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Seed to Seal: The Young Living Guarantee

Seed to Seal

Millions around the world have discovered the benefits of pure essential oils, derived naturally from plants. We’re committed to establishing and maintaining the ultimate, industry-leading standard in essential oil products. For us, the non-negotiable benchmarks for delivering a product that our customers can feel great about are multifaceted and exacting. We’re proud to offer an extensive line of essential oils and essential oil-infused, plant-based products that represent the best of nature—through the standards of our Seed to Seal program.

Young Living embraces a rigorous quality control standard to help ensure our products meet strict specifications. Seed to Seal is our set of standards that helps ensure that with every pure essential oil and Young Living product your family uses, you’re enjoying the benefits of our global resources, industry leadership, and over two decades of innovation. The result? A pristine final product that you know has been created with conscientious Sourcing, Science, and Standards—the three pillars of Seed to Seal.

As the leader of the essential oils movement, Young Living is paving the way for every other essential oil company to improve processes that protect our planet and ensure the highest quality standards.

 

Seed to Seal: Sourcing

Not all essential oils are created equally. Young Living will never knowingly compromise by adding synthetics, contaminants, or cheap fillers, or by using unethical production practices. Young Living Chief Supply Officer Lauren Walker guides the process of sourcing products from carefully vetted corporate-owned farms, partner farms, and Seed to Seal-certified suppliers and testing them extensively. If our exhaustive tests show that a product doesn’t meet our standards, we don’t buy it, or we reject the batch.

The Young Living Essential Oils Sourcing Standard helps ensure a high level of quality and authenticity of essential oils while encouraging responsible practices of production and processing at all stages in the supply chain. Young Living Essential Oils, is working with SCS Global Services (SCS) – a global expert in environmental and sustainability certification, standards development, responsible sourcing, and business solutions – on the details of the development and implementation of the Young Living Essential Oils Sourcing Standard.

Supply Chain: The Young Living Essential Oils Sourcing Standard applies to all stages of the Young Living essential oil supply chain, including farms, wildcrafting operations, processing facilities (e.g., distilleries), as well as Young Living-owned facilities. It applies to Young Living corporate-owned farms, partner farms, and Seed to Seal-certified suppliers.

Sourcing Standard Details: Young Living and all of our partners must meet the highest standards in:

• Authentication

• Agricultural Practices

• Harvesting & Collection

• Extraction & Distillation Practices

• Testing

• Traceability

• Storage & Bottling

Seed to Seal: Science

Science is the cornerstone of what we do at Young Living. Our trained scientific staff employs cutting-edge methods to develop new products, as well as to help ensure the quality of all of our products. Both our R&D and Quality teams, led by Chief Science Officer Dr. Michael Buch, work in state-of-the-art labs with some of the most advanced scientific equipment available.

Stringent, Unyielding Quality

Quality starts at the farm and is proven in our labs. Through our stringent, unyielding quality benchmarks, we are able to identify the most pure, genuine, and effective ingredients. Our quality control team uses a battery of physical, chemical, and microbiological scientific tests to measure the exact components and properties of our essential oils. Each test is repeated numerous times during the quality process. Testing begins at our farms and continues all the way through the final stages prior to shipment to our customers. While our labs can conduct all of these tests, we routinely use our third-party labs to supplement our internal testing. Each of these labs have highly skilled and trained scientists.

Our team of highly trained, highly skilled scientists perform state-of-the-art tests, including but not limited to:

  • Densitometry
  • Viscometry
  • Refractometry
  • Polarimetry
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
  • Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES)
  • Gas Chromatography (GC)
  • High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
  • Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
  • Automated Micro-Enumeration
  • Disintegration
  • pH
  • Microscopy
  • Combustibility
  • Flash Point
  • Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS)
  • Chiral Chromatography
  • Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS)

Seed to Seal: Standards

Part of our stewardship is to do business responsibly—from sustainably sourcing plants, to uplifting local communities, and to complying with environmental and other laws. Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, Matthew French, oversees the Global Compliance Program, helping to ensure that Young Living offers pure product that you can feel confident is contributing to the greater good.

