Purity and Power in Every YL Bottle of Oil
Gary is shown preparing to make the cut in the bark of this Boswellia sacra frankincense tree in Oman, which will start the resin flowing. The resin collected from these trees is distilled in Salalah, Oman, and becomes Young Living’s exquisite Sacred Frankincense essential oil.
Welcome to the world of essential oils.
What are essential oils? I get asked this question all the time. It’s really simple: essential oils are the plant’s “life blood” distilled from aromatic plants.
Your blood regulates your immune system. Though it is not an exact comparison, the essential oil gives a form of immunity to the plant. Aromatic plants will give off fragrances to ward off insects, pests, and other critters or animals that might attack the plant or try to destroy it. This liquid gold is obtained from the leaves, flowers, roots, and stems of plants and the bark, needles, leaves, or resin of trees.
Quality, true quality, starts at the source. Young Living has developed genuine organic practices at all farms from Seed to Seal: St. Maries, Idaho; Simiane-la-Rotonde, France; Naples, Idaho; Mona, Utah; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Iquitos, Peru; Taitung, Taiwan; Almog, Israel; and Salalah, Oman, in addition to many partner farms. Young Living is the largest private grower of plants used for the production of essential oils in the world.
Each batch of oil is independently tested for purity, and only after the oils pass the criteria for therapeutic-grade are they bottled for distribution. That’s one of the reasons why we have a laboratory at our distillation facilities; so as we’re distilling, we can run an analysis, look at the compounds, and see if we’re doing it right.
