Why Young Living?
Young Living Own their own Farms and oversees the entire process from seed-to-seal. No other company owns their farms nor has the authority to oversee production as Young Living does.
Seeds : Young Living is not only registered non-GMO, but they know the source of seeds for their essential oils. This is vital in today’s industry. Good seed, Good soil - two components necessary for a good crop. Young Living ensures both.
Lifestyle products: When we start talking about wellness - it is a lifestyle approach. Wellness is achieved by support our body, our entire system - personal care products that don’t disrupt hormones or cause cancer, makeup that isn’t fill with toxic ingredients, supplements that can support our body with proven bio availability. Young Living has more essential oils, essential oil blends, and lifestyle products than any company.
Member Benefits: the ONLY requirement of a member is to purchase 50 PV per calendar year. If not, the account will simply go inactive.
Quality and Testing: Young Living tests every batch of essential oil using up to 20 different tests, in triplicate, two different times during the production process. If the batch makes it through all of the tests during the first phase, then it goes to bottling, where it is tested again with all of the tests in triplicate.
Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS): GC is the method of separating the individual molecular compounds in a substance that can be vaporized without being damaged. MS is the means by which the final detected molecular compounds are analyzed.
Gas Chromatography-Flame Ionization Detector: This may be added to the GC-MS and is a means to detect if there are any non-organic materials.
Viscometry: Measures the thickness of an oil.
Densitometry: How light or dark an essential oil is when light passes through.
Specific Gravity: This compares the density of water to the density of an essential oil to obtain a purity measurement.
Refractometry (Refractive Index): How an essential oil bends light based on its molecular structure.
Polarimetry: How an essential oil bends polarized light based on its molecular structure. Uses Optical Rotation.
Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP-MS): Measures metals in an essential oil. It can detect one bad molecule in a billion good molecules. This is like finding one drop of bad water in an Olympic-size pool!
Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Optical Emission (ICP-OES): Measures metals in the oil using light.
High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC): Similar to the GC-MS, but uses pressure instead of heat like the GC-MS.
Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR): Measures the chemical bonds within the compounds.
Automated Micro-Enumeration: Counts the good and bad bacteria. (Microbiological Test)
Disintegration: The rate at which an oil disintegrates.
pH: The specific pH of an essential oil.
Flashpoint: Specific flashpoint of the oil and safety test. The lowest point of temperature when an oil vaporizes into a gas and then can be ignited with an external fire source.
Microscopy Analysis: Broad range of data obtained to analyze the molecular structure of each oil from particle identification to molecule size.
Combustibility: The point at which an oil catches fire using oxidation without the addition of fire.
Chiral Chromatography: Separates optical isomers. Optical isomers are mirror images (racemic) like your hands. When compounds are synthesized in a lab, we almost always get a racemic mixture. This shows if the oil is pure or synthetic. Man-made products have two peaks that are the same, pure (natural) products have one.
Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IR-MS): Helps to monitor and detect the presence of synthetics. Young Living is the only company in the USA that owns this machine and they have two of them!
Organoleptic Testing: A sensory method of subjective testing where a scientist looks at the oil for optical purity and smells the oil for purity. This is done by very experienced people with a mental library of essential oil aromas and sometimes tastes. This type of testing will usually also be done by physical action to test the oil’s therapeutic response within the body.