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ESSENTIAL EDGE

THE

NEWS OF THE WORLD LEADER IN ESSENTIAL OILS

Volume 4.4 April 2014

Aloha! Winners Party Hawaiian-Style Founder’s Message YOUNG LIVING IS the world leader in essential oils, and now there is a company-wide movement to create a culture to match our products: a world-class culture focused on changing lives and making a difference throughout the world.

There is a spirit of unity that crosses lines and teams and brings every Young Living member together for a cause greater than money, status, or rank advancement. In short, we are one big Young Living team of oilers and caretakers, of dream chasers and achievers.

We are a unique, worldwide community of individuals who come together to give back not only to make the people of the earth better but to also make the earth better. From remote areas in northern Idaho to bustling hubs in Hong Kong, the Young Living lifestyle rolls on. That lifestyle is built upon principles of abundance for everyone. It’s about furthering a cause so much bigger than ourselves and our bank accounts. It’s about making real changes in our lives so that we can promote real changes in the lives of everyone who happens to cross our path.

My dream is to have a unified Young Living team where we learn from each other, share with each other, and build each other. This is our inspired movement, and we are in it together.

This year marks Young Living’s 20th anniversary, which we are going to celebrate with great excitement at our International Grand Convention in June. We have many new and exciting tools, products, and other great surprises.

Come and join us for all of the excitement!

OUR MEMBERS RECENTLY took part in the Young Living Hawaii Adventure—and they had the time of their lives!

The event capped off the first-ever Drive to Win promotion, in which members earned points for growing their businesses and spreading Young Living’s message. Members who placed in the top 60 were treated to a unique visit to Hawaii’s shores, including a special sandalwood farm experience with company Founder and CEO D. Gary Young!

Attendees began the five-day event on February 26 with a special NingXia Nitro™ bar mingle at the Hilton Waikoloa Village hotel. The next day they were treated to an exclusive live coaching session with Dave Braun and Troy Amdahl, best-selling authors and founders of Oola. Young Living recently partnered with Oola in order to promote wellness through balance and growth, and Dave and Troy shared tips on how to achieve this amidst life’s many distractions.

On February 28, members participated in a special trip to the sandalwood farm with Gary Young. Gary showed them the farm where royal Hawaiian sandalwood trees are grown and harvested to produce Young Living’s precious Sandalwood essential oil. Members were even able to participate in the reforestation of the sandalwood trees as part of Young Living’s efforts to promote more sustainable practices in the area.

The final day of the event, March 1, was full of fun around the island as members participated in several Young Living-sponsored activities. They had the option to take part in a snorkeling excursion in Kealakekua Bay, enjoy the breathtaking tropical forest on a zip line tour in North Kohala, or take a scenic horseback ride at the Dahana Ranch.

The big winners then departed Hawaii to return home, rejuvenated and refreshed. All were glad they participated in the tremendous Drive to Win promotion and Hawaii Adventure!

Even if you weren’t able to participate in this trip to Hawaii, adventure still awaits you as you work to spread Young Living’s message, grow your business, and prepare for your next opportunity to win!

Live the Ritz: Diamond For a Day HAVE YOU EVER wondered what the International Grand Convention is like for a top Young Living leader? Find out for yourself through our first-ever Diamond For a Day promotion and experience the scintillating benefits of VIP treatment!

In this promotion, members will have the opportunity to compete for one of 20 special convention VIP packages.

Winners will network with top Young Living leaders and live like a Diamond at the 20th anniversary convention— the Young Living event of the year! If you are a Star or Senior Star, Executive, Silver, Gold, or Platinum member, you have between now and May 31 to energise your team and grow your business to win a prize package that includes: • • • • • •

VIP access and seating to most convention events Free convention registration (a $269 USD value) Young Living-branded iPad Air (a $600 USD value) $500 product credit (a $500 wholesale USD value) New-product gift basket (a $350 USD value) On-site registration priority

The top four participants from each of the five ranks who have the greatest percentage of average OGV growth during the promotion period will win! The participant from any rank who has the greatest average

OGV growth percentage overall will win additional prizes, including onstage recognition at the convention and a Best of Salt Lake City package (up to a $3,000 USD value) that includes limo service, fine dining, a hotel upgrade, $1,000 shopping spree, and more!

