“What Are Essential Oils?
They’re made from parts of certain plants like leaves, seeds, barks, roots, and rinds. Makers use different methods to concentrate them into oils. You may add them to vegetable oils, creams, or bath gels. Or you might smell them, rub them on your skin, or put them in your bath. Some research shows that they can be helpful, if you know how to use them the right way. Always check the label and ask your doctor if you’re not sure if they’re OK for you to use.” (https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/ss/slideshow-essential-oils)
“What Are Essential Oils?
Essential oils are basically plant extracts. They’re made by steaming or pressing various parts of a plant (flowers, bark, leaves or fruit) to capture the compounds that produce fragrance. It can take several pounds of a plant to produce a single bottle of essential oil. In addition to creating scent, essential oils perform other functions in plants, too.” (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/aromatherapy-do-essential-oils-really-work)
My personal choice since 2015 for essential oils has been the DoTerra brand. Below I have listed a few of the reasons that led me to choose this brand, the brand you use is up to you, your values, budget, needs etc.
I have chosen DoTerra brand essential oils mainly because of their quality and values. Doterra has not only chosen the Responsible Sourcing business practice, but established the Healing Hands foundation
No matter the cost, doTERRA makes it a priority to protect the environment and provide fair treatment to all harvesters, growers, and distillers when sourcing essential oils. This is called Co-Impact Sourcing, and it is a vital part of the doTERRA business model.
Below are the eight guiding principles of DoTerra’s Co-Impact Sourcing:
Generating Jobs: Reduce poverty by creating and sustaining jobs
Providing Fair, On-Time Payments: Offer consistent, fair payments to producers, including prepayments
Building Supplier Capacity: Support farmers, producers, and distillers through training and financial support
Sustaining Long-Term Partnerships: Provide multi-year contracts with growers and distillers based on solidarity and respect
Ensuring Fair Labor Conditions: Create healthy and safe working environments, free from harassment and discrimination
Promoting Cooperatives: Guarantee respect for the right for all employees and producers to join and form co-operatives
Furthering Environmental Stewardship: Promote energy efficient technologies, renewable energy, and waste minimization
Facilitating Community Development: Support community development projects in sourcing communities such as schools, health clinics, training facilities, and clean water systems
https://www.doterra.com/CA/en/why-doterra
The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation Canada™ is working to empower people and communities worldwide to make a positive change. Through partnerships for global impact, matching support for Wellness Advocate Projects and by facilitating community development projects in Co-Impact Sourcing® areas, people are empowered and lives are changed.
The must have trio of essential oils are: peppermint, lavender and lemon:
- Lavender
- Peppermint
- Lemon
