TOP 15 REASONS TO
CHOOSE YOUNG LIVING
Young Living has 30+ years of research and experience.
Young Living owns their own farms and works closely with partner farms to ensure strict sustainable management and seed to seal standards.
Anyone can visit the farms and participate in the harvest and distillation process.
We highly recommend this experience! No other essential oil company owns their own farms and can offer this opportunity.
Young Living is the only essential oil company in the world with a Seed to Seal process since they control every single aspect of production.
The 5-step Seed to Seal® process and quality commitment ensure the purest most authentic oils available.
Young Living uses the finest production practices in the industry.
They distill oils once at low temperatures and pressures, using chemical-free water and medical-grade stainless steel distillers.
Young Living oils are first distillation oils only.
Each batch of essential oils is rigorously tested in-house and by a third party.
Young Living uses organic farming including pest and weed control managed by hand or using essential oils.
Young Living has the largest selection of single and blended essential oils in the world.
Each Young Living nutritional supplement incorporates essential oils, which radically increase nutrient absorption.
Young Living oils meet all industry AFNOR and ISO standards and are subjected to isotopic ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) analysis which determines whether a particular essential oil is naturally sourced or synthetic (created in a lab).
There are no minimum sales or purchase requirements for Young Living members. Ever. The only thing you have to do to keep your membership active is to place 50 pv in one order per year.
Enjoy a WELLNESS LIFESTYLE that you’ve always dreamed of.
Be healthier, eat better, live greener!
Young Living creates an opportunity for FREEDOM.
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15. Our Clubhouse website and Sprucer Clubhouse secret Facebook group are for people who use, or are curious about using Young Living oils. Our community of oil lovers makes learning how to integrate essential oils into your life both easy and fun… join us!
SEED TO SEAL® GUARANTEE
SEED TO SEAL®
STANDARDS FAR BEYOND THE STANDARD
GLOBAL FARMS
A GROWING WORLD
Young Living farms stand apart in the essential oil industry and set the standard for distilling essential oils. That's why our essential oil farms play such an integral role in our Seed to Seal® promise, which commits us to providing pure, potent essential oils to homes across the world. We've invested unprecedented time and resources to ensure that these standards are prioritized at each our global farms, partner farms, and Seed to Seal-certified suppliers, so your home and family gets the very best nature has to offer.
As the world leader in essential oils and a renowned essential oil distiller, we're constantly improving our farms and global partnerships while staying committed to our Seed to Seal promise. With locations on six continents and more than 30 countries, Young Living's global presence is undisputed. With our global growth, our commitment to creating pure, potent essential oils and products through environmentally conscious methods also continues to grow.
Sourcing, Science, and Standards
THE 3 PILLARS OF SEED TO SEAL
Millions around the world have discovered the benefits of pure essential oils, derived naturally from plants. We’re committed to establishing and maintaining the ultimate, industry-leading standard in essential oil products. For us, the non-negotiable benchmarks for delivering a product that our customers can feel great about are multifaceted and exacting. We’re proud to offer an extensive line of essential oils and essential oil-infused, plant-based products that represent the best of nature—through the standards of our Seed to Seal program.
Young Living embraces a rigorous quality control standard to help ensure our products meet strict specifications. Seed to Seal is our set of standards that helps ensure that with every pure essential oil and Young Living product your family uses, you’re enjoying the benefits of our global resources, industry leadership, and over two decades of innovation. The result? A pristine final product that you know has been created with conscientious Sourcing, Science, and Standards—the three pillars of Seed to Seal.
As the leader of the essential oils movement, Young Living is paving the way for every other essential oil company to improve processes that protect our planet and ensure the highest quality standards.
Not all essential oils are created equally. Young Living will never knowingly compromise by adding synthetics, contaminants, or cheap fillers, or by using unethical production practices. Young Living Chief Supply Officer Lauren Walker guides the process of sourcing products from carefully vetted corporate-owned farms, partner farms, and Seed to Seal-certified suppliers and testing them extensively. If our exhaustive tests show that a product doesn’t meet our standards, we don’t buy it, or we reject the batch.
