I have had many people ask me about what Therapeutic grade oils means. Here is an article that shares more about it. As always feel free to contact me for more information or to sign up to order your own amazing Young Living products!
The process Young Living uses when planting,
cultivating, harvesting, and distilling a batch of oil is crucial to retaining
its vital compounds. Without the exact blend of naturally-occurring plant
chemicals, an essential oil can lose its beneficial properties and fail to
produce the desired effect.
Young Living Therapeutic Grade (YLTG) means that
every essential oil Young Living distills or sources has the optimal
naturally-occurring blend of constituents to maximize the desired effect. Young
Living is able to make this assertion because of our strict cultivation
process—illustrated by the Four Ps—that guarantees the optimal potency of every
Young Living essential oil.
Plants
An oil's potency can be affected not only by
selecting the proper plant to cultivate, but also by where the plant is grown,
the quality of soil in which the seed is planted, and even the time of day it's
harvested.
Young Living has extensive experience selecting the
correct species of plant for desired oil potency, planting under optimal
conditions, using ideal soil and natural methods to encourage growth, and
knowing the precise time to harvest each crop. Only those plants that produce
the most active and widest array of therapeutic compounds are selected.
Preparation
Once the optimal soil, plant, cultivation, and
harvesting conditions have been adhered to, the plants must be distilled
properly in order to meet Young Living Therapeutic Grade standards. Young
Living uses a gentle, proprietary technique for steam-extracting the most
potent essential oils, which remains unmatched throughout the essential oils
industry.
To meet Young Living Therapeutic Grade distillation
standards proper temperature must be maintained throughout the distillation
process, and pressure, length of time, equipment, and batch size are strictly
monitored.
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.
Potency
The culmination of the preceding three stages,
Potency means that the naturally occurring compounds contained in each
essential oil product are of the highest and most consistent bioactive levels.
Without strict adherence to the Young Living Therapeutic Grade standard in the
Plant, Preparation, and Purity phases, the final product would not have the
necessary potency to create the desired effect.