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Young Living :The World Leader in Essential Oils

D. Gary Young: Founder, Pioneer, and World’s Foremost Expert

Twenty-three years ago, D Gary Young began a most remarkable journey that has taken him around the world countless times in search of lost and forgotten knowledge, changing his life forever. The discoveries of this journey have helped millions of people in their quest for natural ways of healing and improving their lives and have led to the creation and development of the world’s largest and foremost authority on essential oils sciences—Young Living Essential Oils.

Through personal experimentation and Gas Chromatograph (GC) and Mass Spectrometer (MS) analyses Gary Young began to understand that most essential oils sold on the market are cut with synthetic compounds. Some oils are second or third distillations, which are the byproducts of the food and/or flavoring industry that no longer contain nature’s living energy and healing power. Gary established the term therapeutic-grade, which naturally carried over into Young Living and is our absolute guarantee that we will only offer 100% pure oils produced from carefully identified plants, whose natural chemical profile matches or exceeds recognized world standards as well as our own more comprehensive internal standard.

It was Gary Young’s passion and vision that first brought therapeutic-grade essential oils to America and his experience, dedication, and hard work are the foundation of Young Living’s position as the world leader.

We are proud of the increased global demand and dynamic marketplace we have created for therapeutic-grade essential oils. Such demand inevitably attracts other sellers of essential oils, but they quickly come and go, unwilling to invest the decades of dedication, unrelenting effort and work, and immense resources it takes to understand even a small fraction of what we do.

The bottom line is this: when it comes to essential oils, Young Living reigns supreme. We want to take this opportunity to tell the world why our future has never been brighter.

Therapeutic-Grade Quality

Gary Young created and defined the term therapeutic-grade. There was not then, and there is not now, an organization other than Young Living Essential Oils qualified to certify an essential oil as therapeutic-grade.

• Focus

No one has more experience than Gary Young growing, harvesting, and distilling essential oils, and certainly no one has more experience using essential oils from household cleaning to everyday health and wellness as well as vast medical applications in a clinical setting. He has led chemists, scientists, botanists, agronomists, and essential oil experts with the single purpose of ensuring that the Young Living standard represents the oils’ optimal natural constituent profile.

• Diligence and Experience

Anyone can claim their oils are pure and potent, but until they have spent years and years studying the vast library of essential oil science and know how to properly calibrate and operate Gas Chromatograph and Mass Spectrometers specifically for essential oil analysis and how to interpret that analysis, they would likely not even know the difference between a natural or synthetic compound.

We continually combine our expanding world knowledge with years of experience analyzing thousands of oil batches and the accompanying GC and MS analyses. To further ensure quality, we constantly check our results against trusted third-party laboratories. Especially helpful for us are long-time relationships with prestigious organizations like AFNOR and ISO and the benchmarks they have established. However, we cannot solely rely on them for our internal standard. The fact that we have distilled, analyzed, and conducted research on such a large variety of plants from around the world places our knowledge and standard at an even higher level.

• Integrity

We consider the trust our customers place in us an honor and want to educate and protect them from the disappointment of lesser quality oils. Every Young Living essential oil is of the highest quality and therapeutic-grade. We do not sell essential oils that fall short of our standard. Most recently, we rejected half a million dollars of rare helichrysum when it failed to meet optimal potency. Sadly, the oils we reject will often find their way into the marketplace through lesser brands.