SOURCING STANDARD
The Young Living Essential Oils Sourcing Standard helps ensure a high level of quality and authenticity of essential oils while encouraging responsible practices of production and processing at all stages in the supply chain.
Young Living works with SCS Global, a leader in the environmental and sustainability certification, auditing, testing, and standards development, to develop the Young Living Essential Oils Sourcing Standard.
Supply Chain:The Young Living Essential Oils Sourcing Standard applies to all stages of the Young Living essential oil supply chain, including farms, wildcrafting operations, processing facilities (e.g., distilleries), as well as Young Living-owned facilities. It applies to Young Living corporate-owned farms, partner farms, and Seed to Seal-certified suppliers.
Sourcing Standard Details: Young Living and all of our partners must meet the highest standards in:
Authentication
Agricultural Practices
Harvesting & Collection
Extraction & Distillation Practices
Testing
Traceability
Storage & Bottling
Science is the cornerstone of what we do at Young Living. Our trained scientific staff employs cutting-edge methods to develop new products, as well as to help ensure the quality of all of our products. Both our R&D and Quality teams, led by Chief Science Officer Dr. Michael Buch, work in state-of-the-art labs with some of the most advanced scientific equipment available.
STRINGENT, UNYIELDING QUALITY
Quality starts at the farm and is proven in our labs. Through our stringent, unyielding quality benchmarks, we are able to identify the most pure, genuine, and effective ingredients.
Our quality control team uses a battery of physical, chemical, and microbiological scientific tests to measure the exact components and properties of our essential oils. Each test is repeated numerous times during the quality process. Testing begins at our farms and continues all the way through the final stages prior to shipment to our customers.
Our team of highly trained, highly skilled scientists perform state-of-the-art tests, including but not limited to:
Densitometry
Viscometry
Refractometry
Polarimetry
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES)
Gas Chromatography (GC)
High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Automated Micro-Enumeration
Disintegration
pH
Microscopy
Combustibility
Flash Point
Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS)
Chiral Chromatography
Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS)
While our labs can conduct all of these tests, we routinely use our third-party labs to supplement our internal testing. Each of these labs have highly skilled and trained scientists.
Part of our stewardship is to do business responsibly—from sustainably sourcing plants, to uplifting local communities, and to complying with environmental and other laws. Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, Matthew French, oversees the Global Compliance Program, helping to ensure that Young Living offers pure product that you can feel confident is contributing to the greater good.
LACEY ACT COMPLIANCE PROGRAM
Not only is our Lacey Act Compliance Program comprehensive, it is also the first in the essential oils industry that has been reviewed and accepted by the government. It is the gold standard for compliance programs, and we are proud to have gone above and beyond any of our competitors to establish it. We are engaging top legal experts around the world to keep us advised of the most current laws, as well as to inform us how to appropriately apply them to our most important business needs.
Our team has been working collaboratively with our corporate-owned farms, partner farms, Seed to Seal-certified suppliers, and the government for more than a year to develop this new program.
We also continually work with environmental experts around the world to keep us advised on the protection of delicate landscapes, and plants.
The Lacey Act Compliance Program consists of five general steps that when followed will help ensure that our essential oil products and partners comply with all laws and regulations in the jurisdictions in which we do business.
These five steps are:
Supplier Education
Provide all suppliers with the basic requirements of the Lacey Act.
Supplier Evaluation
Determine which products to source and which suppliers to partner with by evaluating “product risk” and “supplier risk” factors.
Supplier Certification
After providing training on the Lacey Act and our Compliance Program, suppliers will be required to execute the Young Living Lacey Act Compliance Certification.
Risk Assessment
As part of the certification, each supplier and plant product will be assigned a risk category that will determine the level of approvals needed to partner with, or source plant products for Young Living. Both suppliers and plant products are independently assessed.
Auditing/Monitoring
Based on the risk factors, Young Living has developed an ongoing auditing and monitoring program. The new Lacey Act Compliance Program is designed to cover all individuals and organizations in the supply chain.
This gold standard program sets the precedent for the industry and demonstrates Young Living’s commitment to lead the essential oils movement by protecting delicate landscapes and plants.