Essential Oil Quality

To ensure we consistently provide our customers with the purest essential oils, e3 works with an independent lab that uses all available techniques to test for purity and quality.

Certified Organic vs Verified Quality:

Organic certification can be valuable, but it does not automatically guarantee purity or therapeutic quality. Many small farms that produce exceptional essential oils follow natural growing practices, yet cannot afford the cost of formal organic certification.

At e3, we focus on verified purity and authenticity. Each lot of essential oil is tested by an independent laboratory using Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS).

Gas Chromatography (GC), Gas Liquid with (GLC), Mass Spectrometry (MS):

GC or GLC: Gas Chromatography or Gas Liquid Chromatography is a measurement tool that is able to vaporize each molecule of the essential oil and quantify the percentage of the constituent present. It DOES NOT tell us what that constituent is. The percentage information is the area under the peak represented on a graph; while the peaks represent the individual constituent. (Individual constituents identified by MS testing)
MS: Mass Spectrometry determines the molecular mass of each molecule, identifying each constituent of the essential oil; each constituent being represented on the graph as a peak

GC/GLC & MS Testing performed to ensure quality and purity:

Essential Oils are free of pesticides
Essential Oils are free of synthetics
Essential Oils are unadulterated
Essential Oil chemical constituents are in the range necessary to be effective for intended use

(For routine documentation, we provide a Certificate of Analysis (COA) per lot. The COA confirms identity, quality, and conformance to specifications and is suitable for most wholesale, retail, and private-label needs.)

e3 also believes the following information should be listed on the label: