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The 13 Best Essential Oil Brands
Brands we trust to make your home smell amazing
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With more essential oil brands to choose from than ever before, we did the research for you. We looked at a wide variety of essential oil companies, comparing different brands based on their product selections, quality of ingredients, third-party certifications, and pricing.
When choosing essential oils, you will find variations for different uses, such as diffuser blends (for aromatherapy or odor neutralization) vs. single-note oils (pure concentrates often for therapeutic, topical, or cleaning use), though some oils can be used for any use.
Top Picks
Plant Therapy at Planttherapy.com
Rocky Mountain Oils at Rockymountainoils.com
Edens Garden at Edensgarden.com
Garden of Life at Gardenoflife.com
Saje Natural Wellness at Saje.com
Aromatherapy Associates at Aromatherapyassociates.com
As a safety note for topical or bath use, some citrus oils, such as lemon and lime, are phototoxic, which means they may cause skin discolorations or burns if they are not diluted in proper carrier oils. As a precaution, always read the instructions on how to use a specific oil.
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Plant Therapy's wide selection is worth a sniff. These essential oils are sourced from reputed suppliers and are third-party tested and supported by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) reports, so you can be assured of their quality. Plant Therapy products are also Leaping Bunny certified cruelty-free. Some, but not all, of the essential oils are USDA-certified organic. Ultimately, the oil selection is unbeatable in value and quality.
Planet Therapy’s offerings cover the entire caboodle, including tailor-made kid-safe and Pup & Pony Safe selections. Apart from essential oil sets and samplers, you can buy body care and household items, and even essential oils in bulk at this one-stop site.
Plant Therapy sells direct to consumers, keeping prices competitive, and many oils are available for less than $10. If you’re not satisfied, you can return the oils, even after 90 days.
Plant Therapy Lavender Essential Oil
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Plant Therapy Sweet Orange Essential Oil
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Plant Therapy Balsam Fir Essential Oil
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Plant Therapy Lemon Essential Oil
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Rocky Mountain Oils retails pure, authentic, and unadulterated GC/MS tested and independently verified essential oils directly to customers in amber glass bottles. Darker bottles like these help preserve the oil's composition, says Jade Shutes, founder and director of education at The School for Aromatic Studies. The brand’s broad collection includes singles, blends, kits, organic oils, kid-safe oils, roll-ons, and other options—meaning there’s something for every kind of essential oil enthusiast.
Committed to sustainability, Rocky Mountain Oil uses sustainable and recyclable packaging materials and repurposes and donates unused products to minimize waste. Regular customers can benefit from the Rocky Mountain Oil rewards program, which earns you points on purchases and referrals.
Rocky Mountain Oils Geranium Essential Oil
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Rocky Mountain Oils Lemongrass Essential Oil
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Rocky Mountain Tea Tree Essential Oil
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Rocky Mountain Oils Peppermint Essential Oil
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Popular hair, skin, and body care brand Pura D’or is also home to an aromatherapy lineup. Working with professional certified aromatherapist Mikki Anderson, the limited selection of essential oils is ethically sourced from family-run farms and small distilleries.
The products are USDA certified organic, Leaping Bunny cruelty-free, and vegan. However, the brand hasn’t made quality test results available as other brands have.
While Pura D’or offers a few basic essential oils in 4-ounce bottles, such as tea tree, lemon, lavender, cedarwood, ylang ylang, and more, it’s the brand’s nifty and affordable essential oil kits that we really like. You can choose sets featuring 10 or 16 10-milliliter bottles of essential oils for dabbling in aromatherapy.
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Pura D’or Tea Tree Essential Oil
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Pura D’or Sweet Orange Therapeutic Grade Essential Oil
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Pura D'or Spearmint Essential Oil
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If you’ve popped into your local Target or Whole Foods, chances are you’ve seen Aura Cacia’s essential oils on the shelves. Aura Cacia has been a part of a member-owned co-op since it was founded in 1982, putting its employees, growers, and the community at the forefront of its operations.
Aura Cacia’s sustainably sourced oils are verified for purity with GC/MS testing, and they’re free of synthetic colors, fragrances, and preservatives.
