The Truth About Essential Oils — and How They Get You to Buy and Sell Them

Essential oils are everywhere and the global market is set to hit $27 billion by 2022. People say they can help you sleep, help you relax and even cure a toothache. Mic’s Alexis Kleinman investigates to find out if these oils are scientifically sound and if people actually believe essential oils can cure the illnesses people claim they can.

[Tina]

“Help cellular growth.” Does this woman know that encouraging fast cellular growth is pretty much the last thing you would want to do in cancer? Probably not. I suspect she doesn’t know cancer is uncontrolled excessive cell growth.

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They should make up an essencial oil that cures ignorance too.

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This video proves that humanity is devolving.

[_Abjuranax_]

MLM's are ok and legal, if that is all they are. This is a straight up Pyramid Scheme and needs to be prosecuted as such. You shouldn't have to "invest" up front and "recruit" others into shady deals to be legitimate or successful.

[raymondostiljr]

I just like using them cause they smell good I dont believe they do anything besides smell good I don’t think they help anxiety or anything like that i honestly just like the smell and oil diffusers have nice lights and have a good aesthetic in my room

[almondtree]

I’ve been using and working with essential oils for years - they are amazing BUT the ridiculous claims made by some of the re-sellers of the brands you’re mentioning in your video are starting to damage to the whole idea of aromatherapy... Most importantly, keep yourself safe - if someone starts randomly encouraging you to ingest (drink or eat) or apply to the skin undiluted essential oils, it’s a red flag 🚩 Taking essential oils internally can be downright dangerous as a lot of them are toxic and can damage your liver and other organs. If you’re interested in essential oils, look for reputable, independent sources and DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. If you want to use essential oils therapeutically, at least go to a trained professional, preferably a certified aromatherapist. If you’ve fallen in love in essential oils and currently buying from one of the money hungry, misleading companies mentioned in the video, know that there are many sources where you can buy pure essential oils, if you want higher quality - go for organic 🌱

[alyssaslauenwhite]

What annoys me is that companies like doTerra and Young Living are recruiting people and not properly training them on the material they are then speaking about. Obviously, this video is edited and I imagine that the person hosting the "class" said more than just these things, and the things we are being shown were not said very well and were not 100% true.
I believe what she meant instead of "help cellular growth" was that there are public studies showing that some essential oils can help in cell reproduction, minimizing the risk of cell mutation and the formation of tumors.

The first medicines made by humans were taking plants (essential oils) and isolating specific parts to create an outcome. This was the beginning of Western medicine as we now see it and the beginning of the decline in the common use of essential oils in the household.
In ancient times, those who had the knowledge of plants were older, wise, and were looked to with respect. Let's also take into account that in those times, people were not as disconnected, the quality of food was a lot higher, and our general lifestyle was very different. The baseline of health was higher.


A good thing to keep in mind is that the majority of these people are not bad or ignorant, they are good people who only wish to bring happiness to others through the medium of using elements of the Earth to reconnect us with our body, mind and spirit.


Much love to you all

[robertolson]

Essential oils most certainly are changed from their natural state. These are highly concentrated plant oils. When we concentrate these oils we alter their chemical properties, creating flammable hydrocarbon oils. You won't strip paint with an orange, but you will strip paint with concentrated orange oil. Many of these oils are not much different than any other plant derived solvent such as turpentine.

[Em-petj]

The lack of medical knowledge coming out of this woman’s mouth 😂 these MLM people are hilarious sometimes...

[callmewolf]

Anybody claiming essential oils can cure things or other dangerous unscientific claims should be either fined or jailed.

[TheSongwritingCat]

I'm kind of disappointed that scam artists aren't any more sophisticated than they were hundreds of years ago. It's annoying that this kind of thing is driving up the price of essential oils for people who just want to use them as fragrance.

