Not all essential oils are created equal, and neither are the companies that sell them.

Essential Oils

Whether you know nothing about essential oils and are just starting to research them.  Or you have been using them for many, many years.   Since we all have one thing in common: we want the purest and highest quality essential oils available.

Besides, there are so many companies that sell essential oils.  What makes Plant Therapy different or what makes them the best essential oil company?

The People

Notably, Plant Therapy has a great group of people from the owners, management team, aromatherapist team, the customer service team, warehouse team, and last but not least, the BEST customers.  After all, we go above and beyond just selling the highest quality essential oils.  Above all this is why we created the first ever full line of KidSafe® synergies.  Hence, formulated by Robert Tisserand, parents can know without a doubt that they are helping bless the lives of their children.  Meanwhile using these safe and most effective essential oils on the market for you and your loved ones to stay healthy.

What is an essential oil?

In essence, an essential oil is a concentrated, volatile, aromatic liquid.  Where it is obtained from the fruits, seeds, flowers, bark, stems, roots, leaves, or other parts of a plant.  In fact, there are estimated to be 10,000 aromatic plants (ie that contain essential oils) on Earth.  Which, about 500 of these are processed commercially for essential oil extraction.  After all these oils have been used for centuries for both their healing and aromatic benefits.  Rather, this is most commonly accomplished by steam distillation (steam is passed through the plant material).   Sometimes, this is accomplished by hydro-distillation (the plant is gently boiled in water).  Additionally, more modern methods include mechanically expressing oils from citrus fruit peel, and solvent extraction. But, solvent extracted oils include CO2 extracts and absolutes, and these are NOT classed as essential oils.

Purity & Quality

Of course, Plant Therapy’s standards of quality are some of the strictest in the industry.  Before selling an essential oil we do everything possible to establish that it is 100% pure and natural.  In fact, making this of the highest quality, appropriate for use in aromatherapy.  Especially, ensuring that the oils meets these strict standards, Plant Therapy works directly with world-renowned essential oil expert, Robert Tisserand, and several analytical laboratories.

The Oils

Essential oils are composed of many constituents, typically about 100, though it can range from 10 to 200.  Factors that affect the composition.  Therefore the quality of the oil, include where the plant was grown (country of origin, latitude, elevation) soil and weather conditions, time-of-day and time-of-year of harvest, and various parameters of distillation.

Essential oils with the same common name, such as Eucalyptus, Lemongrass or Wintergreen, may come from more than one species of plant.  Others, such as Basil, Rosemary or Thyme, come from the same species, but they come in different ‘chemotypes’.  Which this means there are significant differences in the composition from one chemotype to another.

All of these factors potentially affect both quality and therapeutic effect.  When we finally know what oil we are sampling we can then move on to the testing phase.  Typically, this is when testing 3-5 samples from different suppliers for every essential oil that we buy.  Even when we re-purchase from the same supplier, we test the new batch of oil.

Essential Oil Experience

I will tell you, started my family on essential oils a few years ago.  That was probably the best thing I could have ever done.  A friend of mine had gotten bitten by a snake without realizing it.  I had gotten her started on using essential oils as well.  The first thing I did when she got the snake bite was put Eucalyptus oil on it.  Therefore, when we took her to the hospital the doctor said that her putting eucalyptus on her bite SAVED her life.  Yes, essential oils are something that tell everyone about.  Notably, you want to keep you and your family healthy take a look at going to a more natural way of doing it through the use of essential oils.