Fun Facts: Essential oils

1st FACT: 100% Natural & Safe
dōTERRA essential oils are 100% natural and safe. There’s nothing added to the oil or taken away from the oil. They’re just simply pure essential oils with no side effects and no addictions. They’re safe for babies, children, adults and the elderly.

WHAT ARE OILS? – Oils are extracts from plants that have amazing health benefits.. A pure oil is about 50-70 times more powerful than herbs. For example: one drop of peppermint essential oil is equivalent to drinking 28 cups of peppermint tea. So they’re really potent!

WHY ARE THESE OILS BEST?- dōTERRA oils are Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade (CPTG), which means these oils are completely pure and potent. Pure means there are no foreign contaminants or fillers. Potent means that each plant was grown in a part of the world where that plant grows best, resulting in the absolute best chemistry for that plant. When you have the ideal natural chemistry, the essential oil extracted does exactly what we want it to do for our health.

2nd FUN FACT: Oils are more Effective Than Many Modern approaches to heath problems

Cells have oily membranes. The cell membrane protects the cell, it keeps all the good things in and all the bad things out. Now two of the things that are harmful to our cells are Bacteria and viruses. Bacteria usually form on the outside of the cell and viruses duplicate the DNA on the inside of the cell. All you have to remember is bacteria on the outside viruses on the inside.
Now if you had a virus like the cold or flu, what would he say? (Go home, drink a lot of water, rest and let it run its course) The reason why is because most of the modern recommendations are water-based synthetic agents – and frequently come with side-effects and addictions. Water and oil don’t mix, so if the recommendation from your doctor is water-based, it will have a really hard time penetrating through that oily cell membrane and stopping the duplication of a virus.

Essential oils are different they are oil-based, which means they can permeate that cell membrane! They can work on a cellular level without side-effects or addictions, and they can combat bacteria on the outside of the cell and prevent the duplication of viruses on the inside. That is why they are often more effective than the modern approach to health problems.

3rd FUN FACT: Cheaper Than Traditional Medical Care
The third cool thing about essential oils is that they are cheaper than traditional medical care. Let me explain…..even though in Canada we have free health care, have you ever heard the saying “the sick are getting sicker”? It seems that the second you treat one symptom your are faced with another and then another and so on…you take the pills you do as your told then years later you have chronic issues. Inflammation, autoimmune, wide spread pain, and other issues. Now add up all the time missed from work for sick days, All the time spent at Doctor offices, ultra sound appointments, CT scans and MRI’s. Add up all the time missed playing with your kids or going to special events because you just don’t feel well enough. Not to mention the prescriptions costs that aren’t covered by provincial insurance coverage.

As a comparison, when someone has an ear infection, you can rub two drops of lavender and two drops of melaleuca around their ear, and put them to bed. 12 hours later the ear infection is cleared up. The cost for the oils might be around $30-$60 but one bottle can be used in multiple ways for many different things and you only need a drop or two at a time.. Now whether it costs you $20 for the co-pay and the prescription, or whether it costs $0 because you live in a country with free medical care. Essential oils are still less expensive than the gas in the car you pay to go to the doctors office. That’s not including the half day of work you probably had to take off for this emergency. We also haven’t taken into account the fact that antibiotics harm your gut, and that you might have to buy extra probiotics for two weeks to fix the damage, which is even more money.

You can save hundreds of dollars a year in medical costs because of essential oils. Face it you cannot afford NOT to use natural solutions! THAT is why essential oils are cheaper than traditional medical care.