All members in the eligible ranks will be entered automatically in the Diamond For a Day promotion, based on February’s paid-as rank. Discover how fun, rewarding, and possible it is to succeed at any level with Young Living!

Visit youngliving.com/convention to learn more about this exciting promotion.

Shine Like a Diamond — at the —

2014 International Grand Convention

Visit youngliving.com/convention for more details.

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Renew, Reunite at the Spring Reforestation THE ANNUAL YOUNG Living Spring Reforestation at our Highland Flats Tree Farm is here! Each year at the advent of spring, we reconnect in northern Idaho to give back to nature and to ourselves through a time of renewal based around the Seed to Seal® process.

This year, April 6–May 2 is your opportunity to participate firsthand in the planting methods used to help ensure that Young Living oils are the purest available. During the Spring Reforestation, you will work shoulder to shoulder with other members to replace the blue spruce, Western red cedar, and other trees that were removed during the Winter Harvest and to promote sustainability at our beautiful Highland Flats Tree Farm.

“We are proud to allow our members to see sustainability in action,” said Jay Anderton, Young Living VP of global farms and projects. “Until you experience one of these events for yourself, it is difficult to understand the effort, care, and passion that goes into the Seed to Seal process. We hope you will join us this spring for the reforestation tree planting project at the Highland Flats Tree Farm.”

At the reforestation, you can look forward to: • Playing a vital role in the creation of our Idaho Blue Spruce and Balsam Fir essential oils • Participating in Young Living’s sustainability efforts by replacing previously harvested trees • Learning time-tested planting methods and reconnecting with a simpler, more natural way of life • Discovering a new appreciation for Young Living’s commitment to quality and authenticity • Making new friends and lasting memories

Gary Young recently said, “I am really grateful to our members who have come from all over the world to participate in our reforestation events.

“As Young Living continues to grow and expand, we need a sustainable yield of trees and plants. The only way to secure a steady supply for the future, and for our children, is by farming and reforestation efforts such as this one.”

The effect of reforestation projects is massive. Consider that from 2010–2013, more than 300,000 trees have been planted at Young Living farms in Idaho and Ecuador.

The cost to attend the spring reforestation project is $150 per person per week in the general housing or $225 per week for a two-person room. To fit growing demand, we have expanded this event to four six-day periods.

Please visit youngliving.com/springreforestation to learn more about this event and to register.

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Young Living Silver Winner of Sweden GO Getaway!

(U.S. Facebook promotion)

“Young Living has been such a blessing to my family because I have been able to facilitate a change to a healthier lifestyle that will benefit them today and for years to come. I am laying the foundation now for my children to lead healthy, abundant lives. My family is healthier because of the oils, and the friendships that I have made through my Oily Families group have been an unexpected and welcomed bonus.

“I am beyond excited to be going to Sweden to get to see and be part of the growth of Young Living in a new way. I have never been overseas, so this is truly the trip of a lifetime for me! I am so grateful for this opportunity.”

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Join us in Gothenburg on Saturday 26th April for the Grand Opening of Sweden!

Director of Global Education and U.S. Sales, Scott Johnson and Royal Crown Diamond, Marcella Vonn Harting will both be speaking at this unmissable event!

Visit youngliving.com to purchase your tickets!

Gary Young: A Somalian Adventure This is the third of an expected five-part series highlighting real events from Gary’s frankincense exploration in Somalia, written by Gary himself.

THE NEXT DAY, under military escort, we ventured outside the compound to visit a local warehouse that brokered and shipped frankincense and myrrh resin out of Somalia. When we arrived, they were cleaning the resin and preparing it for export. I noticed that almost everyone was chewing the resin as they worked.

