Why Essential Oil Quality Matters

"For people who care about improving their health and that of their loved ones, we provide simple, safe and empowering solutions that heal and enhance well-being. Our pure essential oils are revolutionizing the way families manage their health. We harness nature’s most powerful remedies and share these gifts through our global community of wellness advocates"

People: Essential oils are for everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, political, or social views. All people are equally benefited.

Health: Essential oils and essential oil infused products directly and indirectly benefit the health of individuals and society.

Care: People use essential oils because they care about having something natural. They care about what they use personally and on their loved ones. They care about quality, efficacy, and safety. They care about not using things that will harm themselves and others. They care about cost. People care about about rediscovering nature's forgotten benefits.

Simple: Essential oils have been around for thousands of years. There are many different oils used in many different ways.

Safe: When you have a pure essential oil, free from synthetics, contaminants, adulteration, etc. you have a product that is safe to be used aromatically, topically, and internally. Because they are natural there are no side effects. Adverse reactions are extremely rare and usually associated with over-usage or inadvertent placement.

Empowering: I can help put control of healthcare back into your hands. The products we use are pure and therefore safe to be used in almost any way. There is no really wrong way to use them. We are breaking down many false stigmas which come from extreme positions.

Well-being: Essential oils are helping to provide healing physically, emotionally, financially, and sometimes spiritually. Essential oils are powerful agents for change.

Revolutionizing: Essential oils are highly potent and concentrated. Much of the time they work as fast or faster than many of our modern medicines. They are inexpensive alternatives, with no side effects. They replace many of the costs associated with modern medicine and they are much more convenient. Science and research is building our confidence in their vast and diverse usage.

Nature's most powerful remedies: doTERRA takes the essence of the planets most powerful aromatic plants and shares this benefit with the human race. Essential oils are the essence of nature's millennia of evolution.

Share: Essential oils are meant to be shared. It is in our human DNA to share with others the miracles that occur in our lives. When a mother solves her child's pain she will share it. When a product has solved a health concern, no matter how large or small, knowledge of it will be shared. When we see others in pain, we will reach out and share so that they may be helped. Sharing is service to others an innate desire in all of us.

The purity of an essential oil is its most important characteristic. Appropriate analysis of the constituents within an essential oil is one of the most challenging and detailed aspects of quality assurance.

The lipophilic and volatile nature of essential oils causes them to be absorbed into the blood stream almost instantaneously, whether they are applied topically or used aromatically. Once in the blood stream, many essential oils cross the blood-brain barrier. Given this, it is crucial that you be confident of the purity of all essential oils that you bring into your home.

The information provided on this page does NOT apply to all essential oil brands. Because of lenient industry standards and a lack of regulation on terms such as "natural" or "pure", much of what you find at the drug store is not a therapeutic grade of essential oil and may lack real quality or even contain contaminants.

A LOT goes into creating a high quality essential oil. The best essential oil brands follow these guidelines:

• Proper plant varieties
• Grown indigenously for the healthiest plant
• Grown without chemical pesticides, herbicides, etc
• Harvested with precise timing to ensure peak properties
• Extracted with proper temp and pressure to preserve oil molecules
• Third-party testing of each and every batch
• Stand behind the internal use of their oils

doTERRA has chosen to establish long-term relationships based on mutual trust and respect for the passionate commitment of the local growers and distillers to the quality and integrity of their products. These partnerships are based on personal relationships and a handshake and the purity and potency of each liter of essential oil is constantly monitored by the third-party testing. The relationship with dozens of local growers and distillers have lifted up local communities to a far greater extent than if they had simply come into the region, purchased land, and employed locals to perform labor with no personal investment.