What are Essential Oils?
Essential Oils are extracts from the plant fluids that maintain plant life. These fluids and resins
move through the plant's circulatory system in the leaves, stems, roots, and
flowers, carrying nutrition to the plant cells and carrying waste products out,
just as human blood functions in the body. Because essential oils are composed
of the tiniest of organic molecules they can pass through cell walls and membranes delivering therapeutic benefits, not only to the plants that create them, but to people as well.
They are God's natural medicine and have been recognized and used by humans for over 5,000 years that we know of.
Essential oils are mentioned over 500 times in the Bible and were used by Moses, Aaron, Mary and Joseph. Jesus also received and used them, teaching his disciples to anoint the sick with oil and heal them.
The process Young Living uses when planting, cultivating, harvesting, and distilling a batch of oil is
crucial to retaining its vital compounds. Without the exact blend of naturally-occurring plant chemicals, an essential oil can lose its beneficial properties and fail to produce the desired effect. Watch this: Seed to Seal Video.
What does Young Living Therapeutic Mean?
Grade (YLTG) means that every essential oil Young Living distills or sources has
the optimal naturally-occurring blend of constituents to maximize the desired
effect. Young Living is able to make this assertion because of our strict
cultivation process—illustrated by the Four Ps—that guarantees the optimal
potency of every Young Living essential oil.
Plants
An oil's potency can be affected not only by selecting the proper plant to cultivate, but also by where
the plant is grown, the quality of soil in which the seed is planted, and even
the time of day it's harvested. Young Living has extensive
experience selecting the correct species of plant for desired oil potency,
planting under optimal conditions, using ideal soil and natural methods to
encourage growth, and knowing the precise time to harvest each crop. Only those
plants that produce the most active and widest array of therapeutic compounds
are selected.
Preparation
Once the optimal soil, plant, cultivation, and harvesting conditions have been adhered to,
the plants must be distilled properly in order to meet Young Living Therapeutic Grade standards.
Young Living uses a gentle, proprietary technique for steam-extracting the most potent essential oils,
which remains unmatched throughout the essential oils industry.
To meet Young Living Therapeutic Grade distillation standards proper temperature must be maintained
throughout the distillation process, and pressure, length of time, equipment,
and batch size are strictly monitored.
Purity
Young Living Therapeutic Grade standards prohibit the acceptance of any diluted, cut or adulterated oils.
Every product Young Living produces—essential oils, oil blends, nutritional supplements, or personal care,
meets strict purity standards. Every batch of essential oils is subjected to rigorous, state-of-the-art analysis at the
Young Living chemistry lab. Using some of the most advanced equipment in the world, our
scientists subject every batch of essential oils to Gas Chromatograph and Mass
Spectrometer testing, and heavy metals analysis. Oils that exhibit even the slightest hint of possible adulteration
or tampering are rejected.
Potency
The culmination of the preceding three stages, Potency means that the
naturally occurring compounds contained in each essential oil product are of the
highest and most consistent bioactive levels. Without strict adherence to the
Young Living Therapeutic Grade standard in the Plant, Preparation, and Purity
phases, the final product would not have the necessary potency to create the
desired effect
move through the plant's circulatory system in the leaves, stems, roots, and
flowers, carrying nutrition to the plant cells and carrying waste products out,
just as human blood functions in the body. Because essential oils are composed
of the tiniest of organic molecules they can pass through cell walls and membranes delivering therapeutic benefits, not only to the plants that create them, but to people as well.
They are God's natural medicine and have been recognized and used by humans for over 5,000 years that we know of.
Essential oils are mentioned over 500 times in the Bible and were used by Moses, Aaron, Mary and Joseph. Jesus also received and used them, teaching his disciples to anoint the sick with oil and heal them.
The process Young Living uses when planting, cultivating, harvesting, and distilling a batch of oil is
crucial to retaining its vital compounds. Without the exact blend of naturally-occurring plant chemicals, an essential oil can lose its beneficial properties and fail to produce the desired effect. Watch this: Seed to Seal Video.
What does Young Living Therapeutic Mean?
Grade (YLTG) means that every essential oil Young Living distills or sources has
the optimal naturally-occurring blend of constituents to maximize the desired
effect. Young Living is able to make this assertion because of our strict
cultivation process—illustrated by the Four Ps—that guarantees the optimal
potency of every Young Living essential oil.
Plants
An oil's potency can be affected not only by selecting the proper plant to cultivate, but also by where
the plant is grown, the quality of soil in which the seed is planted, and even
the time of day it's harvested. Young Living has extensive
experience selecting the correct species of plant for desired oil potency,
planting under optimal conditions, using ideal soil and natural methods to
encourage growth, and knowing the precise time to harvest each crop. Only those
plants that produce the most active and widest array of therapeutic compounds
are selected.
Preparation
Once the optimal soil, plant, cultivation, and harvesting conditions have been adhered to,
the plants must be distilled properly in order to meet Young Living Therapeutic Grade standards.
Young Living uses a gentle, proprietary technique for steam-extracting the most potent essential oils,
which remains unmatched throughout the essential oils industry.
To meet Young Living Therapeutic Grade distillation standards proper temperature must be maintained
throughout the distillation process, and pressure, length of time, equipment,
and batch size are strictly monitored.
Purity
Young Living Therapeutic Grade standards prohibit the acceptance of any diluted, cut or adulterated oils.
Every product Young Living produces—essential oils, oil blends, nutritional supplements, or personal care,
meets strict purity standards. Every batch of essential oils is subjected to rigorous, state-of-the-art analysis at the
Young Living chemistry lab. Using some of the most advanced equipment in the world, our
scientists subject every batch of essential oils to Gas Chromatograph and Mass
Spectrometer testing, and heavy metals analysis. Oils that exhibit even the slightest hint of possible adulteration
or tampering are rejected.
Potency
The culmination of the preceding three stages, Potency means that the
naturally occurring compounds contained in each essential oil product are of the
highest and most consistent bioactive levels. Without strict adherence to the
Young Living Therapeutic Grade standard in the Plant, Preparation, and Purity
phases, the final product would not have the necessary potency to create the
desired effect
