Young Living Essential Oils
Pure plant essential oils have been revered for centuries for their restorative properties to body, mind and spirit, and are now re-emerging as a key
Pure plant essential oils have been revered for centuries for their restorative properties to body, mind and spirit, and are now re-emerging as a key solution to the challenges facing our modern lifestyles. Young Living Essential Oils is dedicated to uniting this ancient wisdom with modern science and state-of-the-art technology to produce groundbreaking new products.
The essential oils in Young Livings collection, freshly cultivated and steam-distilled, are the benchmark of true purity and quality. These exquisite therapeutic-grade oils also enhance our skincare, nutritional and personal care products to provide you and your family with pure and safe solutions in our busy world.
Young Living in Australia
Young Living's Australian company was established in February 1999 and is rapidly blossoming in a culture that appreciates the value of quality, and the importance of natural, safe solutions to modern lifestyle challenges.
The Australian office and warehouse is located less than half an hour from Brisbane's CBD in an expansive facility in the leafy western suburbs.
Your Australian office team is dedicated to providing you with warm, friendly service and an exceptional standard of excellence. In a complementary healthcare environment that is heavily regulated, your Australian executive team places high importance on compliance to ensure for you the future of Young Living's product availability and business opportunity in our market for the years to come.
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Company History
In 1989, from the humblest of beginnings, D. Gary Young started what would become the world's leading essential oil company on a one-quarter acre farm in Spokane, Washington.
On this small plot of ground, Gary carefully cultivated various herbs; with his background in agriculture, the growing season soon produced a robust, healthy crop. Toward the end of the season, Gary built his first distiller by welding two pressure cookers together with a swan neck of copper pipe. It was placed on the kitchen countertop, and the water for the cooler came from the kitchen sink. This yielded Young Living's first tiny batch of therapeutic-grade essential oils.
Gary and Mary Young wanted to share their love for the oils and their potential with everyone they met. In fact, it has been Gary's mission from the start to share the oils with the entire world. To that end, Young Living Essential Oils was born. The first office in Riverton, Utah, was a dingy, flat-roofed building built in the 1970s. It had been most recently occupied by a small church congregation and was a quarter inch short of being condemned. Repairs and refinishing were undertaken simultaneously with the demanding activity of running a business. While Gary and Mary travelled and spread the word of natural health, a few employees did their best to support the growing demand for their excellent products.
Young Living purchased land in the pristine forests of St. Maries Idaho to expand the acreage available for growing aromatic plants. The first stationary distiller was built at St. Maries, and it incorporated Gary Young's pioneering research in low pressure, low temperature distillation. The yield of therapeutic grade essential oils was substantially increased each successive year. The first distiller at St. Maries had a boiler capacity of just over 3,000 litres. Within four years and the addition of six more boilers, the capacity totalled over 34,000 litres!
Additional land was purchased in Mona, Utah, and Lavendula, France, totalling over 2,000 acres devoted solely to the production of aromatic herbs, thus making Young Living's farms the largest devoted to that purpose in North America and possibly the world. Fourteen boilers were built at the Mona site, which quickly became the main centre of farming operations. Combined with St. Maries, Young Living Lavender Farms owns a total of over twelve distillers with boiler capacity over 115,400 litres.
The office in Riverton was quickly outgrown, affecting the move to Payson, Utah, into an old renovated schoolhouse. This old, draughty, brick building housed the company during several of its early growth years.
In 2003, the Lehi corporate office was opened and is the current world headquarters. Young Living's quest for high-quality effective products, its generous Compensation Plan, and unfailing emphasis on education has led Young Living to be one of the fastest growing companies in the nutraceutical industry and by far the largest supplier of essential oils.
Currently, there are offices in Europe, Japan, and Australia, with burgeoning distributor communities in Canada and South America. Young Living recently opened an office and warehouse in Great Britain to supply the needs of our European community.
Join us as we pursue new vistas and scientific discoveries from around the globe. The future promises to be even more exciting than our amazing past.
Founder
D. Gary Young formed Young Living Essential Oils after realising the need to share with the world his amazing discovery of the power of essential oils. As a young man, Gary suffered a crippling injury that nearly cost him his life. This launched him on a personal health odyssey that transformed him both physically and emotionally. Travelling the world to study essential oils and alternative health care, Gary has become a foremost authority in natural health and has become intensely committed to sharing his knowledge and expertise on essential oils with others.
Gary introduced the revered Chinese Ningxia wolfberry to the western world through his friend Doctor Songqiao Chao. The Chinese wolfberry is prized for its health and longevity benefits particularly in China, where it has been valued for millennia. The Ningxia wolfberry is the core ingredient in our antioxidant health drink, NingXia Red.
Today, Gary continues travelling across the continents, investigating both traditional and modern uses of essential oils and gaining insights into every facet of essential oil production from distillation and harvesting to seed selection and crop management. Gary has studied essential oil chemistry, use, and application with the world's leading essential oil experts. He has explored ancient distillation techniques at archaeological sites in Pakistan, Israel, and Egypt. Gary continues to research and travel the world with relentless vigor to help Young Living bring new and innovative products to the world.