It was interesting to see that here in another country, the home of Boswellia Gary in the village market with guards and Boswellia frereana vendors. The president of frereana, what I have been telling everyone since my time in Oman about the Somalia dispatched special forces as bodyguards for Gary. resin and why I created Slique Gum, my frankincense chewing gum.

We went to visit two private schools that were supposed to be better than the public schools in the city of Bosaso with a population of 500,000 people, and they did not even have electricity. So naturally, there were no computers, no biology labs, no sports, no music, and no chemistry. However, all the children were learning English with the hope of one day leaving this school for a better education, a job, and a better life. I asked to visit a community school and was told, “NO, we are ashamed to have you see our public schools.”

The next day I went to the shipping port where Queen Hatshepsut’s royal navy landed when she was looking for an inland passage to the headwaters of the Nile River. Then 500 years later, King Abdulla continued to export frankincense to Egypt. His oldest daughter, Queen Arawelo, then became heir to the throne and continued to export frankincense and myrrh in trade with the Queen of Sheba in Cana, Yemen.

Today, 3,000 years later, the No. 1 commodity for export still remains the legendary frankincense. Goats, sheep, and camels make up the second export market share.

Tuesday morning Yusuf informed me, “The President has dispatched more soldiers for our protection, but it will still be safer if we go out under the cover of dark in the early morning around 1 or 2 a.m., so be ready.” page 2

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Young Living: The World Leader in Essential Oils and Distillation During its 20-year history, Young Living Essential Oils has proven again and again to be the world leader in essential oils. With the installation in 2014 of a state-of-the-art distillery at its Highland Flats Tree Farm in Naples, Idaho, D. Gary Young ushered in a new era in distillation for the production of essential oils and proved that obstacles are no match for his illuminated vision.

The new distillery is the latest innovation in distillery technology, including an advanced computer program that monitors the distillation chamber and condenser and separator temperatures and pressures, starting with the steam injection flow into the extraction chamber to the steam exit and flow temperature levels through the condenser to the separator.

The first critical factor is the steam flow volume, which determines the temperature and ability to ramp the steam flow at the precise time to maintain sufficient temperature increase as the oil molecules travel up through the chamber for proper extraction without creating homogenisation or reflux that will result in loss of oil, which will compromise the quality. The steam-injection rate and volume are very critical during the entire process.

The second critical factor is to make sure that the condenser temperature is not too hot or too cold as it descends through 200 12-foot-long tubes to prevent fracturing of the molecules, which could change the chemistry and aroma.

Third, the temperature of the separator is critical because many plants require a different separation temperature. If the temperature is wrong, many of the fine molecules are lost that are important for therapeutic application, which is unimportant to the fragrance and food flavouring industry. With Gary’s new, innovative changes, we are now capturing up to 80 percent more of the fine molecules that are lost in normal distilling practices.

The computer monitors all systems and makes changes instantly when needed.

Manually, the operator may be monitoring, loading, or unloading a chamber and may not be able to make adjustments immediately, which could take several minutes to correct.

The fourth step will be to install cameras inside the swan neck to be able to watch the steam as it leaves the plant material carrying the oil into the condenser.

An app on Gary’s phone will allow him to monitor and control the distillation from any place in the world and will also enable him to teach new operators around the world.

This new, automated, state-of-the-art oil-extracting facility is the most advanced distilling system in the world today.

• For the first time, semitrucks can drive inside a heated building where the chips are unloaded and then packed into the two 21,000-litre extraction chambers.

• In 2014, two more extraction chambers will be installed for the 2015 harvest. One will be another 21,000-litre chamber for conifer distillation. The fourth will be an 8,500-litre chamber for the distillation of Idaho Tansy.

• The range of litres extracted from a single distillation is between 21 and 42 litres.

The volume of oil is dependent on the age of the tree and the branch growth. Older trees with less branch growth and more hard wood naturally produce less oil, and different conifer trees have a difference in their production.

• The new extraction chambers use 30 percent less fuel that the older extraction

Want to Stop Aging?

