How to Tell You're Buying Quality Essential Oils
As you have probably noticed, if you’ve been around for a while, I love my oils. Specifically Young Living Oils. I use them everyday and they have helped me in so many ways. However, not all oils are created the same.
A lot of essential oils you will find in the market today are only suitable for cosmetics and perfumes. The reason Young Living’s oils are so different is they have vowed to create a pure oil without all the junk that other oil companies use. Young Living has 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.If there is anything wrong with their product, they get rid of it and start again. This is why a lot of the popular oils go out of stock. No other company owns farms or distilleries. Repeat. NONE. However, it is so important 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 is therapeutic to our bodies.
Let's take CYPRESS ESSENTIAL OIL, which has 280 known chemical constituents. If it is distilled for 20 hours you only get 20 of the 280 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 just 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 has no benefit to us.
So how do you know if what you're buying is good quality and pure?
Pure essential oils are stored in dark, amber bottles.
Pure essential oils do not have any other ingredient besides the oil itself.
Smell it. When you’re buying oils, they should smell pleasant and natural. If they are pure they will be very potent.
Cost. Per ounce, essential oils can be a fairly pricey substance. But generally, that’s because it takes a huge amount of plant matter — think hundreds to thousands of flowers — to make one little bottle.
If you are interested in purchasing Essential Oils and do not know where to buy or which one is pure. Let me help you. Please feel free to send me an email here or get started here.
