Enjoy the Young Living Essential Oils company video. And then scroll down to learn why Young Living is so distinctively different in their quality, which is particularly important for therapeutic uses!

"True healing oils are expensive to produce and the temptation to commit fraud is rampant in the industry, which is why you want to purchase oils from producers where you can identify the grower, the distiller and the packager. Anywhere along this production chain, from growing soil to bottled oil, tampering can occur to increase profits. To make matters worse, there is no well regulated labelling laws in the United States as there are in Europe."(1)

I recommend for you to watch the video: "Young Living - Seed to Seal" it contains very important information regarding the process. (Video is on the right hand side).

I get this all the time: "I brought you some specially blessed Frankincense Oil from my trip to the Holy Land!" ... what do you say to such a kind, enthusiastic, and well meaning person?

Very often the label will read something like: "This product is genuine" ... genuine 'what'? Everything is genuine something. Sometimes an oil purchased at a health store carries a lable like "100% pure, organic, and natural." They may even say "therapeutic grade." Most of the time, this would be an outright lie, but a legal one since no government agency has defined the term "therapeutic" and no government agency, as yet, regulates the content of labels on essential oils in a way that would remedy such deceptions. (1)

What does 100% Organic, pure, natural, therapeutic really mean?

The 100% quantitative term does not really mean 100%. In some cases 100% can mean as little as 10% of the real stuff while the rest may be colourless, odourless petrochemical, quite OK in the retail trade.
What does organic mean? "Grown naturally without poisons or chemicals." To organic chemists, this term means, "composed of carbon compounds." In other words, by that definition, gasoline is organic, and so is pure rubbing alcohol, and Dioxin, a known carcinogen.

Highly toxic industrial solvents such as benzene, hexane, toluene, xylene, and carbon tetrachloride are organic. By this definition, every artificial compound synthesized by an organic chemical laboratory is "organic". So when these adulterants are added to essential oil, the term "organic" can still legally be used, implying one thing to an organic chemist yet something quite different to an unsuspecting customer.

Some of the dilutants used in essential oils are odourless, colourless petrochemicals (which are cheap). However, such components can be harmful to one's health when applied to the skin, taken internally, or inhaled over a period of time. The common availability of such adulterated oils has caused some aromatherapists, who unsuspectingly and routinely use such products, to conclude that it is not safe to use an essential oil directly (neat) without diluting it down to a 2-5% concentration in a neutral fatty base. If such an aromatherapist would seek out a reliable source of truly pure therapeutic grade oils, they would find that applying essential oils neat is perfectly safe (with a few exceptions) and of far greater therapeutic value than using them diluted.

British aromatherapists generally never apply essential oils neat to the skin of fear of toxic reactions. In fact most British users of essential oils are horrified at the thought of applying pure essential oils to the body and disbelieve that Esther of the Bible (Esther 2:12) really rubbed pure oil of myrrh over her body for six months in preparation for her marriage to the king.



Natural? What is "Natural"?

Any compound that can be produced synthetically by a laboratory that is also found in nature can be legally labelled and sold as "natural", even though the process by which it was produced was totally unnatural, and the raw products from which it was manufactured may have been petroleum, coal, or natural gas.

 


Beyond Bio-Chemistry: Energy

The electromagnetic frequencies present in natural oils is absent in the synthetically produced version. The naturally occurring electromagnetic frequencies cannot be duplicated or manufactured. Electricity, life force, and subtle energies are beyond chemistry.

A chemist, with all his or her equipment, may not be able to determine the difference between natural and the laboratory produced products, but he discerning powers of the human body can tell the two apart instantly and reacts accordingly.

 


In Europe the ISO (International Standardization Organization) in Geneva, Switzerland, a world wide federation of national standards bodies drawn from 130 countries, has adopted the AFNOR (Association Française de Normalization) and AFNOR-EC Association Française de Normalization - European Commission) standards for essential oils as the international standard.

There is only one North American company that routinely sends oils samples for independent AFNOR testing, and that is Young Living Essential Oils, Inc.

In addition to meeting AFNOR standards, therapeutic grade oils must also be organically grown, unadulterated, properly distilled, and meet other criteria which Young Living Essential Oils do. (1)








During my time at university, I decided to link psychology with the study on therapeutic properties and uses of essential oils. It was here that I discovered that even the most expensive brands did not produce essential oils that actually truthfully resembled the smell of the original plant. (God knows what else did not truthfully resemble the quality of a 100 percent pure, therapeutic grade essential oil).

It was only when I was introduced to the Young Living brand that I was satisfied to be willing to use their oils on my own family and my clients.

Not only do they triumph in their organic purity and top medicinal grade, but they are so fine in their molecular structure that they are able to permeate the so-called 'blood-brain-barrier' to give the benefits of pharmaceutical drugs without the less then desired side effects.

If that was not good enough, these Young Living oils and especially their carefully crafted blends, grouping selected oil essences for specific benefits, have been tested for their energetic vibrational quality. For those of you who are knowledgeable about energy medicine and energy psychology, this is very good news indeed!


Please watch the video "From Seed to Seal" on the right hand side

The following is from the Young Living Essential Oils website regarding the Quality Process:

"Strict attention to detail—from the seeds sown to the plants harvested—ensures that the oils you obtain from Young Living are the purest, most potent essential oils available. This precise, detailed method is known as the Seed to Seal process.

Through cultivation on the four Young Living farms, Young Living Essential Oils has mastered the creation of pure, potent essential oils. The company takes this knowledge around the world to co-op farms to certify that these farms’ growing processes meet Young Living’s strict quality standards.

Young Living’s proprietary low-temperature, low-pressure steam distillation process ensures that the beneficial plant compounds in every batch of essential oil remain uncompromised during the extraction process.

Each essential oil must pass Young Living’s stringent testing to ensure the optimal bioactive natural compounds are present. Young Living uses its own internal labs, in addition to third-party audits, to verify that international purity and potency standards are met and surpassed.

Young Living completes the Seed to Seal process by carefully sealing each bottle of essential oil before shipping them to members worldwide."

(Taken from the Young Living Essential Oils website)

 



 

 



 



 



 
As a psychologist and therapist dealing with delicate mental and emotional issues, I like to use essential oils rather than pharmaceutical medication. However, not all essential oils on the market by various brands are good enough to be used in the therapeutic way. Here is a short, succinct, and very educational video by Terry Tillaart as to what makes an essential oils therapeutic quality. (I jumped Part 4 forward, simply because knowledge about real therapeutic grade oils is so very important to me. Terry Tillaart does a fantastic job educating various other distinctions in the video series below, which I do recommend for you to watch!)

"Local, Organic, 100% Pure, Undiluted".....DOES NOT = THERAPEUTIC


 

Key Distinctions of Quality


 

The Lavender Deception


 

What's IN Your "Lavender"


 

Lessons From A Hollywood Esthetician


 

Jasmine - the truth .. or rather the lies ...


 



 
Gary Young explaining how the purest and highest quality Ylang Ylang essential oil is obtained for Young Living Essential Oils.


 

In Search of Frankincense


 

Frankincense: Harvesting


 

Frankincense: Quality


 



 
Giving back - Young Living's Humanitarian and Social Engagements


 

Gary and his team trek through the jungle to find new plants and essential oils for use in Young Living essential oil products.


 



 

The following two videos you may want to watch full screen to enjoy!

Gold of the Ages - Part 1


 

Gold of the Ages - Part 2