Young Living Essential Oils

I just got back home from a four hour presentation for Young Living. This is an MLM company which sells essential oils and other products infused with essential oils and marketed toward those who wish to live a healthier lifestyle. They are based in Utah, USA and have a worldwide network of distributors. Now I could sit here and tell you many things about this company and the presentation I endured. I could tell you how I ended up there.

I could tell you that to join the team you have to buy a starter kit worth P9,180.

From left to right starting at the top: Frankincense, Digize, Copaiba, Lavender, Lemon
Bottom row: Panaway, Peppermint, Citrus Fresh, Raven, Thieves

I could tell you about some of the silly and absurd science one of the presenters spouted off like when mixing essential oils you have to wait for the molecules to join. Or about one essential oil turning off your sympathetic gland so you can sleep! Or that using these oils will cure various ailments like high blood pressure.

Or how some of Young Living's distributors once promoted their oils as being able to fight Ebola which resulted in a warning letter from the FDA.

https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/young-living-09222014

I could tell you all the same tired crap about how this MLM scheme is different from other MLM schemes because the product is pure and good and you can really make a lot of money if you build your downlines and buy a certain amount each month.

I could tell you all that and more but I will not. Instead I will tell you that the final segment of this presentation was how to make your own soaps and cleaners. They called it the DIY lifestyle but it was far from that. Basically you buy a product like liquid soap, add a drop or two of essential oils, add a little water, and shake. Ta-da! Now you have body wash.

If it was really DIY you would be rendering fat and making your own soap. Buying ready made soap and adding a drop of overpriced Young Living brand essential oils and calling that DIY is ridiculous.

But what really took the cake was when they made their own Lysol aerosol spray. With vodka!

These ladies told us more than once that they aren't doctors, they are just mommies, passionate parents, who love the product and use it on their kids and husbands when they are ill. So that's mommy mixing up the medicine. She added 1/4 vodka, 5 drops of thieves oil (a blend of clove, lemon, cinnamon, rosemary, and eucalyptus), 5 drops of lemon oil, a little cold water, and shook it up vigorously. Voila! An aerosol spray fit for a drunk.

Here is the vodka just in case you cannot tell from the previous picture. Now after they demonstrated how to make the soaps and cleaners they raffled them all off. Guess who won the vodka collins mommy poured? 

Yes they put on the wrong label! This is the aerosol spray not the cleaner.

You guessed it!  Me. Wanna know how it tasted?  Like drinking a clove cigarette!