WHY YOUNG LIVING?
Okay guys, listen up.
We are so flippin passionate about Young Living here, and I'm gonna break it down for ya.
The vast majority of essential oils on the market today are only suitable for cosmetics and perfumes. 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 grade 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.
I've seen this first hand at their Mona, Utah, St. Maries, + Highland Flats Idaho farms. Next year we’ll visit the Ecuador farm! Anyone can go visit a YL farm, anytime, member or not.
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 actually happy about it! Because we love getting our oils from a company that doesn’t just crank them out quickly in a lab to make a buck, but waits on the plants to grow (no synthetics, no chemical process eeking out the last of the oils) and until the batch is perfect.
They accept nothing less.
No other essential oil company owns their own 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 is therapeutic 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.
You should talk to the midwives in on our team about how important it is to have cypress work!
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.
Check out this website for more information on the Seed to Seal® guarantee:
http://www.seedtoseal.com/en/process
But Young Living is more expensive, right? 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 it’s therapeutic grade.
Still we have oils that are $5. We have oils that are $200. Our oils are priced based on what it takes to cultivate and extract the precious chemical constituents, to work with local communities and pay them good wages, and to keep the planet healthy and thriving. Sustainable farming is VERY important to us.
An ever-growing number of companies 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 families and we don’t want to “save a lil 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.
Check out this video from one of the farmers i got to meet when i was sent by Young Living to our Melissa Farm in St. Maries idaho. Such an amazing experience.
➡️ Did you know that it costs $12,000 to HAND WEED an acre of lavender on our farms vs $60 to treat it with pesticides?
➡️ Did you know that there is 2x the demand for lavender in the world than the supply of actual lavender plant. That means *at least half* of all lavender on this planet was NEVER EVEN A PLANT. Completely SYNTHETIC, made in a lab, sold as all natural and pure and yada yada yada.
➡️ With these cheap knock-offs, you are getting so much less than you actually paid for (as long as an oil in a store has just 5% oil in it, it can be labeled 100% pure!)... and oils that have zero healing properties are truly the best way to WASTE YOUR MONEY.
Can I get an amen?!
+ Many 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.
If you cannot walk onto your oil company's farms and watch them distill their oils at their very own distilleries, then don't use it. There’s a reason Young Living has been the world leader in essential oils for over 25 years!
ok ok, i digress… but seriously try them for yourself, you will see a big difference and we are soooo flippin happy we found a company with such amazing integrity that gives us peace of mind, true health + healing, and protects our powerful God given gifts.