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OUR PICK OF ESSENTIAL OILS
We're Picky About Essential Oils
Over the decades of conscious committed healthy living, searching for the most pristine natural health-supporting foods and products - we’ve used, experienced and researched the highest quality, most pristine essential oils available.
There Are Many Different Levels of Quality With No Regulations
In the last few years, awareness of essential oils and aromatherapy has risen tremendously, both in the news and in the marketplace. We think it says a lot when one of the world’s biggest retailers is now advertising the use of lavender in their laundry products! (Never mind the source of ‘their’ lavender).
This acknowledgement in the marketplace has also generated products that we consider to be ‘commercial aromatherapy’ or ‘recreational aromatherapy’. More often than not, the ‘essential oils’ that are in so many products on the market now are not derived from any plant, but from a test tube in a lab – or if derived from a plant (originally), they’re so diluted, extended or adulterated, the marketable end-result is anything but an all-natural essential oil.
Decades of Experience in Choosing Pure Essential Oils
As founders of EssentialOilsBasics.com with our combined 40 + years of essential oil experience, research and work in the essential oil world, seeing the growing trend of questionable products that are obviously miss-labeled and misrepresented, we took matters into our own hands!
Here are some things we look at when selecting the best and most pristine essential oils:
- ID of the plant's specific botanical species
EXAMPLE: Nowhere is this more evident than in the production of ‘lavender’. There are so many species of lavender that it has become one of the most prostituted terms in the essential oil word. Each species has its own unique properties and aroma, as well as therapeutic benefits. Knowing whether you have lavendula vera, lavendula spica, lavendula hybrida, etc, can make ALL the difference in the end result. Knowing that an expert of 27+ years in aromatherapy is at the helm of our favorite brand. Making selections and discerning that the best and highest quality oils are sourced - who knows and understands the nuances and difference in botanical species of ALL the plants in the essential oil world – this can make ALL the difference in your essential oil experience!
- Designation of the plant's producing organ
EXAMPLE: In many essential oil plants, it is of vital importance that the producing organ is identified and that the oil is sourced from the specific part of the plant that produces the most effective oil. For example, Cinnamon oil can be sourced from the leaves, bark or roots. Each has its own distinct properties. Knowing that the most common cinnamon oil on the market is generally the most inexpensive, and not the most effective for our therapeutic purposes can also make ALL the difference in your essential oil experience!
EXAMPLE: Designation of biochemical specificity is critical in knowing what unique characteristics are available for therapeutic uses and specific purposes. For example, there are several forms of essential oil of Thyme, each having its own therapeutic benefits and uses. Knowing the distinctions can keep you and your family safe, and benefitting from the wisdom of the ages. We not only provide the different biochemical specificity, but we also help you understand what it means to you, how and why you would use each one.
EXAMPLE: The method of extraction of essential oils is of vital importance in preserving the integrity of its therapeutic properties. Based on the type of plant material from which oils are being extracted, the oils can be steam distilled, cold pressed, or in some rare occasions, water distilled.
There are a number of ways that essential oils can be compromised in the extraction process. Knowing the distinctions, as well as knowing how to sort through the documentation when sourcing essential oils, can again, make ALL the difference in your experience and benefits.
Most essential oils in the common market place don’t even come remotely close to considering any or all of the elements we’ve listed above. Alexandria Brighton is a stickler for quality, detail and specifics when it comes to sourcing the most pristine essential oils, and blending her synergistic, proprietary blends.
The Highest Quality Essential Oils We Have Found is TRUessence . . .
The Mother of Essential Oils in the Western World
At one point, completely frustrated with the lack of quality essential oils in the marketplace that we knew we could trust, we searched and found the best and most substantial essential oil blending expert anywhere around, Alexandria Brighton.
We call Alexandria the Mother of Essential Oils in The Western World. Because she literally is (but that’s another story). With her at the helm, we have generated a line of the highest quality, most pristine single essential oils and blends as well as the most synergistic blends available anywhere. Thus, TRUessence was born.
Why TRUessence
The purity and power of TRUessence Essential Oils is the only source of pure, true essential oils that we would ever recommend. We have researched, studied and concluded that there is not a more pure source of essential oils available. We are very clear that other brands, body shop or health food store varieties of essential oils, though often quick and convenient, are not the quality that we would ever recommend using on your body, or for your family.
Here are a few of the reasons why the quality of TRUessence essential oils is the only brand we trust and the only brand we recommend to you:
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Each batch has a Gas Chromatograph on file, a Batch number and a Lot Number.
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This is your assurance of purity.
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Assurance that the integrity of essential oils is in tact.
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Raw ingredients are rigorously screened before even being distilled.
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The oils have been steam distilled as opposed to chemically extracted or extended.
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Commercially produced essential oils can be labeled ‘100% pure’, and still be extended by up to 52% with synthetic extenders or a cheap carrier oil.
One of our favorite ways to demonstrate the difference in quality of many essential oils on the market, is to have a bottle of every possible brand of Lavender oil in front of a group of people. We have a bottle of every health food store variety, body shop variety, and any other miscellaneous brand we could muster up. We then have each person in the group smell each of the bottles of Lavender. There are always varying responses. People experience the diluted, extended, chemically extracted, and compromised oils of all varieties.
Common expressions used when describing the smell of the various brands of oils are:
"I can smell the chemicals!"
"Wow, there's hardly any smell to this."
"Ech, this makes my brain hurt."
"Is it normal to get a headache?"
"When I smell this, it's like there's a bite in my brain."
At the very end of this demonstration, we then have them experience and smell TRUessence Lavender oil. They’re always shocked to be able to smell such a distinct difference! Most of them have thought that Lavender is Lavender is Lavender.
Words that they use do describe the difference in smell are:
"The smoothness and full-bodied aroma of the TRUessence Lavender oil is heavenly!"
"The richness of the TRUessence Lavender oil is palpable."
"The fullness of the aroma in the TRUessence Lavender oil is almost like comparing music played on 2-3 notes of a piano (other brand), to music played on
the full keyboard of the piano (TRUessence brand). The aroma is so full!"
"It's like I can feel the life energy!"
We obviously can’t offer this same demonstration to you online, but we can offer you a full, 30 day satisfaction guarantee!
We’re so certain you'll be impressed by the efficacy and power of TRUessence essential oils, we stand behind them with a full 30 day guarantee of satisfaction and quality.
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"I expect that essential oils may someday prove a vital weapon
in the fight against strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Lavender, thyme and tea-tree [Melaleuca] oils
have been used for centuries as antiseptics;
their chemical compounds appear to kill microbes on contact."
-Andrew Weil, M.D., Self-Healing Series, Oct. 1996
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