The brand’s product selection boasts an impressive variety of single and blended oils and USDA-certified organic and premium oils, all starting at reasonable prices. You can also shop a collection of diffusers, mists, and bath and skin products for adults and kids.
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Aura Cacia Tranquility Essential Oil
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Aura Cacia Breezeway Essential Oil Mix
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Aura Cacia Creative Juice Pure Essential Oil Blend
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Grace Martin’s Edens Garden got its start in 2009. Partnering with global farmers and distilleries, in little over a decade, the brand has built an impressive portfolio of over 250 single oils and synergistic blends for you to choose from, for therapeutic use as well as aromatherapy.
The essential oils are ethically and sustainably sourced. They are also GC/MS batch-tested for quality, which is important to know as this proves they don’t contain synthetics, fragrances, fillers, or chemicals, says Marge Clark, owner of Nature's Gift Aromatherapyand author of “Essential Oils and Aromatics.” Apart from the broad array of medicinal and feel-good blends and products, Edens Garden gives you the option to create your own sets.
Edens Garden Chamomile German Essential Oil
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Edens Garden Basil Lemon Essential Oil
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Edens Garden Allspice Essential Oil
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Edens Garden Clementine Essential Oil
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A household name for self-care products and dietary supplements, Now Foods was founded by Elwood Richard in the 1960s to create affordable, high-quality nutritional products. Today, the brand’s vast catalog includes pure essential oils (though there are some exceptions, like the synthetic jasmine, which is labeled such), blends, and USDA organic-certified essential oils.
The brand’s in-house state-of-the-art laboratory and experts verify the findings of external quality tests. You can trust that the oils are non-GMO, cruelty-free, and vegan, and are sold through many retailers, including Amazon.
You can download the brand’s Purity Specification Guide to ferret out more information. Buying in bulk at discounted prices from essential oil vendors helps keep the oils affordable. You can also pick up no-frills diffusers, kits, and roll-ons.
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Siblings Sara Panton and Sean Panton sought an alternative to traditional home scents chock-full of toxins, so they bottled and labeled Vitruvi’s first few essential oil collections by hand. This effort blossomed into a design-forward brand that creates not only essential oils but also humidifiers, home air fresheners, and diffusers, including the highly stylish Vitruvi Porcelain Essential Oil Diffuser.
The brand’s essential oils are made with plant-based ingredients and are free of fillers, diluting oils, and synthetic fragrances. They’re sourced from over 20 countries, including France and Madagascar.
We love the elegant, minimal packaging for the vegan, cruelty-free essential oils. The bottles are UV-protected, printed using plant-based ink, and bundled in biodegradable packaging that can be recycled and reused.
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Vitruvi Cedarwood Essential Oil
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Vitruvi Bergamot Essential Oil
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When it comes to responsible business practices, nutritional supplement company Garden of Life ticks the right boxes. With a wide range of wellness products, the company carries relevant certifications such as B Corp and Carbon Neutrality. Though Garden of Life offers a small selection of essential oils, these products are USDA organic-certified, non-GMO, and vegan.
A great place to start is the brand’s essential oil starter kit, which features popular picks like lavender, peppermint, lemon, and tea tree essential oils. You can use these oils for a range of purposes, from meditation to body massage to DIY home products.
Garden of Life Pure Lemongrass Essential Oil
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Garden of Life Pure Lavender Essential Oil
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Garden of Life Pure Peppermint Essential Oil
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Garden of Life Essential Oils Kit
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Saje’s holistic and worry-free wellness ethos is behind its purposeful collection of essential oils and home (including cleaning kits), skin, and hair care products. Saje's essential oils are free from parabens, SLS, artificial colorants, synthetic fragrances, and fillers—all of which are supported by a GC/MS analysis.
Committed to sustainable business practices, a majority of Saje’s kits are made from recycled water bottles. Saje's oils and oil blends do run more expensive than most other essential oil brands, but the rave customer reviews and many different perks of these products make them worth the price, if you want to shop a brand committed to wellness and sustainability.
