How Are Essential Oils Classified as Therapeutic?
Many factors contribute to the quality of plants health & vitality. Harvesting as well as processing – timing and techniques – significantly affect the final quality of essential oils (EO).
~ The plants must be grown organically in climates ideally suited to enhance the quality of their essential oil compounds.
~ The harvested plant material (roots, stems, bark, leaves, berries, petals, rind…depending on the essential oil) must be processed under low temperatures & pressures for the appropriate length of time. Nothing, except for steam used in the distillation process, should be added* or removed* from the essential oil.
~ Gas chromatography – scientific laboratory analysis – is used to assess the proportions of an essential oil’s component molecules, which determines whether or not the EO meets therapeutic standards set by AFNOR.
~ AFNOR, a French organization that regulates EOs in Europe, has set standards of how much of each chemical component must be in a therapeutic essential oil.
~ All Young Living Essential Oils are tested at the AFNOR lab (and several others) to assure quality.
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