Why Young Living
“But why do you use Young Living oils? Why not any other brand?”
I tried a whole lot of oils before landing on Young Living. We are going on 18+ years of using Young Living and STILL experiencing AMAZING results.
I want them to work, not just smell good
The vast majority of essential oils on the market today are only suitable for cosmetics and perfumes. Yikes. That’s it folks. Smelling good is a happy side effect. I want my oils to DO ALL THE THINGS. I want them to werk.
The reason Young Living’s oils are so different is their unmatched commitment to producing a pure, unadulterated oil. Young Living’s devotion to creating a highly therapeutic product means they’ve invested in their own farms, care for and nurture their own plants, trees, and shrubs, and finally distill, test, and bottle the oils that arrive on your doorstep.
You can visit the farms without an appointment
My husband and I have seen this first hand at their Mona, Utah, and St. Maries, Idaho farms. We’ve traveled to the Northern Lights farm in Canada, the Ecuador farm, and the Hawaii farm. We’ve seen the distillery in Spain even! Anyone can go visit a YL farm!
DO IT. It will blow your mind.
If at any point in the production process something doesn’t meet their standards, they get rid of it and start again. Because of this, our favorite oils sometimes go out of stock… and we are happy about it! Because we love getting our oils from a company that doesn’t crank them out quickly in a lab to make a buck, but waits on the plants to grow (no synthetics) and until the batch is perfect.
They accept nothing less.
YL owns their own distilleries
No other company owns farms or distilleries. Repeat. NONE.
Let me give you an example of how important it is for a company to know the right time of day to harvest the plant and exactly how long to distill the plant to produce the chemical compounds the plant contains that are helpful to our bodies.
HERE'S AN EXAMPLE!
CYPRESS ESSENTIAL OIL: which has 280 known chemical constituents.
If it is distilled for 20 hours you only get 20 properties.
If distilled for 26 hours you get NONE of the properties.
Most market cypress is distilled for 3.5 hours.
The correct length of time for distilling cypress is 24 hours to get the full 280 properties.
If you want Cypress to do the job it is intended to do, you MUST get ALL 280 constituents, no more, no less. Most people do not realize essential oils have chemical properties in them and in order to get the full benefit out of that particular oil it has to be grown, harvested, and distilled the correct way or the oil contains no benefit to us.
MIC DROP.
This is called Young Living’s Seed to Seal® process. And it is unmatched. Every step from planting to bottling is detailed and controlled.
For more information on the Seed to Seal® guarantee go here.
3 Pillars
Seed to Seal has three pillars.
Sourcing, Science, & Standards.
Young Living gets their oils from three sources - corporate owned farms, partner farms, and vetted Seed to Seal suppliers. All three go through the same 20+ tests, in triplicate, in-house and 3rd party testing is utilized. If an oil from a supplier doesn’t pass, it goes back and is rejected. If it is from a farm, it goes back to the earth in compost or used around the farm.
Seed to Seal is unmatched. It was created as YL’s standard because there is no universal standard that meets the quality needed. Every step from planting to bottling is detailed and controlled. And I’ve seen it first hand. And so can you.
But Young Living is more expensive, right?
Yes and no. My health costs went down dramatically. And time traveling and sitting in a doc’s office went to nearly zero.
You’re right, often times it is and “you get what you pay for” has never been more true. Young Living is more expensive than other brands and oils you can find at Whole Foods or on Amazon because of its therapeutic grade. An ever-growing number of marketers have jumped on the essential oils bandwagon looking for an easy way to make a lot of money. Most of these oils are cheap imitations, purchased wholesale in large quantities, diluted with synthetic additives, and rebottled before being sold to you.
That’s not okay for us. We want the best for our babies and ourselves and we don’t want to “save money” short-term only to spend more long-term because we used something that didn’t do what it was supposed to or even harmed us.
What does organic really mean?
Some of the other companies may claim that their oils are organic. Unfortunately, the term “organic” is not regulated by the FDA in regards to essential oils. They do not certify or grade essential oils so any oil you see making those claims is simply using the word. They did not have to do anything to earn it.
I’ve talked to the farmers, the workers. I know that they use our own oils as pest control. I know that they practice sustainable and fair farming methods. I know they treat their employees like family. I know they practice transparency. They make a mistake? They own it and then pave the way for new standards no one else has. I know they have a mission to provide for those who need it. I’ve seen it. Over and over again.
If you cannot walk onto your oil company's farms and watch them distill their oils at their very own distilleries, and know the detail and standards that go into every single farm, partner farm, and supplier - then don't use it. There’s a reason Young Living is the world leader, and has been, for 28+ years.
How are the oils tested, really?
By employing our Seed to Seal standards on our corporate owned farms, partner farms, and painstakenly vetted seed to seal suppliers, we ensure that NO ONE has more potent or more pure oils.
On the farms, managing our own crops enables us to carefully measure plant metabolism as we approach harvest time.
We do this by regularly sampling and measuring the BRIX values of the plants.
BRIX is a measure of the sugar level in the plants, which is indicative of plant metabolism (when plants photosynthesize, they store the energy from the sun as sugar).
We then harvest our plants at the peak of their metabolic processes, which ensures that they are producing the most and best oil of their lifecycles.
You CAN NOT do this if you don’t have access to the plants on your own farms, and with the strict standards for all suppliers.
In addition to that here are the other tests YL does for every oil:
Densitometry
Viscometry
Refractometry
Olfactometry
Polarimetry
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES)
Gas Chromatography (GC)
High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Automated Micro-Enumeration
Accelerated Stability Testing
Disintegration
pH
Microscopy
Combustibility
Flash Point
Water Activity
Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS)
Chiral Chromatography
Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS)
Young Living also owns two Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometers. In order to operate this instrument, it is required their scientists go thru two years of intensive training. This machine measures the ratios of isotopes.
Young Living is the ONLY Essential Oil Company in the world to have this instrument!
At an absolute minimum, YL runs 20 different tests in triplicate during the initial testing phase to make sure testing is consistent and viable.
All these tests are done in the quality control lab. If any of the tests fail, the oils are shipped to the research and development lab with different scientists and different instruments. If R&D fails it -product is disposed.
If the oil passes thru Quality Control it gets bottled and guess what...tested.
If that is not enough...
Young Living also utilizes a half dozen external expert labs to corroborate the quality.
Testing Results? Click here!
So next time you see a grocery store product Essential oil, or any other knock off brand company... please understand, you get what you pay for.
Let’s chat the organic label too!