[macarenagonzalez]

I use essential oils and love them! I am sure they do not cure cancer or any other disease, I believe in medicine and vaccines, I think that people that say they cure illness are wrong and shouldn't do that, but don't think that using essential oils is stupid they have some amazing benefits. I love using oils when I do yoga, when I work, when I take a bath... They smell so good, they help me relax and with the diffuser they make my home/office more comfortable and cozy. I like to massage my foots, my stomach, my neck with essential oils when I start or finish my day, they just make me feel good, is just like using an aromatic candle, a body cream, drink flavored water, doing yoga or drinking a chamomile tee, those are things you make like and that may you feel better.

[Indiefilmclub]

I am an essential oil manufacturer from India. We extract essential oil of many medicinal and aromatic plants. I would like to mention that there are lot of blind beliefs amongst people about essential oils.

Yes. They are very precious. They are pure essence of plants and contain all the medicinal and aromatic properties of that particular plant. However, not much useful for retail users.
For example, even a small bottle of holy basil essential oil can be used to make 100 bottles of cough syrup.
1 kg of lemon essential oil is sufficient to make more than 10, 000 soaps. Thats why they are precious.
But, as a retail customer, do you need that many cough syrup or soaps / perfumes/ cosmetics? NO. They are precious for manufacturers.

They must know What is their purpose for buying.

Also, most of the ABSOLUTE ESSENTIAL OILS are almost pure alcohol and not meant to apply directly on skin or even smelling them directly won't do much good. They need to be diluted with healthy career oils before using on skin or in aroma therapy. Infact the more you dilute them the better they smell.

They have different dilution ratios.
For example, Rose Geranium essential oil needs to be diluted 6-8 times before using for aroma therapy, 10-12 times for applying on skin.

From my experience, retail users can use them for
1) making your own homemade perfume.
2) mixing 1-2 drops in bath water for refreshment.
3) for making homemade scented candles/ beauty products.

If you are not interested in that, then most of aromatic essential oils are not useful for you.

Medicinal essential oils however can help a lot to retail users in theory. If learned about plants medicinal properties.

I hope this is helpful.

And also, you can get essential oils from me at very cheap rate because of currency difference. The 5 ml bottle sold on Amazon for 8$ - 15$, you can get from me for 3$ with same packaging. We deal only in bulk orders minimum quantity 100 kg.

[cathywaller]

Anytime you get with a company oh, and it says you should recruit other people and then tell them they should recruit other people and then tell them they should recruit other people. It is a scam

[eoeoibbx]

I love essential oils but I do use them solely for olfactory pleasure! Also I would never but from any schemes/ catalogues/loyalty systems. I hate people who even attempt to tell me what I should buy, never buy anything advertised etc .

[LisaRettenbacher]

i have (had) a friend who joined the doterra cult and she has changed so much. She told me that you can cure depression and cancer with essential oils. And she also made me feel very guilty and in charge for my own depression, and that it would be my own fault i didnt take action and buy the oils instead.

[HDitzzDH]

This is the reason why the scientific method is so valuable and important.

[hantactica]

Anybody here know about frequency? No. Right? Because it has not been taught in school that everything has its own vibrational frequency and that's what these oil has. It cannot be explained by other scientists because they don't measure the frequency of things. Now, what these oil do is that it matches up the vibrational frequency of something that you want to be healed in your body. That's why some oils can't promise that it will heal you because that's not the frequency that will treat your illness. No one in the comment section explain about this because it has been designed to be hidden. But there are already scientific explanation about this. You can search it. All you have to do is type the keyword.

[chacha]

When I have stomach pain or head ache I always choose first the essential oil than tylenol or ibuprofen. Common sense…. Why would you choose the synthetic instead of natural? Ofcourse go first with the natural. Essential is very effective IF you are buying the pure ones I am saying this because a lot of business out there are selling essential oils with a mixture of something totally not authentic. Pure essential oils are actually expensive! Because it takes a tons of leaves of certain products before it can yield a gram of oil. I know because I graduated Chemistry and extraction of Oregano Leaves was part of my thesis aside from that the process of extraction has a diffent stages it is not just like one step process, when you done extraction you still have to test the purity of substance. It is actually crucial from raw material to extraxtion process.

[whatabeautifulworldastral]

I have very painful headaches and am sensitive to sound and light and the doctors have had nothing for too long and i found peppermint to work better then pills or any advice they give.