Where do I even begin?
Over a year ago I purchased my Premium Starter Kit from Young Living. I posted a picture on Instagram when it came in and people loved it! They had questions and I had to find the answers. In turn, that meant researching new questions and finding answers for them. The interest has grown from there and so has my knowledge on Young Living Essential Oils.
In Young Living we have different ranks, based on different levels of achievements we have reached. In January of this year, I hit the Silver rank. When you maintain that rank of Silver for a period of 3 months, you get to take a trip to one of the Young Living Farms!
That trip was 2 weeks ago! We arrived Thursday night and left Sunday morning. We had an amazing trip! On Saturday we got to visit the Lehi, Utah Corporate Office and the Mona Lavender Farm in Mona, Utah where they farm roughly 800 acres. These are some pictures from both places.
One thing I LOVE about Young Living is the
Seed to Seal process.
Literally, from SEED to SEAL we KNOW where our oil comes from.
Seed. Cultivate. Distill. Test. Seal.
That's our oils!
Does your oil company do that? Mine does!
The Lavender had already been harvested but this was planted along the Farm for looks and smells EXACTLY like the oil in your Young Living Lavender bottle!
"Essential oils have also been used for thousands of years for cosmetic purposes, as well as for their spiritually and emotionally uplifting properties. Young Living has always been at the forefront of bringing this ancient tradition to modern users, introducing millions to a total mind/body wellness they may never have dreamed possible.
Primarily extracted through careful steam distillation but also through cold pressing, the purest essential oils are far more powerful than the botanicals from which they were extracted. Any time you hold a bottle of our powerful essential oils, you are holding nature's pure essence."
Beyond that fence and across the road, is rows and rows and rows of Lavender.
We had the honor (and good luck) to get on the distillery tour where Gary Young was sharing the process.
He told a story of wanting to figure out WHY no one was making a cone shaped lid on the distillery's.
As you see in the back of the picture, there are some small distilleries. With flat tops. Those are some of the first ones that Gary Young built. He told a story of wondering why the lids weren't coned shape and how he came to build his cone shaped.
He decided one day to GET IN THE DISTILLERY to see for himself what the steam did when it was inside the distillery. He got in the cooker and they turned it on. It would steam up, he'd hit on it with a hammer and they'd open it up. It was too steamy for him to see. This took place a few times when he finally was able to see that on the flat lids, the steam condensed on the top of the cooker and rolled back off into the plants. This lessened the amount of oil that came from the plants. So he decided if he were to build a dome lid, with the tube out the top instead of the side, the steam would go up and out that lid, and not fall back into the plant. Increasing the oil extraction by 18%.
Does your oil company do that? Mine does!
Lavender & Melissa plants
This is normally full of Lavender, but it had already been harvested.
WHAT AN HONOR TO MEET MR. GARY YOUNG!
Truly, a brilliant man!
He's been distilling oils for over 20 years and built the FIRST Distillery in the US.
Yall. This isn't some big lab. Or plant. Or warehouse. This is a farm and a barn. And hand drawn drafts of distilleries. Gary is a brilliant, brilliant mind. This is the process of distilling juniper from harvested juniper to oils leaving the distillery headed to the warehouse.
1. harvested juniper
2. Juniper in the 'cooker'
3. The oil separating from the steam/water
4: The oil from the separator transferred into stainless steal drums
5: Straining the oil to filter any impurities out of the oil before going to the warehouse for bottling.
They test the oil for the first time at this spot.
They test again once it arrives at the warehouse.
And once again after its bottled.
Our oil never touches ANYTHING but stainless steel or glass. PURITY FOLKS. That's what that is.
If ANY OIL does not meet the Seed to Seal standards it is not bottled. Gary will NOT compromise his standards. Ever. The less than perfect oil is then used on crops for pest control, made into bug spray, it's reused any way they see fit. Gary doesn't waste anything!!
This is truly amazing!
"The human touch will never be taken away from Young Living Oils" Gary Young
Do your oil company do that? Mine Does!
We finished off the day at the farm with the First Annual Young Living Rodeo.
It is SUCH an honor and privilege to be a part of this company!
This opportunity was absolutely amazing.
I never in a million years would have dreamed that I'd be using essential oils, that they'd change the way I care for my family and our health and wellness AND that I'd go on a trip to Utah to see firsthand the quality and standards of our oils.
There may be others on the market selling essential oils, but I can assure you...
"There is NO competition.
You have the BEST because we created THE BEST."
Gary Young
Can your Oil Company say that? MINE CAN!
If you want to know more about Young Living Essential Oils and their uses, I would LOVE to share more! You can also go
here for a quick little look at just some of the uses of essential oils. I truly believe in the power of these oils. I have seen how they work on my family and countless others.
