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If you’re like me, the question is: where do I get started to try more essential oils in my everyday life? Can I buy an easy aromatherapy kit or multi-use pack that’ll help me take the plunge?
Which essential oil kit should you buy to get started?
The first decision I had to make was on how I planned to use my essential oils. If you’re hoping to diffuse essential oils into the air around your home, you may want to look at a starter kit that includes the electronic diffuser. If you’re just looking for topical applications such as inhaling, using essential oils in your baths or other beauty products, or maybe some aromatherapy massage, then a starter kit with just the oils (and some nice oil blends) will do the trick just fine for you. If you’ve decided you’d prefer having a diffuser right away, jump right down to the options for starter kits with a diffuser section – or if you’re really brave, start an essential oil membership with one of these programs.
5 essential oil starter kit options without a diffuser
I’m currently doing research on Young Living essential oils, dōTERRA oils, Plant Therapy, and Edens Garden essential oils and their respective starter kits and oil sets. Most aromatherapy kits usually include a few single oil fragrances along with some synergy blends. This is quite handy as blends (also known as synergies) have been mixed by professionals to achieve a specific effect – for example muscle relief or getting to sleep easier. This can be a nice way to get started with oils as you might not like the scent of just one particular oil on its own. Or maybe you do – and then those kits usually also include popular oils such as Lavender, Lemon and Peppermint. I have a nice chart and comparison on this below.
Young Living Everyday Oils – $159.95*
Young Living everyday oils kit
This essential oil starter kit is designed to address most areas of everyday natural well-being for you and your family. It includes a good variety of oils so that if you’re looking for an ailment for something “everyday”, like a cut or a scrape, or a headache, you already have the oils for that ready!
The Young Living essential oils kit includes 10 essential oils of 5 ml each: 4 single oils and 6 synergy blends:
4 Single Oils 5 ml each: Lavender, Peppermint, Lemon, Frankincense
6 Synergy Blends 5 ml each: Panaway, Thieves, Valor, Purification, Peace & Calming, Joy
If you’d like to learn more about Young Living as a brand, please find a full Young Living Essential Oils review here.
Check Out The YL Starter Kit on Amazon
dōTERRA Introductory Essentials Kit + Spa Kit – ca. $22* + $68* = ca. $90*
doTerra introductory essential oils kit
Finding a dōTERRA essential oils starter kit with about 10 oils was a bit of a challenge. They do have their enrollment kit (more on this below) that has a great combination of oils to get started, but outside of this offer I had to piece together some of their other oils packages to make up a comparable shopping option to the Young Living Everyday Oils kit above. This comparable now includes 7 oils: 3 single oils of 5 ml each (from the Introductory Essentials Kit) and 4 synergy blend oils of 15 ml each. (from the doTerra Spa Kit).
I picked the dōTERRA Spa kit to add to my start-up shopping list because it is just a simple selection of synergy blends to start using in your every day life.
3 Single Oils as in the Introductory Essentials Kit 5 ml each: Lavender, Peppermint, Lemon
4 Synergy Blends in the Spa Kit 5 ml each: Serenity, Balance, Citrus Bliss, Deep Blue
Plant Therapy 7 & 7 Set = $59.95
The Plant Therapy 7 & 7 set is an excellent starter kit for the whole family.
The 7 & 7 essential oil starter kit is perfect for anyone starting out. It includes common the staples that should be in any essential oil collection anyways (like Lavender, Tea Tree and Lemon), and it also includes popular synergies such as “Relax”, “Germ Fighter” or “Energy”.
The beauty of this starter kit is that you have a few varieties of essential oils in there that are part of the Plant Therapy KidSafe® line. This means that in one shot, you can get an essential oil kit that the whole family can try, not just you! After you’ve tried these powerful and popular oils, please let us know how you liked them!
7 Single Oils: Lavender, Tea Tree, Sweet Orange, Peppermint, Lemon, Cinnamon Cassia, Eucalyptus Globulus
7 Synergy Blends: Germ Fighter, Immune Aid, Tranquil, Invigor Aid, Sensual, Relax, Energy
Or if you prefer to shop direct, Plant Theapy’s website.
Edens Garden Everyday Essential Oils Set – ca. $80*
A natural medicine cabinet of powerful essential oils.
The kit from Edens Garden includes a total of 12 essential oils of 10 ml each and seem to offer great value for your money. The Edens Garden kit includes 5 single oils and 7 blends.
5 Single Oils 10 ml each: Frankincense (serrata), Lavender, Lemon, Peppermint, Tea Tree
7 Blends 10 ml each: Breathe Easier, Cleaning, Fighting Five (previously known as Four Thieves), Muscle Relief, Purify, Stress Relief, Uplift
If you’re looking for an essential oils kit with a great variety of oils that you can use for different purposes in your daily life, this one here would definitely be my test winner.
Or if you prefer to shop direct, Edens Garden’s website.
