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Young Living Essential Oils: Are They Gluten-Free?

My sister-in-law was the first person to tell me about essential oils.  I’d never really thought anything about them before (honestly, I might not have even known they’d existed!)  She began to tell me about what she’d ordered from Young Living and how to use it.  I quickly became excited to see what this ‘oil thing’ was all about and if it would be beneficial to my family’s gluten-free lifestyle.

My first question about Young Living was:  Are they a gluten-free company?  After a couple conversations with customer service, I learned the following:  All essential oils singles, essential oil blends, and essential oil roll-ons are gluten-free.  Whoo hoo!  I  asked a couple more questions about oils and learned a some things about Young Living’s quality and production that made me order Young Living’s oils right away.

Are you ready to start oiling?  Click through to this post to learn more about how to get started using essential oils.

Quality

Unlike the aroma-grade or fragrance-grade oils you can buy at the store, Young Living’s pure essential oils only contain the essential oils.  While grocery store oils are cheaper, they usually contain artificial fillers or synthetics.  This is not the case with Young Living’s oils (this is also why Young Living’s oils do not have expiration dates—pure essential oils do not expire)!

This makes Young Living’s oils safer than other oils whether you are applying oils topically, diffusing them in the air, or ingesting them (keep reading to learn about Young Living’s Vitality line).  You can also apply essential oils to specifically created jewelry to incorporate the oils into your daily routine!


If an oil needs to be diluted (due to it being too thick or something like that), Young Living will dilute it with coconut or another natural oil.  In this case, the oil will clearly be labeled as such in the ingredients.

One other bonus of choosing Young Living is that their Vitality line of essential oils are FDA approved for ingestion.  I haven’t seen any other pure essential oils that are cleared by the FDA.

Lastly, Young Living has a greater selection of pure essential oils than any other oil company!  They currently have around 200 essential oil singles, blends, and roll-ons—all gluten-free!

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Seed to Seal

Young Living is the only essential oils company which controls the production process from the time the plant is a seed, to when the bottle is sealed and sold (get it?  seed to seal!).  This means that the company controls every. single. part. of. production.

Young Living’s oils are sourced from their own farms, partner farms, or farms that meet Young Living’s strict standards by becoming Seed to Seal Certified.  This means that the suppliers adhere to Young Living’s principles and guidelines.  They even undergo audits to ensure it!  Young Living also works with third-party experts who evaluate their process to ensure that all products used meet standards for ethical sourcing.

In addition, Young Living is so transparent about their process that anyone can actually go visit Young Living’s farms and help harvest or distill oils.

What about their Other Products?

Young Living provides other products including skin care, cosmetics, vitamins, and cleaning supplies.  While I believe the products are excellent quality (and personally use a lot of them), these are not all gluten-free.  Furthermore, Young Living does not have a standing list of which of these products are and are not gluten-free.  This honestly is one of the things that does disappoint me about Young Living.  So, what do you do?

If there is a Young Living Product outside of their oils that you want to try, take a look at the ingredients list!  Many of their products clearly state WHEAT or BARLEY on their label.  So, obviously, for those of us that are gluten-free, that’s a no-go!

When it comes to nutrition products, the ones that contain gluten or ingredients derived from wheat, barley, etc. do state “contains gluten.”  Some other food and nutrition products actually state “gluten-free” (such as the gluten-free pancake mix!), so these products do meet FDA gluten-free standards for labeling.

If I’m thinking about trying a new product, and the product does not obviously contain gluten, I always contact customer service to double check.  Young Living’s Customer Service is AWESOME!  Contact them by phone at 1-800-371-3515, email at productsupport@youngliving.com, or even the Live Chat feature on their website.  Yes, this is an extra step, but I’ve always found them to be so helpful!

One of the product lines that I regularly order from Young Living is their Savvy Minerals line.  As of the time of this post, the whole Savvy Minerals line is gluten-free with the exception of the lipstick (actually, the lipstick might be, but they warned me that gluten considerations for the lipstick are under review).  Honestly, it’s difficult to find gluten-free make up, and I LOVE this make-up!  And it’s totally comparable to boutique make-up.

How do you Buy Young Living?

Currently, the only place to buy Young Living is through an independent distributor (like me) on the Young Living Website.  Yes, if you google it you’ll find Young Living products for sale on Amazon.  But Young Living does not supply them there!  (Translation: there is no way to authenticate that what’s in the bottle is Young Living’s product—be warned!)

Want to know more about individual oils and how to order them?  Check out this post to learn more.

Hopefully this information is helpful!  If you have any lingering questions about Young Living, feel free to contact me directly at thehelpfulgf {at} gmail {dot} com.

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