Why I hopped on board the Young Living Lifestyle
A month ago, I didn’t know a single thing about oils. All I knew was that lavender smelt REALLY friggin good, but essentially, that was it. My dear friend Jess (@_frankandrose) reached out to me who started her own oil business just a several months ago and saw a potential connect between my current content on my platform and what Young Living could also do for my personal wellbeing. She saw potential in me that honestly, I didn't really see in myself right away (getting emotional actually writing this. She has been a really amazing person that has reentered my life and I’m wildly grateful for the confidence she has in me- this is what the oil business can do for anyone who merges it into their day-to-day). How would I use these oils? Would they actually benefit me? Do they honestly work? Will my followers be interested in tuning in to my journey with these products? Will people think of me in a salesy way? I was overwhelming myself with my thoughts, worries and questions.
(HEADS UP: this post is lengthy, however, it is filled with all of this information that has been circling in my mind the past two months and it gets me really excited to talk about it- if you read on, I think it might do the same for you too).
When I started to do my research…
on the GOOD essential oils that Young Living produces I was addicted. I educated myself and found that essential oils are really fascinating. The oil industry is not regulated by the FDA. Bizarre… Oil brands can get away with putting ANYTHING they want on their packaging, which can make it difficult to actually get quality products when you set out on your oily journey - often leaving you to believe oils are a bunch of nonsense.
Imagine walking into a store, or shopping on Amazon, and you finally purchase yourself that lavender oil everyone is raving about. The package may say “organic” and “100% lavender oil” and you throw it in your cart ready to start indulging in it. IN REALITY, 9 out of 10 times, that “100% lavender” really only has about 4% of actual lavender in it and the rest is filled with synthetics, additives and fillers - which, in short- is doing more harm than good. To be honest, learning this made me kind of mad.
Young Living knows their industry is unregulated so they maintain 100% TRANSPARENCY about their entire process: from planting the seeds, to harvesting their crops, to distilling and bottling - all so that you can rest assured you are getting the best and purest product out there.
Young Living seeds are handpicked from the strongest, healthiest botanicals and are thoroughly evaluated before they’re ever even planted. Once they pass testing, they’re planted in a greenhouse until they sprout into seedlings. Once the seedling is mature enough, they are taken into Young Living’s fields and planted by hand. They make sure that the soil the crops are planted in have never been touched with pesticides or herbicides so that toxins are never present in the plants or in the oils. They oversee every. single. step. ensuring that the correct temperature is used for the correct amount of time so that every constituent is intact. If your only takeaway from this post is to not purchase oils that you don’t know enough information about, then that would make me really freaking happy. Do not support businesses that are lying to you. Period.
SOOOOO what exactly is an essential oil…
By definition, essential oils are the vital (and aromatic) fluids of a plant, shrub, root, herb, flower, seed or tree. You can think of the oil as a plant's "immune system" - it is essential to the life and health of the plant. Oils are extracted through a careful steam distillation process that ensures all the important, therapeutic, and health-giving constituents of the oil remain intact - ready for us to use and benefit from!
FUN FACT: Within 22 seconds of applying essential oils, the molecules have reached our brain. Within 2 minutes the molecules can be found in our bloodstream and within 20 minutes of applying oils they can be found in every cell of our body… ok, dope.
You may ask: so why did you say yes to start your essential oil journey with Young Living…
I’ll keep this brief: I have an anxious heart. I’m just always trying to make sure everything is going smoothly, that everyone around me is happy, that my life is in order, that my lists are all checked off and that I am constantly on the right track. Oils can help with this. And they have for me (specifically Valor, Lavender and Stress Away). I feel like I’ve found an answer simply in products that Mother Nature gifts us, with the only return favor on our end being… to treat her kindly.
I also am a major skincare fanatic. And I found my “be all, end all” skincare product in this journey: Frankincense. I’ll do a whole other post on the benefits of Frankincense, but holy toledo- I wish I hadn’t spend all that money on sh**ty skincare products over the years, when this is the one that has changed the game for me and its 100% from our beautiful little planet.
So- conquering anxiety, achieving skincare goals and lastly, diffusing oils in my ~ little chateau ~ have been my three main uses to these oils that have changed my every day life. I’ve tried swapping all my candles for diffusing instead because… well I’ll get into that in another post; in short, a lot of candle brands are so horrible for you.
This is honestly just scraping the surface…
of the benefits of essential oils. I could get into it and tell you they support they can support the digestive (yes, digestive), nervous, and muscular systems in our body, promote cellular regeneration, eliminate toxins in your body, the list goes on. However, for today, I’ll leave off with this…
THE BEST WAY TO BEGIN YOUR OIL JOURNEY IS:
Purchase a Young Living Starter Kit… that’s it.
The Starter Kit comes with 12 oils for quite a few of the most sought after areas of support: sleep, emotional, immunity, respiratory, digestion, head tension, skin support, energy and more. PLUS, you get your choice of two diffusers (Desert Mist or Dew Drop) and samples of Thieves room spray, Thieves hand sanitizer, and Ningxia. I use all 12 oils almost daily.
Even better, it is over $400 worth of product (when individually purchased) for a fraction of the cost…. Just $165! It’s the SWEETEST deal.
And on top of that, once you buy a Starter Kit, you are officially a member which means you will forever receive wholesale prices vs. retail prices ANY TIME you make a purchase in the future (think Costco). That’s a 24% discount every time! AND there are no contracts or monthly fees (unless you CHOOSE to sign up for Essential Rewards - which, is what I do and has really great perks.)
