Essential Oils & Suppliments web site is your key to learning the healing power of essential oils, and an introduction to Young Living therapeutic grade essential oils. Young Living Therapeutic Grade (YLTG) means that every essential oil Young Living distills or sources has the optimal...There is a significant difference between essential oils that simply smell good and those that are therapeutic-grade. There is a significant difference between essential oils that simply smell good and those that are therapeutic-grade.

Independent laboratory testing proves that Young Living essential oils meet and often exceed industry requirements, and as stewards of nature's plant remedies, Young Living maintains higher internal standards, built upon the magnitude of our own rigorous Quality Assurance requirements. This standard is known as "therapeutic-grade." In order to achieve therapeutic-grade classification, each essential oil must achieve the designation naturally, without excess manipulation and refinement, and meet specific criteria in four key areas: Plants, Preparation, Purity, and Potency.

PLANTS: Young Living products are produced from the right plants, grown in exceptional soil, and harvested at exactly the right time.

PREPARATION: Honoring a strict commitment to respect and protect the time-honored methods of distillation, Young Living makes every effort to preserve "nature's living energy" in a manner as close to its natural state as possible. Using pure mountain water free of additives, Young Living has a proprietary, stainless steel distillation process.