Spoil Your Hands

By Luba Vozar, PhD SPRING HAS ARRIVED! Now is the perfect time to rejuvenate your face, hands, and body and to become balanced with the reawakened nature that is blooming all around us. Your skin is a delicate and complex organ, and just as your body needs a regular fitness program to stay fit, your skin demands a consistent approach, too.

I often discuss essential steps to a healthy skin-care regimen for your face using Young Living products, but where are the first signs of aging? Look at the back of your hands. That’s it! Because there is little fat on the back of the hands, even a small amount of collagen or elastin breakage will have a visible effect.

Years of unprotected sun exposure will bring out brown spots that may also speed the aging process. By keeping your hands moisturised with a product such as Young Living’s wonderful Lavender Hand & Body Lotion, you can easily keep them looking and feeling healthy.

chambers. The new condenser system reduces the water consumption by 20 percent, and all water in the distillation process is recycled and never leaves the holding reservoir again, thus preserving our eco system.

• The truck bay is 85 feet long and 52 feet wide. It is fully insulated, with heated floors to melt snow and ice and remove the water in the chips for a better and greater distillation.

• The new distillery completely eliminates Gary’s nightly drive of 125 miles in the semitruck over the treacherous, winding roads covered with snow and ice to the distillery in St. Maries. Gary is safer, the distillation process is infinitely faster, and the oil production is spectacular. A dream come true.

The Highland Flats farm is an amazing place to visit. From distilling, to separating, to decanting/filtering, to bottling, the oils are transferred from stainless steel to glass containers and never touch hands before they are sealed and packaged for shipping.

Distillery operators say that distilling is both an art and a science. D. Gary Young combines research and science with 25 years of experience in engineering, designing, building, and operating 9 existing distilleries and 5 partner distilleries in different countries. In 2014, he is building one new distillery in Egypt and one in Somalia. All of these distilleries that Gary Young has built throughout the world on five continents are bringing forth great discoveries in modern-day distillation, making him the only person in history to distill on such a worldwide scale.

Consistency and increased control allow Young Living to further ensure the purity and quality of its world-class products.

The Seed to Seal process is Young Living’s trademark. This was first developed at the farm in Ecuador. Gary then took it to a higher level with the new distillery at Highland Flats. Gradually, all of the Young Living distilleries will be modified to match the new operation. The Utah farm is now under way for the same upgrades. With the new automation and the most advanced technology available, modernising the production process will be more efficient and effective than ever.

Gary’s vision is to be able to remotely monitor and control the distillation process in Young Living’s worldwide farms from his phone and global headquarters in Lehi, Utah.

Young Living has again raised the bar of excellence in the essential oil industry; and with its Seed to Seal process, it is without question the world leader in essential oils.

To give your hands more of the love they deserve, make sure to relieve the tension they carry and boost circulation with a gentle hand massage. Start by making the oil treatment below, and stroke the back of your hand, pushing up firmly toward the wrist and gliding back gently. Move on to the fingers and squeeze each finger all over. After tension is relieved in the fingers, massage the palm of your hand from fingers to wrist by pushing into the palm with the heel of your other hand.

Skin-care questions for Luba? E-mail her at beautytips@youngliving.com.

Ideal hand massage: Combine 5–6 drops of

Sandalwood, Lavender, Patchouli, Myrrh, or Stress Away™ with V-6™ Vegetable Oil Complex. After massage, finish with the Young Living hand and body lotion of your choice.

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Young Living’s World News AUSTRALIA

The Hormone Health for Families tour in March was a huge success, with recordbreaking attendance in every city! We hope to continue this growth at future Young Living Australia events.

The Bolt to the 20th Anniversary Bash promotional period ends April 30. We look forward to rewarding the welldeserved qualifiers with flights and/ or accommodations to attend the 2014 International Grand Convention in Salt Lake City! We would also like to wish all attending Australian members the best of luck in qualifying for the Diamond for a Day promotion. This is a fantastic opportunity to enjoy a VIP package at this year’s convention. Visit youngliving.com/ convention for more information.

