What are essential oils?

Inside many plants—hidden in roots, seeds, flowers, bark—are concentrated, highly potent chemical compounds. These natural compounds are essential oils. Essential oils give a plant its scent, protect plants from hazardous environmental conditions, and even assist it with pollination, among other important functions and benefits. Essential oils are the essence of a plant, a gift from the earth.

How Do Essential Oils Work?

When you open a bottle of pure, unadulterated essential oil, your senses are instantly filled with its potent aroma, even from a distance. What your nose detects are the naturally occurring elements of the essential oil. Every essential oil varies in its natural makeup, so aromas and benefits are also unique. For example, Lavender essential oil includes elements that make it effective for soothing skin irritations, and promoting a restful environment for sleep. Meanwhile, when taken internally, Frankincense oil supports immune, nervous, and digestive systems, and aids in healthy cellular function.*

Use Essential Oils to Transform Your Life 

So many of the products we use in our day-to-day lives are filled with synthetic chemicals. These unnatural products can weigh us down and even negatively influence the way we think, feel, and live. Pure essential oils offer an alternative to synthetic products. Essential oils are more than just natural products. Each with a unique chemical makeup, essential oils have dozens of benefits. Essential oil benefits are determined by the chemistry of the plants. If these natural chemicals are properly extracted, they can be used to help you in your daily life.

Essential Oil Uses and Benefits

Essential oils have been used by ancient civilizations across the globe for:

• Aromatherapy
• Personal care
• Healthcare practices
• Religious ceremonies
• Beauty treatments
• Food preparation

What Are Essential Oils Used for Today? 

Historically, essential oils were used as part of cultural practices and traditions. However, we now have increasing scientific evidence and research showing that essential oils can be effectively and safely used in a wider range of day-to-day practices and routines for amazing benefits. Today, essential oils can be used for cooking, household cleaning, personal hygiene, and much, much more.* When you use essential oils, you'll have more natural solutions and fewer toxic, synthetically manufactured products in your life and home.

dōTERRA makes sure that all of their essential oils are safe and have the same consistency bottle to bottle, year to year, through Co-Impact Sourcing. Besides this dōTERRA turned essential oil distillation from art into science.

When dōTERRA distil lavender at Esseterre, or Geranium in Kenya dōTERRA distills it under the exact same conditions every single time: the same amount of product in the vat, the same temperature, the same pressure and the same time.

When you look at the average linalool content in Lavender over the last eight years at doTERRA, it´s very, very similar. This way dōTERRA is delivering not only pure Lavender to the marketplace but to our current understanding, we are delivering the only consistent Lavender to the marketplace.

dōTERRA´s linalool content of its Lavender is around 33 % with 1 % variation either side of that number over the last eight years of production. 

That type of consistency is done through Co-Impact Sourced blending to reduce variation, making distillation a science and not an art.