31/10/2021
Why does quality matter?
Experts estimate nearly 80% of all essential oils on the market are adulterated in some way. If you’ve ever used an essential oil and thought, “Essential oils just don’t work for me,” it’s probably because you were using a diluted essential oil—maybe even an adulterated one. When this happens, the essential oil loses its potency, which results in it not having a noticeable effect.
Essential oils can be contaminated or adulterated. Contamination is unintentional and usually happens when there’s inexperienced personnel and insufficient equipment being used. Adulteration is intentional, lowering the quality of a substance by adding another substance to it.
Adulteration has been a concern since the beginning. Companies will adulterate essential oils because it’s an easy way to increase profits and save on resources. But when essential oils are adulterated and substances are added, they become fabricated and sometimes even harmful.
The addition of carrier oils to raise profits and make the essential oil go further is the easiest adulteration method in the market and remains one of the most common. Companies will also take it further and add different oils to a pure essential oil. For example, Cassia has a similar chemical make-up as Cinnamon. Companies will often add a substantial amount of Cassia and label it 100% pure Cinnamon.
There are many more ways of adulterating, none of which doTERRA® involves in. Purity matters.
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