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Q. What is Young Living’s therapeutic-grade standard, and how does it compare to standards such as AFNOR and ISO?

A. When Gary Young started researching essential oil quality in the early 1990s, a patchwork of different independent standards existed including “Grade A,” “AFNOR,” “ISO,” German Commission E, and others.

Many of these standards were designed for the perfume industry and did not necessarily correlate with the health benefits of the essential oils. About nine years ago, Young Living created a special category of essential oil quality known as “therapeutic-grade,” that incorporated elements of these standards into a new benchmark and linked essential oil composition with its medicinal effects.

Since then, other companies have begun using this term to describe their oils. It is important that consumers not confuse these oils with the Young Living therapeutic-grade standard.

Some oil sellers would have you believe that there are other laboratories, organizations, or associations qualified to certify an essential oil as therapeutic-grade. This is not true.

There is no one other than Young Living qualified to certify an essential oils as therapeutic-grade. Young Living has spent more than a decade defining the Young Living therapeutic-grade standard based on:

. Clinical research on essential oils involving medical professionals
. Reviews of thousands of single patient anecdotal reports
. Investigation of historical and traditional uses
. Analysis of thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies of essential oils

To date, Young Living’s library of university peer-reviewed research papers on essential oils encompasses thousands of articles stored in multiple filing cabinets and is one of the largest-if not THE largest-in the world.

For simplicity we illustrate Young Living’s therapeutic-grade standard with our “Four P’s” philosophy: Plants, Preparation, Purity, and Potency.

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