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AIA's Teleconference was held on February 16, 2011

Our Presenter: Bill McGilvray

Topic: Australian Essential Oils and Bioactive Plant Fractions - Their Origin and Use in Aromatherapy

About the Teleconference:
Essential oil-bearing plants express many of the fundamental characteristics of their continent and climate of origin. Australia, the "Island Continent", has wrought changes in its flora and fauna unlike those of the Northern continents in particular. The fire-loving Myrtaceae dominate, using fire as a means of preferential propagation: Eucalypts, over 600 botanically identifiable species, and the Leptospermum Alliance, comprising over 520 species including 242 Melaleucas. In each species the diversity in essential oil components and ratios multiplies to thousands of identifiably different essential oils.

The conifers are far fewer in number, but those that have survived represent the time when Australia and Antarctica were joined. Their essential oils, particularly from the wood, show how they have defended themselves from predatory creatures such as termites.

We'll explore just a notable few of these unique essential oils, what they mean for use in aromatherapy, how they can complement essential oils from the Northern hemisphere, and how combinations of your favorite essential oils, and bioactive plant fractions from Australian essential oils, can add to your therapeutic repertoire.

Meet Bill McGilvray
Bill McGilvray’s initial business involvement with essential oils and plant extracts was in the Tea Tree oil industry in 1986, as a consultant in production and distillation. Soon after, as a member of a family partnership, he purchased several properties in the Northern New South Wales area and began to develop a substantial Tea Tree oil business. He designed, constructed, and commissioned one of those properties as Australia’s first broadacre Certified Organic Tea Tree plantation.

Since then he has been deeply involved in all facets of the industry, from distillation to plantation development and management (both conventional and organic), through to research, sales, and marketing. He has developed a network of buyers and agents in over twenty countries around the world.

McGilvray served as chairman of The Australian Tea Tree Industry Association from 1993 to 1996. Prior to being elected chairman, he was deputy chair, and before that a director.

Product portfolios from his companies have gradually expanded to include other Australian native essential oils and extracts. Over the past several years he has been involved in the development and marketing of several other Melaleuca oils, as well as Oil of Callitris intratropica (Australian Blue Cypress oil), several Eucalyptus oils, many other natural extracts and fractions of Australian origin, and innovative products containing these plant oils and extracts.

Contact Information:
Phone: 952-767-0127
Email: bill@plantextractsinc.com
Website: www.plantextractsinc.com

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Bill McGilvray

Topic:

Australian Essential Oils and Bioactive Plant Fractions - Their Origin
and Use in Aromatherapy

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