Are All Essential Oils Created Equal? + win The Essential Oils Handbook

I'm assisting Lea from Nourishing Treasures in her quest to independently test five different brands of essential oils. While I'm a distributor for Young Living and absolutely enjoy and love the oils, I'm very curious to see how these other brand names compare. As an incentive for helping her raise the funds needed, she's giving away a resource for learning about and using essential oils in our homes.

The following post is written by Lea as she expresses her intent and goals.

A month ago in an Essential Oils 101 post I wrote that I wanted to test the quality of essential oils companies to see if we really need to fork over lots of cash - or if the less-expensive brand at the health food store would do the trick.

I will be sending the same oil, frankincense, from 5 different essential oil companies (Young Living, doTERRA, Mountain Rose Herbs, Aura Cacia, and Essential Vitality) to a chemist and have him run them through his GC/MS, reporting back to me the constituents in the oils.

I will be sending them to him un-marked brand-wise (they will be marked #1 - #5) so he won't even know which brands are which.  

We will discover if they are all basically the same, or if you really do get what you pay for.

In that same post I asked for your support in raising $1,000 to cover the $200 that the chemist charges per sample, and I have been overwhelmed by your generosity!

Thank you so much to all who have sent donations!

If you would like to donate, you may send PayPal funds (Personal, Gift, please, so no fees are removed) to nourishingtreasures@gmail.com.  All donors are listed here and I will include your website if you add it to the "notes" section when you send your donation. A $25+ donation will get your website listed on the top of this page, and $40+ will get you bolded as well.

Thank you so much!

This is the giveaway I promised the members of the Learning About Essential Oils Facebook group I would do when we reached the halfway point - a point we passed on Friday.

Today all of you will have a chance to win The Essential Oils Handbook. I recently purchased this book, and it's one of my favorites.

This giveaway is co-hosted by the following: Jill @ Jill's Home Remedies Stacy @ A Delightful Home Sara @ Your Thriving Family Krissa @ More Than Mundane Jaime @ Slightly Steady Kathy @ Teaching Good Things Sara @ A Mama's Story Pamela @ Traditional and Natural Kristen @ Smithspirations AlinaJoy @ Good Old Days Farm

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