21 // Are You Using FAKE Lavender On Your Kids? What to Look for In A Quality Essential Oil and WHY Verified Pure Testing and Best Sourcing Practices Matter

If you want essential oils for their medicinal benefits, then you have to ensure their purity and potency. But how do you do this when there’s a sea of adulterated essential oils in the market today?     In this episode, Heidi explains what you should be looking for in a quality essential oil when purchasing. She also gives some tips on how to identify adulterated essential oils on the bottle.   Listen in to learn why you should insist on knowing whether the essential oil has been tested, verified, and sourced in a manner that preserves its medicinal compounds.   “You have to ensure the purity and potency of the essential oil coming from the plants unchanged just as nature produces them if you want a safe and quality product.” ~Heidi Bramm   Top Takeaways: Ensure purity and potency when looking for essential oils.  How a good quality sourcing model gets brokers out of the way, which is good for the farmer and the consumer. The importance of ensuring that your essential oil company is doing significant testing and is preserving the medicinal compounds of essential oils.     What you will learn: [2:54] The reasons why 95% of essential oils in the market are adulterated; preventing you the consumer from getting a pure product. [4:53] A typical essential oil sourcing model explained- what happens between the farmer and the company. [5:58] Common examples of oil adulteration- adding a carrier oil without labeling the bottle, mislabeling species, adding chemicals to spike or create a higher yield, and adding synthetic fragrances. [9:03] How to look for a company that invests in multiple testing to ensure medicinal compounds of essential oils stay intact. [11:23] How you can be curious to ensure you’re purchasing pure essential oils.    WORK WITH HEIDI CONNECT >>> [email protected] COMMUNITY >>> facebook.com/groups/coveredbeloved LISTEN >>> iTunes: tinyurl.com/coveredbeloved WEBSITE >>> heidibramm.com ESSENTIAL OILS >>> bit.ly/oilsmadeeasyworkshop PROPHETIC HEART HEALING >>> bit.ly/prophetichearthealing GOD'S GIRLS CARDS >>> bit.ly/godsgirlscards   __________________   MONTHLY GIVEAWAY -- RATE, REVIEW, AND SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES TO ENTER TO WIN! Go to iTunes and rate Covered Beloved with 5 stars, then click to leave a written review (be sure to screenshot it before you submit or you won't be able to view it!) Subscribe to the podcast! SHARE your screenshot review in your IG stories, or share an episode screenshot, talk about why you loved the episode, or mention this give-a-way AND be sure to TAG me @heidibramm and #CoveredBeloved (This is how I will see and save your entry).   You can enter multiple times per month! If you’ve already left a review, share a screenshot of a recently listened-to episode and why you loved it. You’ll also get a BONUS entry by joining the FB group! So many chances to win beloved!