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Young Living, the next SMC or sales marketing ring?

29 October, 2007 11:35

Have you ever seen the SMC commercial persuading you too join their ring and sell worthless trinkets only the lame would buy?  I find that it is a gimmick, much like the way Young Living Essential oils promote their products through third party distributors.

Like a broken wing off an SMC glass angel, the marketing techniques for YL make what I admit are good quality oils, but are provided like the angel, no class or pride.

The distributors home pages, blog posts, and advertisements consider YL oils god like with no substitutions available.  It is true that there are a lot of adulterated essential oils on the market, but there are even more health and herbal resources that in my opinion offer better quality oils, GCM tests provided with chemical compositions that you just can't compare to YL because they are not provided, and YL is of course oils of the gods - who can argue with the gods.

I have a couple Google Reader and news filters, and I am almost overcome by them.  For the first timers dabbing in aromatherapy, it must look like Young Living is all you can get.  In my opinion, I would rather buy two species from two distributors, experiment, learn, and decide for myself which would be the most therapeutic approach to my purchase dicission.

Most people in aromatherapy know and feel the same way, but then their will be those whom find my opinion dead wrong with hypnotic reasoning of one sole oil to cure and be all that there is.

So next time you are thinking about buying your lavender, sage, and myrr, do a little searching - not only for price, but look for quality, reputation, farming practices, and origin export laws of your essential oils.  So in other words, don't buy the bullshit. 

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Main Entry: spew
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spIwan; akin to Old High German spIwan to spit, Latin spuere, Greek ptyein intransitive verb
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