CHOZEN Essential Oils / The Scenter
Skin Care Products in Cape Town

CHOZEN Essential Oils offers a unique range of indigenous African and selected imported essential oils, suitable for a variety of clinical, medicinal and therapeutic applications. Visit our Facebook Page, The Scenter, at https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Scenter/125502734205675?sk=wall and log onto our eShop at www.chozen.co.za to create your online account today!. We are thrilled to bring you the world famous Paperbark range, including Fragonia Essential Oil (Agonis fragrans), available in South Africa exclusively from The Scenter.

CHOZEN Essential Oils offers a unique range of indigenous African and selected imported essential oils, suitable for a variety of clinical, medicinal and therapeutic applications. We ensure that our selected source plants are always kept true to chemotype, with no cross-type mixing of source materials. Furthermore, CHOZEN Essential Oils are never subjected to any adulteration, stretching or manipulation whatsoever, thus bringing you only the best and highest quality pure essential oils available to discerning practitioners today! Aromatherapy practitioners and enthusiasts need no persuasion with regard to the healing abilities of essential oils. Many people are familiar with using essential oils topically on the skin, in a vaporiser, for inhalation purposes, mixing them with vegetable oils and using them in baths (in a dilution of course!). Complementing the applications already mentioned are internal modes of usage, including oral ingestion and the use of essential oils in suppositories and pessaries. Although well documented and understood within the industry, these methods are not commonly practised by professional aromatherapists in Australia (generally due to inadequate training, expertise and legal constraints). One area in which oils have been found to be highly effective is the treatment of infection. French MD and aromatic medicine specialist Dr Daniel Penoel has used essential oils internally as part of his private practice in France and advocated the benefits of such methods through workshops and seminars around the world for more than 25 years. Long-term over-prescription of penicillin has dramatically lessened that drug’s ability to counteract bacteria, with the prevalence of penicillin-resistant strains in hospitals well reported worldwide. Dr Penoel says it is many of the world’s leading cosmetic companies that are leading research efforts into aromatic plants and molecules, their botanical chemistry and phytotherapy (plant therapy) in general. The governments of both Germany and Belgium are funding research into essential oils. In Belgium, specifically, the government funds university based research, with the results transferred to the phytotherapy industry. Among the researchers is director of pharmacological research, Pierre Franchomme, who is undertaking advanced pharmacological studies with financial backing from Estee Lauder from his base in Romania. For instance, it has now been proven that the phenol molecules not only have strong anti-infectious properties, but interesting anti-inflammatory ones. While there has been some publication of these and other research findings, most companies prefer to keep discoveries in-house due to commercial sensitivities. The human genome aside, it appears that companies’ inability to patent nature means that researchers and those they work for stand to lose any commercial advantage from their discoveries if the results become known to competitors. The pharmaceutical industry the world over has an enormous amount riding on any developments and discoveries concerning anti-bacterials, be they drugs or essential oils. As such, drug companies will no doubt be keeping abreast of essential oil and aromatic plant medicine research outcomes. Along with New Zealand oils, Australian-based essential oils are among those being used in clinical studies and research in Europe. One of the species the Days have successfully planted is Fragonia TM, with research to date showing there are many chemotypes of Agonis fragrans growing naturally, according to Mr Day. Gas chromatograph tests reveal high percentages of alpha-pinene and cineole,constituents beneficial in combating respiratory conditions and treating an array of infections. Those aware of the downside of having the fungus Candida albicans proliferate inside the body will appreciate the promising results having taken place within the UWA lab. Dr Penoel, on the other hand, remains optimistic that essential oils will become recognised and accepted as he expects France will play a major role in advocating its future.