Essential Oils

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Permalink Reply by Therese Schwartz on August 24, 2012 at 4:47pm

Hi Lori, if you do a search of the forum you will find a wealth of information among many discussions on essential oils.  There's enough there to keep you busy for a while!

My two cents worth is that Young Living are the best quality that I know of that are commercially available, although they are pricey and you have to buy into the "up-line, down-line" stuff in order to get wholesale prices.

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Permalink Reply by Abram Herman on September 7, 2012 at 4:00pm

I just finished an article on essential oils for an upcoming issue of Massage & Bodywork magazine, and one of the things I found out is that there's nothing behind the claims when a company calls their oils "therapeutic grade." So if a company is saying that, you should be leery of the claim, since there's no actual standard for what constitutes a "therapeutic grade" essential oil. Your best bet is to just find a highly reputable seller, and if it seems too cheap to be true, it's probably a synthetic version of the real thing.

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Permalink Reply by Therese Schwartz on September 7, 2012 at 6:12pm

I am learning about that, Abram!  I would have made different comments knowing what I know now.  And I just got oils from a different company that are wonderful.  I used them for the first time today.  Rocky Mountain Oils; they do use the "therapeutic grade" label but they also test the oils to make sure they have the correct chemical components. 

I also read that one shouldn't buy oils from a seller who charges the same price for every oil; that's a sign that the oils are not the quality they should be.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon J. Wallis on September 7, 2012 at 9:39pm

There are  very few distributors of essential oils....This is one of the big suppliers...They sell to many of the big name essential oil companies.   You have to be a health care professional to buy from them....They have ten grades of quality...The site is a bit confusing....But you can buy any essential oil you want at several different qualities.. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

http://essentialoils.org/

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