Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils

Here’s a quick test to ensure that your Essential Oils are Therapeutic Grade:

• Are the fragrances subtle, rich, organic, and delicate? Do they “feel” natural?
• Do the fragrances of your oils vary from batch to batch as an indication that they are pure and painstakingly distilled in small batches rather than industrially processed on a large scale?
• Does your supplier send each batch of essential oils it receives through up to five different analyses before it is released?
• Are these tests performed by independent labs?
• Does your supplier grow and distill its own organically grown herbs?
• Are the distillation facilities part of the farm where the herbs are grown so they are freshly distilled, maintaining their potency?
• Does your supplier use low pressure and low temperature to distill essential oils and preserve all of their fragile chemical constituents?
• Are the distillation cookers fabricated from costly stainless steel alloys to reduce the likelihood of the oils chemically reacting with metal?
• Does your supplier have representatives traveling worldwide to personally inspect the fields and distilleries where the herbs are grown and distilled?
• Do they scrutinize the facilities to check that no synthetic chemicals are being used in any of these processes?

If your answer to all of these questions is yes, you can feel confident that your oils are therapeutic grade, the purest available.

Source: Introduction to Young Living Essential Oils