Not all essential oils are the same. Various essential oil companies may offer oils from the same plants, like lavender, peppermint and lemon. There are plenty of essential oils you can buy, but if you look carefully, you’ll discover that most of them do not go through a rigorous quality control process to ensure they have no impurities. And that makes a major difference.
doTERRA founders were committed to providing only the highest quality and purest essential oils. That was the foundation for a new standard of therapeutic quality: CPTG Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade® quality protocol.
Before: Before testing for quality — even before the oils are extracted — nurturing and cultivating the plants has to happen. Plants need to be grown in the most favorable environment. Then, the harvesting and transporting must be done with care.
During: The distillation process of essential oil production also is important. Steam distillation is the most common method, using steam and pressure to cause the essential oils to be released. Another method is expression or “cold pressed.” This method uses mechanical pressure. Distillation is not one size fits all. The proper method must be used for each particular plant.
After: Immediately after distillation is when the CPTG testing begins. It isn’t just a one-step process. The essential oils go through three sets of review, which include:
- Organoleptic testing
- Microbial testing
- Gas chromatography
- Mass spectrometry
- Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
- Chirality testing
- Isotopic analysis
- Heavy metal testing
The highest quality essential oils are packaged and made available to consumers only after these tests have been completed and the quality assurance standards have been met. Talk about standing out from the rest!