Thank you very much for bringing to light information on synthetic essentials oils.
Synthetic essential oils are dangerous and gives Aromatherapy a bad name.
One of my clients was using Young Living Therapeutic Grade essential oils for pre-cancer lesions on her face. One of them was lavender. A friend came back for Europe with a lavender that she claimed was better. The client used this oil instead of her YL oils. She called me the following day very upset. I went directly over to her house. She told me what had happened. The synthetic lavender dripped into her eye as she applied it to her lesions.( like she had done with YL oils in the months past.) Her eye swelled shut and burned. One look told me it was a chemical burn. She rinsed her eye with olive oil ( always dilute oil with oil never water) I called her eye doctor and her family took her to the E.R. The E.R. doctor agreed with me, she had a chemical burn from the lavender oil. Which turned out to have camphor in it. Never use any essential oils that are not YL oils. The results can be harmful to your health.
As a licensed Aromatherapy Coach and Vice President of Aromatherapy for the Natural Therapies Certification Board for the United States it is my duty to help people understand the difference between Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils and all the rest. I endorse Young Living Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils because I have seen first hand with my clients the profound effect they when no other options are available to them. I specialize in blends that are taken internally and I have confidence in Young Living’s products because of their standards and the FDA approval.
My mission and everyone at Wisdom By Nature is to take the fear out of Aromatherapy, give people the knowledge they want to make an educated decision and be pro-active in their health and everyone around them.
The Importance of Quality
Many oils, touted as essential oils, are derived with harsh chemicals, diluted, or copied and produced in a lab. Cheap copies bring cheap results and have the potential to be toxic. Therefore, it’s important to choose high-quality essential oils.
Young Living offers 100% pure therapeutic-grade essential oils, essential oil blends, and oil-enhanced products. At Young Living, in-house and independent laboratory testing shows that Young Living essential oils meet high industry standards that qualify them as “therapeutic grade.” This means that health professionals choose them for promoting health and wellness.
Young Living is dedicated to producing essential oils from the highest-quality plants. Healthy plants and proper distillation produce superior essential oils with powerful benefits. Every oil is put through a series of rigorous tests before it is deemed qualified to bear the Young Living label. Our essential oils are then bottled in dark, thick, glass containers to protect the integrity of the oils. Under the lid is a fixed orifice that helps to measure dosages and to ensure safety, particularly for young children.
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.
Young Living Lavender essential oil is labeled by the FDA as a supplement to be taken internally if desired. As we all know anything approved by the FDA goes through many tests and sometimes takes years to approve. Young Living is willing to go the extra mile to make Therapeutic Grade Essentials Oils accessibe to people like you and I. Why? To improve the quality of our lives, our families, friends and even our beloved pets.
Here are just a couple of examples of how powerful essential oils can be including lavender.
Government studies have been done shown that true lavender essential oil does not cause an allergic reaction but right the opposite.(1)
Lavender along with other essentials oils have shown to lower lipid oxidation. Lipid peroxides are the products of chemical damage done by oxygen free radicals to the polyunsaturated fatty acids of cell membranes. (2) This means essential oils acted like anti oxidants in this study.
I hope that this helps shed some light on the difference between Therapeutic Grade and Synthetic Essential Oils.
I encourage everyone to join our group Everyday Living with Everyday Essential Oils and learn the benefits of using essential oils and not let all the hype get in the way of improving the quality of your life or someone you love
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Dear Denise,
Thank you very much for bringing to light information on synthetic essentials oils.
Synthetic essential oils are dangerous and gives Aromatherapy a bad name.
One of my clients was using Young Living Therapeutic Grade essential oils for pre-cancer lesions on her face. One of them was lavender. A friend came back for Europe with a lavender that she claimed was better. The client used this oil instead of her YL oils. She called me the following day very upset. I went directly over to her house. She told me what had happened. The synthetic lavender dripped into her eye as she applied it to her lesions.( like she had done with YL oils in the months past.) Her eye swelled shut and burned. One look told me it was a chemical burn. She rinsed her eye with olive oil ( always dilute oil with oil never water) I called her eye doctor and her family took her to the E.R. The E.R. doctor agreed with me, she had a chemical burn from the lavender oil. Which turned out to have camphor in it. Never use any essential oils that are not YL oils. The results can be harmful to your health.
As a licensed Aromatherapy Coach and Vice President of Aromatherapy for the Natural Therapies Certification Board for the United States it is my duty to help people understand the difference between Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils and all the rest. I endorse Young Living Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils because I have seen first hand with my clients the profound effect they when no other options are available to them. I specialize in blends that are taken internally and I have confidence in Young Living’s products because of their standards and the FDA approval.
My mission and everyone at Wisdom By Nature is to take the fear out of Aromatherapy, give people the knowledge they want to make an educated decision and be pro-active in their health and everyone around them.
The Importance of Quality
Many oils, touted as essential oils, are derived with harsh chemicals, diluted, or copied and produced in a lab. Cheap copies bring cheap results and have the potential to be toxic. Therefore, it’s important to choose high-quality essential oils.
Young Living offers 100% pure therapeutic-grade essential oils, essential oil blends, and oil-enhanced products. At Young Living, in-house and independent laboratory testing shows that Young Living essential oils meet high industry standards that qualify them as “therapeutic grade.” This means that health professionals choose them for promoting health and wellness.
Young Living is dedicated to producing essential oils from the highest-quality plants. Healthy plants and proper distillation produce superior essential oils with powerful benefits. Every oil is put through a series of rigorous tests before it is deemed qualified to bear the Young Living label. Our essential oils are then bottled in dark, thick, glass containers to protect the integrity of the oils. Under the lid is a fixed orifice that helps to measure dosages and to ensure safety, particularly for young children.
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.
Young Living Lavender essential oil is labeled by the FDA as a supplement to be taken internally if desired. As we all know anything approved by the FDA goes through many tests and sometimes takes years to approve. Young Living is willing to go the extra mile to make Therapeutic Grade Essentials Oils accessibe to people like you and I. Why? To improve the quality of our lives, our families, friends and even our beloved pets.
Here are just a couple of examples of how powerful essential oils can be including lavender.
Government studies have been done shown that true lavender essential oil does not cause an allergic reaction but right the opposite.(1)
Lavender along with other essentials oils have shown to lower lipid oxidation. Lipid peroxides are the products of chemical damage done by oxygen free radicals to the polyunsaturated fatty acids of cell membranes. (2) This means essential oils acted like anti oxidants in this study.
I hope that this helps shed some light on the difference between Therapeutic Grade and Synthetic Essential Oils.
I encourage everyone to join our group Everyday Living with Everyday Essential Oils and learn the benefits of using essential oils and not let all the hype get in the way of improving the quality of your life or someone you love
Chalyce Macoskey
Founder of Wisdom By Nature
(1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10217323
January 7, 2011 - 7:05am(2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9490339
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