Liz said:
Well its used in potpuri so I would say inhaling the scent cant be that bad lol!
I have used it to knock out puffer fish so I could trim thier teeth. Works pretty well and my fish recovered very quickly.
How dangerous is clove oil?
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Well its used in potpuri so I would say inhaling the scent cant be that bad lol!
I have used it to knock out puffer fish so I could trim thier teeth. Works pretty well and my fish recovered very quickly.
I've been an herbalist for close to 20 years. First thing you need to understand about essential oils, is that they are not really oil, in the same sense as vegetable oil you use for cooking. Different sources of essential oil have different levels of actual vegetable to them. Clove oil is one of the higher ones, but still has just a fraction of actual oily oil in it. Different vegetable oils have different "sticky" qualities - some stick to surfaces better than other, such a olive oil. The stickier, the more detergent it takes to get it to release from surfaces.
As a rule, essential oils don't really "stick". The constituent of clove oil that makes it irritating to the skin (and I would imagine, effects fish) is a chemical makeup, rather than oil. This would depend on the quality and purity of the oil, though. Some manufacturers add filler oils, like almond oil, etc. The more expensive the ES, the less filler oil is added. Even so, I think one to three laundry loads, each with detergent, would take care of removing it, even though the fragrance lingers on. Clove oil applied directly is used for a local anesthetic, when applied to the tissue of the mouth especially. However, you can't numb your mouth from just breathing the fumes in through your mouth.
The smell of essential oils is a whole different thing from the "oil" itself. It is meant to permeate other objects, and is soaked up especially well by plant based products, as you would find in pot pourris. Therefore, anything made from cotton will tend to hang on to the frangrance longer. Heat helps to dissapate this, so if you can use a hot dryer, that is good.
Hope this helps!
As a rule, essential oils don't really "stick". The constituent of clove oil that makes it irritating to the skin (and I would imagine, effects fish) is a chemical makeup, rather than oil. This would depend on the quality and purity of the oil, though. Some manufacturers add filler oils, like almond oil, etc. The more expensive the ES, the less filler oil is added. Even so, I think one to three laundry loads, each with detergent, would take care of removing it, even though the fragrance lingers on. Clove oil applied directly is used for a local anesthetic, when applied to the tissue of the mouth especially. However, you can't numb your mouth from just breathing the fumes in through your mouth.
The smell of essential oils is a whole different thing from the "oil" itself. It is meant to permeate other objects, and is soaked up especially well by plant based products, as you would find in pot pourris. Therefore, anything made from cotton will tend to hang on to the frangrance longer. Heat helps to dissapate this, so if you can use a hot dryer, that is good.
Hope this helps!
