Lea from Nourishing Treasures has been on a mission to test the quality of essential oil companies. Her desire is to see if we really need to fork over lots of cash for essential oils, or if the less-expensive brand at the health food store would do the trick.
Lea 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 her the constituents in the oils. She 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. I am excited to see these results!
Lea has asked for support in raising $1,000 to cover the $200 that the chemist charges per sample, and has 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 she 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 promised to the members of the Learning About Essential Oils Facebook group.
Today all of you will have a chance to win The Essential Oils Handbook, sponsored by Lea herself! Lea recently purchased this book, and it’s one of her favorites.
This giveaway is co-hosted by the following: Stacy @ A Delightful Home, Sara @ Your Thriving Family, Krissa @ More Than Mundane, Jaime @ Slightly Steady, Kathy @ Teaching Good Things, Sara @ A Mama Story, Pamela @ Traditional and Natura,l Kristen @ Smithspirations, AlinaJoy @ Good Old Days Farm, and ME! 🙂
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I’m excited to see the results from the tests.
I love essential oils for use at home and at work.Eucalyptus for dusting to kill dust mites and pepper mint for aroma therapy.I would enjoy trying some new oils.
One can never have too much good information.
Very interested in essential oils. Trying to learn as much as I can and possibly start to make my own. Thanks for this opportunity for a chance to win. Follow your blog and twitter feed.
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Essential oils are a very important part of restoring health
I’ve always been intrigued by the creations one can make with EOs. I believe this book would make a great addition to my library. Xx
I love essential oils and want to learn more about using them everyday!
I just started using essential oils and don’t know to much about it.
I love learning about EO’s.
I love essential oils and would love more about them.
I love essential oils and would love more about them.
I would like to learn more about how essential oils could help me with my health and how may be used in the home
Love to find out if and what the differences are between the different companies. Always willing to learn more about everything 🙂
If I win the book it will help me understand what each oil can do and get me to buy them.
I want to learn about essential oils and I know this book will help me.
I have begun using essential oils in place of many of the OTC meds in my medicine cabinet and want to continue to learn more about eo’s and their uses.
Thanks so much for hosting this giveaway. I would be so happy to add this book to my library!
Love using essential oils for the health of my family. This book would be very helpful! Thank you for this give away!
I am excited to hear of this report. I would love to win this book.
Thank you for the opportunity to win this reference book. I have been adding more and more essential oils to my collection and this guide will help me gain knowledge about using them.
Sincerely,
Laurie
Started learning about essential oils about a year ago, and have been seeking to learn more, ever since!!!
Interested in the results from the lab and the book sounds great. I added it to my wishlist in case I don’t win…
What a great idea. I’ve been wondering myself. I just spent $50 on just a few ounces (with bottles) of different essential oils. I was floored.
I use a few EO but would like to learn more so that I can include them in my everyday life.
Started my journey in EO knowledge a few years ago, but have within the last year been trying to incorporate into our daily lives. Thanks for hosting the giveaway, would love to win more knowledge.
Starting to use essential oils in my home. Have been using eucalyptus oil for coughs lately.
We use EOs all the time in our house and would love to have this as a reference!
I LOVE EOs – I just got over a bad case of shingles in less than 2 wks with the use of oregano oil and peppermint EO. I would love to learn even more about their uses.
Looking forward to seeing the results!
I love using essential oils but do not always know exactly which ones to use, this book would be great! missyscakesandaprons.blogspot.com
I just started using essential oils. I love learning all the ways to use them/
I have been using doTerra oils and so am very interested in the results and incorporating oils into my lifestyle
I have just started using essential oils and I am excited about learning more.
I am excited to learn more ways to use EOs
I am such a newbie to essential oils but the little i have learned has taught me so much! I want to know more! 🙂
I’m a doTERRA user (and seller) and am really excited to see Lea’s results. We use EOs for cleaning, personal care and medicinally. LOVE them!
i want to learn more about EOs! Have used them in basic ways like diaper ointment and salves but I would like to expand.
I would love to know how to use essential oils better!
Thank you for the giveaway, would love to win!
I’m just getting into essential oils and this would be very helpful!
Would love to hear these results and win this book for sure! thanks 🙂
I just started using essential oils and would like to know more about them and how to use them.
I’d love to learn about all the wonderful oils!
I’m an LMT that uses essential oils in her sessions daily.
I would like to win because I do not know anything about essential oils. Thanks.
Much Love.
Janet
Would love to win this book to learn how to use essential oils for health, thank you!
Would love to learn more about Essential Oils to better take care of my family. Thank you!
This looks like a wonderful reference to have on hand!
WOW !!! always great information to be had from you as well as all the other websites and blogs I have been privledged to be apart of. As a newbie, I am always interested in learning more and it would be great to add this book to my education. Thank you
I want to keep my family as healthy as possible in a natural way!
What a great reference tool. I have used oils off and on and what stops me is I do not know how to use some of them.
Marjorie
What a great reference to show me how to use some of the oils I have on hand. I know most oils can be used for multiple things I just never remember what.
We would live to get rid of the medicines prescribed poison) and treat our maladies naturally!
IT has been such a hard winter on my little ones so finding something to help with their poor lungs without using drugs is what we need!!!
We have been sick all winter and while I’m pregnant. I’ve really been trying to learn more about oils to get and keep my family well. I’m sure this book would be a huge asset in my learning process.
I’ve been working to learn more about oils. My family of 6…soon to be 7…has been sick all winter. I know oils can help get and keep us well. I’m sure this book will help in my learning process.
I am new to oils and have a lot to learn so this book would be great!