JAPAN

Japan has just announced the amazing Vacation Challenge to Italy promotion.

Those who qualify will receive free airfare and accommodations for an Italian vacation in March 2015. Moreover, the top 10 winners will receive several great prizes, including a new car with an aroma diffuser for the top winner, as well as free trips to the International Grand Convention, harvest events, and more.

PERU

Young Living Peru will begin its first training tour this month, beginning April 3 in Cusco. The tour will feature presentations about Young Living, the compensation plan, and the Raindrop

Technique®.

In late April the region will launch its Starter Kit, which will guide new members through the path to leadership and how to best grow their Young Living business.

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Southeast Asia is indeed blessed with so many leaders visiting from international markets. Royal Crown Diamond Michael McDanel came back to the region, bringing a wealth of information about creating a lifestyle of advantages to members in Singapore and Malaysia.

The next big event is Young Living 360°, where we will feature valuable knowledge on Young Living products and the business opportunity. Keynote speakers will include Crown Diamond Frances Fuller and Diamond Adam Green.

The Singapore office has also launched a shipping promotion for Indonesia, which allows Indonesian members to order directly from Singapore at subsidised shipping rates. If you have members or contacts in Indonesia and would like more information, please send an e-mail to indonesia@youngliving.com.

CANADA

Young Living Canada recently celebrated its one-year anniversary with an event in Toronto. Canada’s growth over the past year has been nothing short of amazing, and we attribute this success to the strong members in the market and the drive they have to share Young Living with all of those around them.

Upcoming Global Events

We look forward to what our second year has in store and the new heights we will reach as we look to fulfill Gary Young’s vision of taking the oils into every home in the world.

Beauty School Europe April 5 and 12

Spring Reforestation April 6–May 2

EUROPE

Easter Eggstravaganza

Young Living Europe is thrilled to have had more signups than ever before this past February! The continuous efforts of our members are encouraged by the through-the-roof sales of our wonderful new Starter Kits!

We have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Luba Vozar to two exclusive events in April in Austria and Germany. Luba will be hosting the first-ever Beauty School in Europe. Her in-depth knowledge and brilliant presentation skills will make unforgettable events!

The grand opening of Sweden is April 26! This is a fantastic opportunity for anybody interested in building a business in one of the most prosperous regions in Europe. We are proud to welcome Royal Crown Diamond, Marcella Vonn Harting and Young Living’s Director of Global Education and Sales, Scott Johnson, to this milestone event, where they will share their invaluable product knowledge and business skills.

We have also announced the date of the UK grand opening, causing huge excitement in Europe. Plan on joining us September 20 in London for this historic and exciting event!

April 19 Mona, UT

Sweden Grand Opening April 26

Raindrop Training April 5 Nashville, TN April 26 Atlanta, GA

Introductory Meetings

April (TBD) with D. Gary Young Lima, Peru April 4–6 with D. Gary Young Total Health Expo Toronto, CAN A Day With Gary Young April 12 Warwick, RI April 15 Chicago, IL April 22 Los Angeles, CA (Spanish) April 25 San Juan, PR

APRIL 2014 PROMOTIONS

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Kickstart your Spring with NingXia Red, Young Living’s supercharged fruit drink! Combining the extraordinary wolfberry superfruit with 100% pure essential oils, this delicious drink provides a powerful nutrient boost to help sustain energy levels, combat free radicals and deliver natural, low glycemic energy.

NingXia Red is powered by an essential oil blend of orange, yuzu, lemon, and tangerine, specially chosen for their healthsupporting benefits and flavour profiles. Blueberry, aronia, cherry, pomegranate, and plum juices are also added to further supplement phytonutrient levels.

Spend 250 PV and also receive an additional £12.50 (€15) product credit!

For all current promotions and terms and conditions, please visit: youngliving.com

This offer is only available in April 2014. Maximum of 1 qualifying order per member. While stocks last. Cannot be ordered with Essential Rewards points.

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Spend 195 PV and receive a box of 30 NingXia Red Singles