Lacey Act Compliance Program

Not only is our Lacey Act Compliance Program comprehensive, it is also the first in the essential oils industry that has been reviewed and accepted by the government. It is the gold standard for compliance programs, and we are proud to have gone above and beyond any of our competitors to establish it. We are engaging top legal experts around the world to keep us advised of the most current laws, as well as to inform us how to appropriately apply them to our most important business needs.

Our team has been working collaboratively with our corporate-owned farms, partner farms, Seed to Seal-certified suppliers, and the government for more than a year to develop this new program. We also continually work with environmental experts around the world to keep us advised on the protection of delicate landscapes, and plants. The Lacey Act Compliance Program consists of five general steps that when followed will help ensure that our essential oil products and partners comply with all laws and regulations in the jurisdictions in which we do business. These five steps are: supplier education, supplier evaluation, supplier certification, risk assessment, and auditing/monitoring. This gold standard program sets the precedent for the industry and demonstrates Young Living’s commitment to lead the essential oils movement by protecting delicate landscapes and plants.

 

Interested in learning more about Young Living essential oils? Check out this story from The Vintage Modern Wife on how she made the decision that changed her family's lives.

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Stephanie Wolfe is a semi-crunchy, Texas lifestyle blogger, wife, and mother to her disabled daughter and toddler son. She focuses her everyday on sharing her family’s life with others in an attempt to normalize conversations about disabilities and assure readers of the limitless possibilities and positive potential in life, regardless of circumstances. She truly believes there is good to be found in every situation! Her daughter, Addie, is a constant source of her inspiration and the main character of her #1 Bestselling Children's Book, Authentically Addie.

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Andrea is off for her first day of school in Ameri Andrea is off for her first day of school in America! 🇺🇸 

She’s nervous and excited (just like Lawson) but she already made a few friends at church, so I know all will be just fine. She’s got some great classes chosen like swimming (tryouts are Monday), photography, and dance. I know she’s going to have an amazing year. We are so excited for her!
My sweet Lawson boy is officially a first grader! My sweet Lawson boy is officially a first grader! He is excited and nervous for the day but I know it’ll be a great one. This year he says he wants to be like daddy when he grows up so he can go do “storm duty” and help people whenever something happens to their homes or cars. He has a big heart!
What a treat tonight was! 🥰 Andrea told us she What a treat tonight was! 🥰

Andrea told us she loves to bake and one of the things she enjoys making is tiramisu. We had a life group get-together tonight and I asked her if she would be willing to make it. She said yes (and honestly how could anyone resist an Italian bringing a traditional Italian dessert?!) We got everything we needed and made it together. She even let Lawson help! We took it to the get-together and it was enjoyed by many 🥰

Addie and Lawson had fun too. Lawson was in the pool so much I never got a photo of him, but Addie was loving listening to all the conversations. She was just laughing and smiling the whole time. It was great!

The moms also enjoyed a fun clothes swap, and Andrea and I got several new-to-us clothes! We had a blast! Needless to say, it’s been a super fun evening. I’m ready to relax for the rest of the night because I’m worn OUT 😂
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Andrea (pronounced Ahn-dray-uh) flew in so late last night that we let her sleep in and she woke up to a late breakfast with pancakes 🥞 and bacon 🥓. She got all her things unpacked and settled in her new room and we grabbed some Chick Fil A for lunch. Always good! We spent the afternoon bowling and playing arcade games so we could have fun while getting to know each other. It was a blast! At the end, we all chose a little prize to celebrate.

We have plans to bbq for her tonight and we will see where the night takes us!
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Addie also got to meet her homeroom teacher at school tonight but we were so deep in conversation I missed a photo. Although she is a homebound student, we let the home room teacher we would love to see what opportunities are available to her to participate is some school activities if she’s feeling well. She was incredibly receptive and we can’t wait for her homeroom teacher and homebound teacher to collaborate together for a wonderful 5th grade year for Addie.
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