Why Choose Ylang Ylang Essential Oil?
Ylang Ylang is a complex oil that is renowned for its calming properties. It can be used on its own, but is often a key part of calming blends. Ylang Ylang is nourishing to the skin and hair, and some have found that its calming benefits help them to maintain normal blood pressure. It is a renowned aphrodisiac, as well! Ylang Ylang is used in the perfume industry as well as in the food and flavour industry. When you open the bottle, you may recognize the aroma as the distinctive flavour of pink bubblegum!
Watch this video to see how doTERRA sources Ylang Ylang essential oil:
Where Can We Find Ylang Ylang?
Ylang Ylang is in many dōTERRA products. We would expect to see it in calming blends, but there it is in Deep Blue as well as in Clary Calm! Those two blends are geared towards pain relief and hormone balance, respectively, so that gives us a hint at some of Ylang Ylang's less well-known properties.
FUN FACTS
Ylang Ylang tree must grow for three to four years before harvesting can begin. Harvesters pick the flowers only once they have matured, and they don't all mature at the same time. This means that trees are harvested several times during the season.
Ylang Ylang is a unique oil in that it has several different grades: Ylang Ylang 1, 2, 3, “extra,” and “complete.” Each of these grades contains different aromatic molecules that come out of the flowers during different stages of the distillation process. The "complete" oil has the longest distillation time, and contains all of the aroma compounds found in the flower.
Perfumers primarily prefer to use oil from the early stages of distillation, but doTERRA requires the “complete” grade to ensure that all compounds from the Ylang Ylang flowers are included in the oil.