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Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics by benten10 on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:17PM (#9007595)
Just so no one is confused (like I was for a long time), essential oils are so called because they are obtained using plant essences, not because they are essential to us in any way (though they may now be!)
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Re:Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday February 06, 2015 @12:47AM (#9007861)
The other ones, the ones we need, are correctly called EFAs - Essential Fatties Acids[1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_fatty_acid

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