What Are Essential Oils
Essential Oils
Used for medicinals and anointing by ancient cultures, essential oils were considered highly valuable — certain oils even more valuable than gold. Today, modern science continues to rediscover what some cultures have known for centuries: oils have revitalizing, energizing, and therapeutic powers. Essential oils are fragrant liquids distilled from seeds, bark, leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and fruit. When pure, they are highly concentrated and can be far more potent than dried herbs. Imagine-the distillation of an entire plant may only produce a single drop of essential oil!
Chemically very complex, essential oils consist of hundreds of different chemical compounds. For this reason a single oil can help a wide variety of disorders. Consider two of the many benefits of essential oils:
Penetration
Essential oils have a minute molecular structure that gives them the ability to penetrate cell membranes quickly and diffuse rapidly throughout the blood and tissues. When you apply oils to your skin, the benefits can affect your body in a matter of minutes. Inhaling the aroma of the oils also allows the molecules to enter the bloodstream through capillaries in the lungs, giving you all the health benefits of essential oils.
Immune Defense
Essential oils have properties that make them ideal for healing and stimulating immune defense. Essential oils work as the chemical defense mechanism of the plant, with their potent antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties. They contain chemicals that work as hormones to bring balance to many physiological systems of the human body. Oils like clary sage and fennel, for example, have an estrogenic action.
Why Young Living Essential Oils?
Young Living was the first in the United States to distill oils in a stainless steel vertical distillery. This proprietary system uses low pressure and low temperature, preserving the delicate chemical constituents of essential oils. Also the first to distill herbs harvested directly from our own fields and the first to include essential oils in supplements, Young Living is on the cutting edge of groundbreaking new uses and production methods of essential oils. Most importantly, Young Living guarantees that all of our essential oils are of the finest quality. Because inferior-quality oils are unlikely to give therapeutic benefits and could be toxic, it is important to know that your essential oil is undiluted, unadulterated, and absolutely pure.
Early in his naturopathic practice, Young Living president Gary Young began to study the healing properties of melaleuca oil but was disappointed by the early results. When he learned that there are different grades of essential oils sold in America, he found and tested a top-grade melaleuca oil. This time, the results were remarkable. And so when Gary began growing herbs and distilling oils, he went to great lengths to ensure that every essential oil sold by Young Living meets the world’s most rigorous standard for the label of therapeutic-grade.
The herbs, trees, and other plants that give us our essential oils are grown on organic soil: land free from pesticides, herbicides, and other harmful chemicals. The plants are then cut and distilled in stainless steel vessels, which do not react with essential oils like other metals can. Every batch of oil-whether from herbs grown at Young Living farms or in a foreign country-is quarantined, inspected, and tested for purity and quality with both organoleptic and chemical analysis. Samples are sent to independent laboratories for analysis by state-of-the-art, high-resolution gas chromatography, mass spectroscopy, and infrared spectra analysis. These tests unmask the chemical anatomy of each oil to monitor quality. Altogether, Young Living oils can go through five separate levels of quality analysis before they are released.
Message from Myswizard: Click on the link Young Living Essential Oils and have fun on the site. There’s so much to see and learn about essential oils. I’ve been using these oils for years. The uses for the oils are unlimited. After you’ve made the journey to the site and you wish to place an order please follow these simple instructions.
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