Quick Facts
About Young Living Essential Oils

Founded by D. Gary Young in 1993, Young Living Essential Oils is world renowned for exceptionally high-quality essential oils, dietary supplements, personal care products, and other unique solutions for healthy lifestyles.

• Is one of the world's leaders in the cultivation, distillation, and production of organically grown, guaranteed pure essential oils.

• Is headed and founded by D. Gary Young, N.D., one of North America's foremost authorities on essential oils.

• Is the first company to combine guaranteed pure essential oils with dietary supplements.

• Sells products in over 20 different foreign markets, including Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, and Russia.

• Has more than 250,000 distributors.

• Had sales growth of over 4,000 percent during the past five years.

• Uses a proprietary low-pressure, low-temperature stainless steel steam distillation system designed by Gary Young to preserve the high quality of essential oils.

• Owns more than 1,800 acres of organic farmland in Utah and Idaho, with over 70,000 square feet of greenhouse space.

• Annually harvests and distills over 2,000 acres of wild herbs and vegetation.

• Participates in joint-venture research farms in Provence, France, and Seville, Spain.

• Cultivates over 15 different herbs and botanicals, including organic peppermint, spearmint, basil, clary sage, lavender, rosemary, thyme, melissa, and wolfberry.

• Is the largest importer of the Ningxia variety of Chinese wolfberry, a superfood studied in China for its immune-supporting and anti-aging benefits.

• Developed AromaSilk™, an all-natural, essential-oil-enhanced skin and hair care line designed to benefit all types of skin and hair.

• Has over 200 medical professionals as distributors, including such nationally recognized figures as Ronald Lawrence, Ph.D., M.D., and Robert Delmonteque, N.D., who is medical editor for Muscle & Fitness and the Journal of Longevity.

• Conducts ongoing university research on the antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal attributes of essential oils. Some of this research has been published in such scientific journals as the Journal of Essential Oil Research.