Here’s the easy “Just Oils” Overview
| Young Living | dōTERRA | Plant Therapy | Edens Garden | |
| Everyday Oils | Introductory Essentials Kit + Spa Kit | 7 & 7 Set | Best of the Best | |
| Price | ca.$159.95* | ca. $22* + $68* = $90* | $59.95 | ca. $80 |
| Single Oils | 4 single oils – 5 ml each | 3 single oils – 5 ml each | 7 single oils – 10 ml each | 5 single oils – 10 ml each |
| Lavender | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Peppermint | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lemon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Frankincense | Yes | x | x | Yes |
| Tea Tree | x | x | Yes | Yes |
| Sweet Orange | x | x | Yes | x |
| Cinnamon | x | x | Yes | x |
| Eucalyptus | x | x | Yes | x |
| Blends | 6 blends – 5 ml each | 4 blends – 5 ml each | 7 blends – 10 ml each | 7 blends – 10 ml each |
| Panaway | Serenity | Germ Fighter | Breathe Easier | |
| Thieves | Balance | Immune Aid | Cleaning | |
| Valor | Citrus Bliss | Tranquil | Fighting Five | |
| Purification | Elevation | Invigor Aid | Muscle Relief | |
| Peace & Calming | Sensual | Purify | ||
| Joy | Relax | Stress Relief | ||
| Energy | Uplift | |||
| Total ml | 50 ml | 40 ml | 140 ml | 120 ml |
Options for essential oil starter kits including a diffuser
Membership Programs
Aka: to enrol or not to enrol
If you’re looking for an essential oil starter kit that combines the most popular fragrances and also gives you an electronic essential oil diffuser, additional goodies and information at an unbeatable price, the only real deals available make you enrol in one of these companies’ membership program at the same time.
I personally haven’t taken that pluge yet, so I’m fully unbiased.
With membership programs, you do get some pretty cool benefits, but of course it’s that initial hurdle of paperwork, reading through agreements, and all that jazz rather than just having a simple, no-commitment starter kit available for purchase.
Young Living Membership Program & Starter Kit – ca. $150*
Young Living essential oils starter kit Basic Plus
When signing up for a Young Living membership, you have a choice of a variety of starter kits. With this particular choice (the “Basic Plus”), you’ll get the Young Living Everyday Oils collection, which includes 10 essential oils of 5 ml each: 4 single oils and 6 synergy blends:
4 Single Oils 5 ml each: Lavender, Peppermint, Lemon, Frankincense
6 Synergy Blends 5 ml each: Panaway, Thieves, Valor, Purification, Peace & Calming, Joy
As extras, you’ll get a 5 ml bottle of Stress Away, and an AromaGlide roller fitment. Additional samplers included in this essential oil starter kit include two Lavender Sample Packets, two Peppermint Sample Packets, two Peace & Calming Sample Packets, two Thieves Sample Packets, Sample Packet Business Cards and two NingXia Red 2-oz. samples.
Your reading materials will include the Welcome to Young Living booklet, essential oils at a glance user’s guide, product guide, S.E.E.D. Sharing for Success booklet, distributor agreement and distributor resource guide.
You can sign up for a Young Living membership here. Please note that I am not a member, associate or distributor for Young Living, so just go ahead and enroll without entering anything for the “I have been referred to by another member” part.
dōTERRA Membership Program & Essential Oil Starter Kit – ca. $275*
doTerra essential oils starter kit
At membership sign-up, you can choose from a variety of starter kits available to you. I picked this one here to review because it included a set of 10 oils plus an electronic essential oil diffuser – just like the Young Living starter kit.
The oils you’ll get are:
6 Single Oils 15 ml each: Lavender, Peppermint, Lemon, Melaleuca, Oregano, Frankincense
4 Blends 15 ml each except for the Deep Blue, which is 5ml: Breathe®, DigestZen®, On Guard®, Deep Blue® (5 ml)
You’ll also get the Wellness Advocate Introductory Packet, which includes an introductory DVD, a getting started training DVD, dōTERRA Opportunity brochure, essential skincare product brochure, product guide, essential oil usage chart, Lifelong Wellness product brochure, lid label set, welcome letter, compensation and bonus information, and enrollment forms.
You can sign up for a dōTERRA Membership Program here. Again, please note that I am not a dōTERRA member and you can just go ahead and register there on your own.
Edens Garden Membership Program
Edens Garden oils do not offer a membership program, but they have a variety of awesome starter kits available on Amazon.com.
There is no Edens Garden membership program available, and they do not produce and sell their own essential oil diffusers either. The sole focus of the Edens Garden company is on producing essential oils, synergy blends, and some beautiful essential oil gift sets. For more insight, please also read my full Edens Garden essential oils review.
Ready to plunge in?
How you’d like to get started with essential oils is up to you now, whether you choose to just try the oils for starters, or plunge right in with a membership program and an electric diffuser unit. If you have any questions, always feel free to contact me or let me know in the comments below!
xoxo,
* Prices as on Amazon.com at the time of writing and subject to change without notice.