Questionable essential oil practices

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The YL Files

Due to the controversy about Young and the Young Living Multi Level

Marketing company this page is to enable you to find out more infomation for

yourselves.

A Critical Look at Young, Young Living Essential Oils, and Raindrop

Therapy Eva F. Briggs, M.D. Article by Dr Eva Briggs *

* Barber K., Gagnon-Warr J. National Association of Holistic Aromatherapists'

White Paper on Young Living Oil's Raindrop Therapy. Revised May 12, 2002.

White Paper on RDT *

* The REAL story about Young and YLEO By Eva Briggs MD **

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Further discussion can be often found on the various newsgroups such as

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Archives of which can be viewed at www.dejanews.com There you can search for

subjects such as YLEO, Young, Young Living, YL, GY, Raindrop Therapy, RDT

etc.

I hope that this will enable any person, who hasncerns for the safe use of

essential oils, to see the oft repeated worries that established aromatherapists

have about the false claims and dangerous teachings of Young and the

business practices of Young Living Essential Oils Inc.

www.vandruff.com/mlm.html Is a page on the dangers of MLM.

A FAQ on GY and YL

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Have you heard of Dr. Young? He is one of the leading men in the field

and has studied around the world. You can check out technical information at

the website listed below.

Have you heard that " Dr " Young is not a doctor as he purchased his ND

from Bernadene " University " which is a diploma mill selling non- accredited

certificates to anyone who pays them the money.

Have you heard that Mr Young is a con man using charisma, pseudo science

and pseudo religion to con people into his scheme.

Here is more info for you

Hi, Enjoy your site very much! Do you have an opinion about Young Living

Oils?

Yes. :-) Varied in quality, Expensive (Wholesale prices much more than most

companies retail), VERY bad company advice, if you can call it that, on safety,

major con-man ( Young), as the owner, major class action against them in

progress, always changing the conditions and commissions to the downlines,

stealing downlines, etc. And much more.

in a word . I would run as fast as possible. MANY better places to learn

about aromatherapy and much better and cheaper places to buy your oils from.

That's the short version

Here is the long version :-)

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The answer to your question should not be hidden under a bushel, so I'll

reply on-line. No answer should offend people who are using YL oils as some of

the

YL oils are obviously good oils - and folks who use YL oils are normal folks.

If my reply " get's something started, " then it'll do much to educate and

it'll not be the first time it's been a matter of discussion as ALL the

aromatherapy lists discuss it from time to time.

> I was wondering if someone can reply off list as to some of the things >

that Young does or promotes as to why others in the AT community > have

some not-so-good things to say about him? I don't want to offend > people that

use these oils so please reply to me personally so that > something doesn't get

started. Thanks, Doyon

Young and Young Living as an organization are the same. But Young Living

oils and Young Living distributors are a different subject. Mr. Young

claims to be a ND, but he has no doctorate degree from any recognized

institution of higher learning - he has one he bought for a few hundred dollars

from one

of the many " non-accredited " companies who will sell you a degree .. pick the

one you want, no wait, no exams, just send in your check or money order. The

title " Doctor " is illegal to use in Young's home state of Utah because it

was a mail order degree. So, he uses the title in states that don't license

Naturopathic Doctors. It is a meaningless title and he continues to use it in

order to give his theories and practices more credentials. He is therefore, a

phoney!

He makes many other claims about his life that have been proven false, they

are pure marketing hype and pure bovine excrement, but still, YL followers see

him as a guru - MR. Young uses religion to help keep the followers following -

not too different from Reverend of town or Koresh of the

Branch ians. Some people need a charismatic like GY to lead them,

regardless

of the fact that he is a charlatan.

He claimed connections with famous professors and other accomplishments here

in Turkey until I investigated, talked with folks here, learned it was

embellished hype and openly published the results to numerous lists. He then

decided

to drop the Turkish connection from his biography.

Young Living as an organization is dominated by and Young. It

appears that company policy is make money in any way you can - as fast as you

can -

and truth is not necessary to accomplish these ends. In my opinion, we're

talking about ethics here - or lack thereof.

There are thousands of testimonials that would curl your hair - not mine (I'm

almost bald) but most people's hair. Claims of ridiculous cures and promoting

use of massive quantities of oils in a totally unsafe manner. The more you

use, the more you buy. YL promotes unsafe use of neat EOs directly on the skin.

They teach their downlines to do this and give them NO TRAINING in safety or

proper and responsible use of essential oils. If you talk to some of the more

" affected " YL'ers who are really into the cult mentality, they will act as if

you are being sacriligious when you question any of MR. Young's unsafe

practices.

This hype could prevent people from seeking competent medical help for

serious illnesses - they fall back on the false hope given them by YL. Bones

don't

realign with the use of EOs, scoliosis does not cure itself, but YL teaches

that both can be cured by their " Raindrop Therapy, " which involves application

of

massive amounts of neat EOs. Anyone postponing or avoiding conventional

treatment for this disease by treating it with essential oils is looking for

trouble - but YL promotes this!! And they claim that people who don't believe in

Raindrop Therapy don't believe because they don't believe in " Chi, " which is

simply horse crap.

