[Herbalist] BASIL OIL

[Jenne Heise]

> So even if you use a commercial oil, like say an olive or safflower oil,
> and add an herb, it's dangerous? I would think that all commercial oils
> would be treated against botulism and other bad things already. Hmm.....

It's not the oil that's dangerous. It's possibility that there are
botulism spores on the _plant material_. Oils provide an anerobic
enviroment and are not acidic enough to kill the botulism spores.

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