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When they first started practicing aromatherapy in the 1970s, Geraldine Howard and Sue Beechey fell in love with essential oils. Wishing to help others explore the sensorial world of essential oils, they opened the first Aromatherapy Associates store in 1985, specializing in handcrafted, intentional, and purposeful blends created by a master blender in the company’s London-based laboratory.
Aromatherapy Associates’ blends are made from sustainably sourced ingredients, such as lavender from the Alps. The oils are free from synthetic fragrances, artificial colors, sulfates, parabens, and mineral oil, and they aren’t tested on animals. Aromatherapy Associates is a certified B Corp, meaning there’s a special emphasis on people and the planet before profits.
Aromatherapy Associates Deep Relax Pure Essential Oil Blend
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Aromatherapy Associates Forest Therapy Pure Essential Oil Blend
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Aromatherapy Associates Rose Pure Essential Oil Blend
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DoTERRA is a multi-level marketing essential oil company and one of the bigger players in the marketplace, selling pure, responsibly sourced essential oils, albeit for a higher price. To assess the quality of its oils, doTERRA has instituted an internal standard of quality, the Certified Pure Tested Grade protocol, along with third-party testing.
The company’s repertoire of essential oils is vast, with hard-to-find scents, such as rose oil, where 10,000 rose blossoms are plucked to create 5 milliliters of precious oil priced at a pocket-emptying $367 (though there is a wholesale discount).
Apart from the oils alone, doTERRA offers a whole smorgasbord of offerings, including skin and hair care products, supplements, diffusers, and other accessories. Just note you'll need a membership to buy doTERRA's products.
doTERRA Wild Orange Essential Oil
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doTERRA Tea Tree Essential Oil
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doTERRA Lavender Essential Oil
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doTERRA Serenity Essential Oil
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Mountain Rose Herbs had humble beginnings as a herb retail shop and mail order company, but it now operates from a sprawling 12-acre campus in Eugene, Oregon. When shopping this brand, you’ll find essential oils backed by a slew of certifications. Mountain Rose Herbs carries credentials as a fair-trade organization with organic and non-GMO products, all of which are produced at a zero-waste facility. (Just note that not all of the brand’s essential oils are certified organic.)
The depth of the brand’s catalog spans not only essential oils but also teas, herbs, spices, bath and body products, and much more. We love the simplicity of the kits, such as the Lovers Essential Kit with five organic oils, including ylang ylang and Australian sandalwood.
If you’re in the mood to splurge, shop for the rare-to-find pure oils, such as Jasmine Absolute and Vanilla Absolute, which cost well over $1,000 for 4 ounces.
Mountain Rose Herbs Calming Essential Oil Blend
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Mountain Rose Herbs Citrus Blend Essential Oil
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Mountain Rose Herbs Grapefruit Essential Oil
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Mountain Rose Herbs Jasmine Absolute Essential Oil
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A well-priced, quality alternative to pricier brands, Revive keeps costs low by selling directly to customers through its website. The oils are wildcrafted, and Revive states that all are free from pesticides, additives, adulterants, fillers, synthetics, and dilutions, with a supportive GC/MS verification. You’ll find a solid selection of oil options, including kits and various bottle sizes.
Revive Essential Oils created its versions of popular blends as well as signature blends for you to pick from. An easy option is to pick up the starter kit, which includes 10 full-size bottles and an ultrasonic diffuser. Revive also offers a generous 100-day return policy, and you can return even opened bottles of essential oil for a full refund.
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How We Picked the Essential Oil Brands
We considered several factors while shopping for quality essential oils. In the absence of industry standards, we followed recommendations from Shutes, who suggests being on the lookout for these criteria when shopping:
- The common and scientific name of the botanical on the label
- Whether the method of production is specified on that label
- Where in the plant the oil has been extracted from (flowers, leaves, stems, roots, or fruits)
- The color of the bottle (amber, blue, or green is the best option)
- The brand’s commitment to sustainability
- The company's reputation
- What formats the oils or oil blends are sold in, such as only liquid or roll-on
What to Look For in an Essential Oil Brand
Clean Ingredients
A great place to start your search for quality essential oils is the list of ingredients. You can look at the ingredients used by specific brands or take a closer look at what’s inside an individual bottle. This is key, as it’ll allow you to determine exactly what the oil is made with.