A member of the aromatherapy list posted this: " *** pray that you will not be

among the large number who received festering and/or infected skin ulcers up

and down their spine as a result of having neat, irritating oils dripped up

and down their spine and then covered with a towel to prevent the normal

evaporation *** when you spine turns red, in spots, from irritation and starts

to

burn, that you aren't told. " oh, that's the virus escaping " *** direct quote

from

one of my new clients.

Those of us who decry the raindrop theory, as well as most of MR. Young's

ideas do it because of the potentially dangerous misuse of the oils we

love...and

the abuse of innocents looking for solutions.

Just two weeks ago I received a letter from an elderly gentleman... asking if

my helichrysum essential oil is safe to drop into the ears... because he had

been told that neat helichrysum essential oil, dropped into the ear, could cur

e his wife's lifelong nerve deafness. He came to me because his YL distributor

had been told that there is no helichrysum essential oil available any more,

it's only available in blends. Of course it's available, from many excellent

oil suppliers. ** I told him that there was NO evidence and probably no

likelyhood that ANY essential oil could cure permanent nerve damage. And that NO

essential oil was safe to use, neat, in the ears. I was so very very angry with

the " nice man from his church " who told him this that I wanted to throw

something. This goes far beyond dishonesty ... this is truly dispicable ..

creating

hope and belief this way. " UNQUOTE

Mr. Young has been arrested for practicing medicine without a license. Now he

protects himself - he puts the unknowing YL distributors in the lion's cage.

His brochures " Officially " tell the distibutors to be nice and be careful, but

his meetings and lectures tell a different story. The distributors are

" independent " and have a contract that says so - and they sign that they'll not

prescribe for ails and illness - but then they're sent out to do this. If the

hammer falls, GY and friends will escape and leave the honest, but gullible

distributor to face the music.

A member of the AT list recently posted on a YL seminar he attended: " In this

seminar I found out that the only person in the US who could read a GC was

Young, and you can make chemically equivalent helichrysum by mixing three

unrelated EO's together..and that if you dab incense on a skin tumor it

will fall off...forget the regular docs and get out the EO's..only YL oils are

pure.. There was more .. Should anyone have a chance to attend one of

these....do! I promise you awe and amazement..... " UNQUOTE

Another posted: " *** there is a difference between reasonable profit/

business ethics and blatantly taking advantage of a person's religious beliefs

for

profit *** between honest business representation and

misbranding/misrepresenting, either of products or yourself * complaints we have

seen about and

Young from x-employees, x- distributors, x-family and x-business partners

have certainly been frequent enough for one to take pause before doing business

with this company. Just because other companies seek profit does not negate

the deep questions regarding business ethics and unsafe practices that seem to

continually pop up regarding Young Living. *** As for lawsuits AGAINST ,

and YL, there must be a lot more than hearsay out there because there seems

to be an incredible amount of litigation against them at the moment, from

many of the x-ers that I mention above. " UNQUOTE

Another posted: " I am writing this post primarily to notify all YL

distributors that a civil lawsuit has been filed in the state of Utah, in the

city of

Provo *** on behalf of the rightful owners and majority stockholders of Young

Living, Washington and California residents, naming Young and Young as

participants in fraud and unlawful conveyance. The lawsuit alleges that

and stole (conveyed) the corporation from the stockholders and rightful

investors and owners. Knowingly and with intent. Some of these stockholders are

elderly, with health problems. I rather doubt that the YL corporation has

told all you good folks about this. You might ask them about it. " UNQUOTE

I'll mention here that Young's brother elected to leave the YL

organization and is now putting together an organization that he says will

practice

ethics - I hope he does this and from what I know now, I believe he will - but I

promise to report on him if he doesn't! These folks will never sue me - I've

challenged them to do so but as you know, folks in glass houses ... etc., and

they cannot shut me up otherwise!

As for the quality of YL essential oils - I believe they have improved

considerably in the last year as they are now testing some/all? of them, but

prior

to that, they were selling some oils that were allegedly from plants that don't

produce EO and in a few cases, their oils had been tested by others and found

to be totally unfit and unsafe. The quality improved because folks stayed on

their butts like ugly on a wart hog - you don't get results by being a passive

wimp!

The issue of price is a personal concern, but if you understand the workings

of a multi-level marketing scheme, you will know that prices MUST be too high

in order to feed all the hands being held out for a cut on the efforts of

other sellers in the chain. A post was made on the AT list concerning this too,

plus the matter of trust:

" I agree about comparing oils with oils, getting to know their subtle

different personalities.... but human personalities do come into the mix, since

I

expect the same honesty and fairness in business I expect from personal

relationships. If you can't trust the honesty and integrity of the person you

are

buying your oils from on one level, can you really trust them when it comes to

honesty about the oils they proffer? " UNQUOTE

A researcher on the AT list wrote: " Are YL still including blue tansy in some

of their blends? I remember that at one point I checked a website and found

some blends, especially ones for pain relief like Paneaway, which contained

unsafe oils such as blue tansy and wintergreen or sweet birch. They to my mind,

were not what I'd call safe oils. "

Thousands of posts have made on YL in just the last 2.5 years I have followed

the lists - the anti-YL posts are many and those that present an argument for

YL are few and even then, they are nothing more than emotional ramblings.

There is an archive where one can view this info at:

http://www.TheGuideToAromatherapy.com/ylfiles.html Accept or discard the info

provided, but keep smiling

..... Butch www.AV-AT.com

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Graham Sorenson

Wales, U.K.

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