Quality Matters
What’s in your essential oil bottle? Most essential oil companies say their oil is 100% Pure, but that’s simply not true.
Quality Starts Before the Seeds Are Planted
doTERRA’s oil quality starts long before the seeds are planted. While some oil companies plant their own farms in a location that’s convenient for them, doTERRA chooses to work with growers and distillers around the world who have experience in growing high quality plants and producing high quality oils plants from their native regions, where they grow best. Not only does this produce high quality plants that will eventually become high quality oils, but it also gives doTERRA access to help from expert growers. Many of the farmers and growers that doTERRA partners with have family farms and orchards that date back generations. That means they have decades of experience in planting, growing, harvesting, and caring for their plants.
Most Tested. Most Trusted.
Not only is doTERRA there during each step of the essential oil creation process but we have put in place over 60 tests that ensure that doTERRA essential oils are the quality that we are promising you.
We are so confident in our oils that we share all the tests we are performing on our essential oils. Here is a list of all the tests we perform to confirm that you are getting the best quality of essential oil. 60+ tests is a lot! How many tests does your essential company perform?
On average doTERRA runs 0 analyses on the life of a single oil.
We are so confident that our oils are pure, check the quality of your single essential oil bottle.
doTERRA Commitment
Not only is doTERRA committed to pursuing what’s pure, but we’re also committed to supporting our partners and protecting the planet. Keep reading to see how the doTERRA Co-Impact Sourcing®️ model is designed to source the best, while helping the most.
How doTERRA Helps
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Generating Jobs
We seek to reduce poverty through generating ethically responsible employment in essential oil production.
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Fair, On-Time Payments
We provide fair pricing. A fair price is one that has been contractually agreed on by all through dialogue and participation.
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Building Supplier Capacity
We build the capacity of farmers, distillers, and producers of essential oils.
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Sustaining Long-Term Partnerships
We develop long-term partnerships with growers and distillers based on solidarity, trust, and mutual respect.
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Fair Labor Conditions
We require our partners to ensure fair labor conditions and to promote safe and healthy working environments.
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Promoting Co-Operatives
We support and respect the right of all employees and producers to form and join cooperatives to bargain collectively.
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Environmental Stewardship
Cō-Impact Sourcing promotes the use of energy efficient technologies and renewable energy technologies to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. dōTERRA supports regenerative agriculture practices, encourages agricultural producers to minimize their environmental impacts, and seeks to minimize the impact of waste streams on the environment. Priority is given to buying products made from raw materials that originate from sustainably managed sources, and bulk goods are dispatched by sea wherever possible to minimize carbon footprint.
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Facilitating Community Development
We recognize that the well-being of communities surrounding our sourcing partners is key to the long-term viability of essential oil supply.
Why Does Quality Matter?
Have you ever used an essential oil and thought, “Essential oils just don’t work for me!”. This is probably because you were using a diluted essential oil that could have been adulterated. When this happens, the oil loses its potency which results in the oil not having noticeable effect.
Essential oils can either be contaminated or adulterated. Contamination is unintentional and usually happens when there is unexperienced and insufficient equipment being used. Adulteration is completely intentional and means lowering the quality of a substance by adding another substance to it.
80% of essential oils are adulterated in some way.
The History of Adulteration
Adulteration has been a concern since the beginning of essential oils. Companies will adulterate their essential oils because it’s an easy way to increase profits by also contriving their essential oil to go a longer way. When essential oils are adulterated and substances are added, they become harmful and fabricated.
What is Adulteration Today?
Adulteration has come a long way. Today, we see a lot of carrier oils being added in order to increase profits and make the essential oil go further. Companies will also add different oils to a pure essential oil. For example, Cassia has a similar to chemical make-up as Cinnamon Bark. Companies will often add a substantial amount of Cassia and label it 100% pure Cinnamon Bark. There are many more ways of adulterating, none of which doTERRA involves in.
doTERRA’s commitment to You
We are committed to providing you the best quality of essential oil that money can buy. A great deal of time and effort is put into providing the highest quality oil.
However, this is a commitment we are willing make. We are proud to say that quality is our priority. We can confidently say, you will be receiving the highest quality and most pure essential oil with every doTERRA bottle you purchase.