Pure essential oils, which tend to be the most expensive, have nothing beyond the oil itself. However, many oils can come with surprises, like fillers, water, and additives. For the safest options, look for short ingredient lists and brands that offer full transparency around what’s inside every bottle of oil.
There are also several ways to determine whether your essential oil is high quality. “Place a drop of essential oil on a clean white sheet of blotting or watercolor paper. The essential oil should evaporate completely within a 24- to 48-hour period, leaving no stain (unless the essential oil is colored, as is the case with some citrus oils and German chamomile) or a reminiscent aroma,” says Shutes.
She adds that this basic test works well on highly volatile oils such as citrus oils, but not with viscous essential oils like vetiver and sandalwood. You can also add a drop of essential oil to water. “If the water becomes discolored or turns milky, then the oil has been diluted with water and an emulsifier has been used to keep the essential oil and water together,” she says.
Finally, Shutes recommends using your sense of smell. “Our sense of smell is often underrated as a tool in determining the quality of an essential oil, but it is perhaps the most powerful tool we have.” With practice, you can strengthen it. “For instance, first smell an excellent-quality essential oil, then immediately smell a questionable or low-quality essential oil. There should be a distinct difference in the quality and effect of the aroma,” she explains.
Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Testing
“Batch-specific gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) testing is essential to show that there is no adulteration and to highlight the purity of the tested essential oil,” says Clark of Nature's Gift Aromatherapy .
Rigorous and independent third-party GC/MS testing helps analyze the chemicals that constitute an essential oil; it also helps you understand what, exactly, goes into various oils and blends. Thus, look for the test reports so you can make an informed decision before purchasing.
Certifications You Can Trust
Certifications offer additional insight into essential oil brands and their products. For example, an organic certification such as USDA Organic indicates that an essential oil is made almost entirely from organic ingredients and free from fertilizers and pesticides.
Other third-party certifications to consider include PETA’s Vegan & Cruelty Free certification and Leaping Bunny Cruelty Free certification. Another common certification is Non-GMO, which means the essential oil was produced without genetic engineering and its ingredients are not derived from GMOs.
Don't Neglect Scent
Scent is no minor detail—it can make or break an essential oil! You want to seek out oils that give off pleasant fragrances and choose products that smell nice to your nose. But it’s not always as simple as choosing a singular scent that you already know and love.
Essential oils can be blended, either in a single bottle or inside a diffuser for a more customized mix. To get an idea of which scents complement each other, starter kits and prepackaged blends are a great place to start and seek out some inspiration.
The Checkout Counter
Before you check out, consider adding a diffuser to your cart. After testing dozens of essential oil diffusers, the Asakuki Rock Essential Oil Diffuser is our editors' favorite. As our favorite budget-friendly diffuser, the Homeweeks Aromatherapy Essential Oil Diffuser is small but powerful.
Or add essential oil to a compatible humidifier. After testing over 50 humidifiers, the Levoit Dual 150 Ultrasonic Cool Mist Humidifier is one of our favorite mist-style models that is essential oil-friendly.
Asakuki Rock Essential Oil Diffuser
With an impressively large water tank and high output, it'll have your home smelling wonderful with efficiency and ease.
Homeweeks Aromatherapy Essential Oil Diffuser
It diffuses your favorite oils silently, with two different mist modes so you can set your preferred level of fragrance.
Levoit Dual 150 Ultrasonic Cool Mist Humidifier
Instead of opting for a dedicated essential oil diffuser, this budget-friendly humidifier also disperses fragrance.
This waterless diffuser is easy to use and works continuously to disperse your favorite scent.
Why Trust The Spruce?
Jane Kim writes about all things home decor and trends on The Spruce. She personally loves using essential oils in her daily routine since she uses them to refresh her space. Her favorite home hack is dropping a couple drops of lavender or eucalyptus in her laundry before drying to make everything smell brighter.
Our Experts:
- Jade Shutes, founder and director of education at The School for Aromatic Studies, with more than 30 years of experience in aromatherapy
- Marge Clark, owner of Nature's Gift Aromatherapy, which she founded in 1995, and author of "Essential Oils and Aromatics"
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