plastics that essential oils can be stored in<\/a><\/strong> for relatively long periods of time without these plastics being broken down. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThere is P.E.T., also known as plastic number 1<\/strong>, and then there is HDPE, which is also commonly known as plastic number 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\nP.E.T. plastic is a food-safe, BPA-free plastic<\/strong> that has become one of the most popular plastics to use for food and drink storage. It should then be of little surprise that this is one of the only plastics that can store essential oils with little to no damage being caused to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHDPE is a high-quality plastic that has strong bonds<\/strong> and is not easily broken down by essential oils. This plastic is therefore often used to make the lids that are used on the glass bottles that essential oils are stored in. <\/p>\n\n\n\nHDPE plastic is also the most often used plastic in products that are made to be used with essential oils, such as an air diffuser, to prevent any damage to the product<\/strong>. Any plastic parts that would need to come in to contact with the essential oil in these products will then be<\/strong> made of HDPE plastic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThese two types of plastic are strong enough and stable enough, and they are made of strong enough materials that can be used in the storage of essential oils safely<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nEven though these plastics could hypothetically be used as the bottle itself <\/strong>in which essential oils are kept, they are generally still only used in the lids and smaller mechanisms of the bottle, such as the dripper, as glass is still overall a better material to store your essential oils in<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThis is because there is no risk of breakdown or corrosion of the glass bottle due to the essential oils, making it the safer choice for essential oil storage<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nHowever, if you have made up your mind and you are absolutely set on using a plastic bottle or container to store your essential oils in<\/strong>, there is a way you can do this with a lower risk of the plastic being broken down.<\/p>\n\n\n\nYou can dilute your essential oils using a carrier oil<\/strong>. A carrier oil, or base oil, is an oil that is added to an essential oil in order to dilute it before it is used on your skin, as some essential oils are too strong to add to your skin alone as they may burn or irritate the skin<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nSo a carrier oil, usually made of coconut or vegetable oils, is added to \u201cthin out\u201d the essential oil. You can add a carrier oil to your essential oils in order to store your essential oils in plastic<\/strong>, as the carrier oil will help prevent, or simply just delay, the breaking down of plastic from the essential oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhich Essential Oils Break Down Plastic More Quickly?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Pure essential oils are made up of many components that are highly concentrated and quite strong. Most essential oils are strong enough to break down plastic<\/strong>. However, some oils may break down the plastic faster than other oils.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFor example, Lemon oil has a high acidity level, which means that it will most likely break down the plastic at a much faster<\/strong> rate<\/strong> than a less acidic essential oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNeroli essential oil is in the same boat. Because of the citrus in both the neroli oil (orange citrus) and the lemon oil (lemon citrus), they are both more acidic than other essential oils<\/strong>, such as chamomile oil or lavender oil. <\/p>\n\n\n\nHowever, even though these essential oils are stronger and may break down plastic faster than other essential oils, other essential oils are still strong and will still break down plastic<\/strong> in their own time.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSo essentially, all essential oils will, in time, break down plastic; however, oils that have higher levels of acidity in them often break plastic down far quicker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nConclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Essential oils can and will break down most plastic <\/strong>when they are exposed to it for long periods of time. Stronger, more hardy plastics may take a while longer to be broken down than thin, soft plastics. However, both types of plastic will be broken down by the essential oils they are exposed to eventually<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTo avoid having to deal with the problem of your plastic storage containers being broken down by essential oils, rather store these oils in containers such as glass or metal containers<\/strong>, and use your plastic containers to store other items or even other oils such as coconut oil or peanut oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlastic is a great and easy solution to many storage problems, just not essential oils.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essential oils are labeled as a natural product, and because of this, people often associate them with being a weak substance. However, this is far from the truth. Pure essential oils<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housefragrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housefragrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housefragrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housefragrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housefragrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housefragrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housefragrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housefragrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housefragrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housefragrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}