ESSENTIAL OIL BASICS
What Are Essential Oils?
If you have ever enjoyed the scent of a rose, you’ve experienced the aromatic qualities of essential oils. These naturally occurring, volatile aromatic compounds are found in the seeds, bark, stems, roots, flowers, and other parts of plants. Essential oils provide plants with protection against environmental threats and play a role in plant pollination. In addition to their intrinsic benefits to plants and being beautifully fragrant to people, essential oils have long been used for food preparation, beauty treatment, and health-care practices.
How Do I Use Essential Oils?
What is an Essential Oil?
Essential oils are used for a very wide range of emotional and physical wellness applications. They can be used a single oil at a time or in complex blends in one of three methods:
Certain essential oils, when diffused, can be very stimulating, while others can be calming and soothing. Diffusing essential oils can also cleanse and purify the air of unwanted odors and create and more lasting sustained environment of aromatic benefit.
Aromatic
Essential oils are easily absorbed by the skin and can be safely applied topically. Some areas of skin, including the head and neck, under arms, palms of hands, and soles of feet, are more permeable than others making them a more ideal location for faster results.
Topical
Certain essential oils have a rich culinary history and can be used as dietary supplements for targeted wellness. However, it is important to ensure that you only ingest pure, therapeutic grade essential oils. See dōTERRA's CPTG (Certified Pure and Therapeutic Grade) quality standard.
Internal
Essential oils are both exciting and promising when it comes to taking care of your own and your family’s health. Whether you’re applying essential oils topically, enjoying the aromatic benefits through diffusing, or taking essential oils internally, the positive effects of essential oils are boundless.
That’s why you’ll want to ensure that the essential oils you are using are capable of delivering on their promise. You’ll want to make sure that you are choosing essential oils for their potency and their purity.
Why dōTERRA Essential Oils?
Why dōTERRA?
It is important to know that not all essential oils are created equal. Aside from fact that there are various grades of essential oils, the quality standards of the different companies producing essential oils are not always the same. In response to unregulated industry standards, dōTERRA is standing alone in setting the mark for having the highest quality and purity standards on the market. dōTERRA’s CPTG standard, which stands for Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade, helps customers rest easy knowing that every batch of dōTERRA essential oil is harvested from plants in their natural habitat, they are beyond organic, verified pure, free from fillers, pesticides and foreign contaminants, and stringently tested by third-parties to ensure consistency of powerful benefits without the harmful side-effects.
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Below are just a few of the more popular dōTERRA Essential Oils. Select an oil to learn more about it.