100ppm,. With more points on the graph your analysis will be all that more accurate. In this case with only one point on the graph we can say there will be an approximate 30% plus or minus deviation from 4.25ppm. So the amount of Malathion in the Rose Oil, which we rejected will fall between 3.2 to 5.5. But to be safe on this Secondary-preliminary test, we can say there is <10ppm of Malathion in this Oil.

The fact is 98% of the suppliers of essential oils don't test their oils at all. The ones that do do a cheap Gc that sees very little. Others do a Gc-ms of only the major chemicals in the oil. Many of the Gc-s and Gc-ms's performed are proformed with limited libraries and knowledge. Most who perform GC-MS rely on the quality match of the library and do not actually look at the individual Ion patterns of each chemical. Even fewer cross reference the data with their own standards library run on the same column and method. The excuse is time and money and knowledge.

What I am saying is a starting point for some. What I am saying is once you have the knowledge and money you must make the time to sell what you say you are selling.

The more you know, the more strict the criteria gets. So many people hide behind their Blinkers, wipe their soul away, trample down the road and use those on their way.

Another problem is down and out greed.
The people with the knowledge and the money who test to see what the chemical perimeters of an oil is so they can stretch an oil with cheap and synthetic look alike chemicals, such as Limonene to add to Bergamot Oil, which should be no more than 42% and normally around 37% .

Last month I rejected a sample Of Bergamot with 70% Limonene. A blatant >30% adulteration

This is why I seldom purchase from the same person and test every essential oil with GC-MS. I refuse to sell any oil that has anything wrong with it , even though I will loose money when I'm without an oil to sell. I could have made very good money if I supplied the 10kgs of Rose absolute mentioned earlier. I know many will have no problem with selling oil like that and it will eventually end up on the market anyway, by some one who doesn't care as much as I do or someone who doesn't have the facilities to test properly.

Someone told me I should buy and sell the 10kgs and give the money to a proper cause, but I do not believe the ends justify the mean.

What is it to gain money if it means selling my soul. I believe it is wrong to sell anything that I would not use myself.

Thank you,

Scott Ballard

PS My criteria is very strict. The more I know the more devout I must be. This is my personal road of impeccability. I believe in all the Great Gurus, such as referred to in Paramahansa Yogananda autobiography, such as Jesus; also of the present and future people who aspire to commune with God. I will not go hungry, God will provide, even if its spirit.

To all those that sell by deception, may the knowledge of an ever providing spirit, a endless universe without lack come into your heart and soul and free you from your fear.

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