Updated & Republished: Wild As The Wind, DoTERRA Or Neal's Yard?
A spiritual take on comparing things...
Hello,
I hope you are well and happy, and grateful for all the rain… I’m sure that all the gardeners amongst us breathed a sigh of relief! My new allotment is certainly doing better now!
Courgettes anyone?
I have decided to republish an article, within this newsletter, that I first published on my personal Substack. This is because there’s been quite a few new customers who are switching from DoTerra to Wild As The Wind.
I have to say I am really pleased about this, but not just because it provides Wild As The Wind with more resilience with which to navigate these troubled times… It also potentially means there might be a groundswell of people who are now increasingly aware that it is really imperative to start supporting UK based, small businesses.
If this is the case, I am deeply appreciative of this shift in consciousness.
Sadly, I feel that things are going to get worse before they get better. But, one of the things we can do to mitigate this is to start buying British, instead of sending all of our hard-earned cash abroad.
Investing in British companies keeps the UK economy more buoyant. This effectively means that when we do this, we are investing in ourselves, and our future.
Overseas companies, especially in America, like Amazon et al. have profited wildly from UK purchases in recent years. Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon, is now reputed to be the wealthiest man in the world, although how they calculate this I will never know…!?
Nevertheless, the fact remains that Jeff Bezos almost doubled his net worth in the last three years. According to the India Times:
Bezos's fortune has almost doubled since he topped the $100 billion mark in late 2017, even after ceding a quarter of his Amazon stake to ex-wife MacKenzie Scott in a divorce in 2019.
This represents a massive drain on the UK economy, and the smaller it gets, the less there is to go round for everyone.
If we all start buying from UK businesses, we can help to reduce the ongoing shrinkage of the UK economy, so that it has the means to keep on reinvesting in us.
There are other reasons that I am glad people are switching from DoTERRA to Wild As The Wind, but as these are mainly covered by the article below, I won’t make mention of them here.
Sending love to you all,
Rachel x x x x
Updated & Republished: Wild As The Wind, DoTERRA Or Neal's Yard?
A spiritual take on comparing things...
The question relating to, which UK essential oil brand is better than the rest, is a difficult one. This is because I run one of the few quality essential oil businesses in the UK, and the question is always presented as a challenge to compare my UK essential oil business, with other essential oil companies that operate in the UK.
I try and be as impartial as possible when I answer people’s questions, as it doesn’t ‘do’ to spend our lives discrediting others. It doesn’t make the world a better place… so, I try and answer questions like these in as life-affirming and inspirational ways as possible.
It is efforts to do this that allow us to develop spiritually… that are the precursor to ‘black sky’ thinking!
“Black?”
“Surely that should be blue?”
Well, no… but, I’ll explain why black sky thinking is the way forward a little later on. First, I’d like to share the most recent enquiry inviting me to compare Wild As The Wind, DoTERRA and Neal's Yard…
I am just starting my journey into exploring essential oils and I am loving your ethos, am finding your website full of interesting info and really like your price range.
I have used Neil's Yard in the past (not sure if that is a good thing?) but recently have been told that doterra oils are the best to use. I am really interested in using oils as cleaning products and know that doterra are safe to ingest, although I find their price tag expensive.
Please could you explain what the differences are (if any) between your oils and Neil's Yard and doterra. Not sure where to start.
Thanks Jo
These questions are troublesome from a number of perspectives, not least because they are framed in the same way as ‘spammy’ emails.
Yes, for some unknown reason, I get really random emails asking the most peculiar questions about essential oils and how to use them etc, and it’s very difficult to know which are genuine or not… So, despite already working around the clock, I have to make the effort to answer them all. It’s one of the most distressing aspects of the job, if I’m honest… there are so many more pressing things, that would be beneficial to people, that I could be doing, rather than wasting my time on someone who is consciously trying to waste it!
It’s theft!
And, to steal time from the time-poor, is deeply unkind.
Nevertheless, this question, I am very glad to say, turned out to be a genuine enquiry. Here is my response:
Dear Jo,
Sorry it's taken me a little while to get back to you. I did a double event over the weekend and have had a lot of catching up to do as a consequence.
To answer your questions...
Neil's Yard used to be fantastic, but as with so many businesses, after they were sold, things changed.
DoTERRA operate a business model which is very much part of the 'old paradigm'. It can be construed as deeply exploitative, and whilst people continue to support it, they will continue to perpetuate it.
Our spending power equates to some of the most available power and influence we can hope to exert within our world at this time. It is imperative to invest it in a way that supports our outlook and intentions. DoTERRA aren’t a UK essential oil brand, but, are instead, an America company who operates in the UK. This means that DoTERRA revenues are likely all sent back to the US.
DoTERRA essential oils are very good quality. But, they don't have a monopoly on being able to source exceptional essential oils.
Wild As The Wind also sources exceptional aromatherapy oils. The difference being, we don't try and convince anyone we are the only ones who can do this.
But, we don't need to... Our prices are very affordable. Only a business trying to sell essential oils, at the price DoTERRA is selling them for, needs to make these kinds of claims.
The following is an excerpt from an article I published a little while ago.
"DoTERRA unquestionably sell excellent quality essential oils. However, they are the brand who receive the most negative mentions within Wild As The Wind feedback. Nevertheless, it is very rarely the quality of DoTERRA oils that are in question. Instead, it is their business practices and marketing claims which are highlighted.
There is another large US essential oil brand who arguably operate on a similar basis, which is facing a class action lawsuit in America for predatory practices. Both this company, and DoTERRA, are multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes.
As of Novemeber 2021 DoTERRA have a 3.6 rating out of 5 from 68 reviews on Trustpilot
They have a 2.99 rating out of 5 from 41 reviews on Sitejabber.”
I didn’t mention it in my response, but Wild As The Wind have a 5 star rating out of 5 across the board, aside from a 4.9 rating in Google. All the Google reviews are 5 star aside from one 2 star rating that isn’t accompanied by any text. (I personally think it’s from someone who wanted to leave a review, but got overwhelmed by the technical challenge of it all, and bailed… I am sure they didn’t want to tarnish the Wild As The Wind reputation intentionally.)
Several people have written reviews comparing Wild As The Wind with DoTERRA... Wild As The Wind always come off best, but, in DoTERRA’s defence that's somewhat inevitable, seeing as the feedback is usually left on the Wild As The Wind website.
This oil is on a whole new level of fantastic. I used to make my own facial serum. I used to buy my oils from Doterra. I stopped doing both when I found Wild as the Wind! The quality and choice of oils is far superior to anywhere I have used before. And the facial serum is perfect for my skin which feels amazing every day now.
Angela, UK
There are a lot of people who are working for [DoTERRA in Malta] and there is quite a bit of info being distributed on how to use them whether food wise, for cleaning, health wise and many work shops on emotions etc using these oils.
*They say there are the only oils that can be ingested. You make your own blends if you wish. I find them very different to yours [Wild As The Wind Essential Oils]. Yours are more upmarket in my opinion and not the same at all to these.
Stefy, Malta
All I can ultimately say about Wild As The Wind essential oil quality is that it is exceptional, and, I feel, the intention behind Wild As The Wind is very important and progressive. It is all about caring for people and supporting them on their health journey as much as possible.
And, the part about helping and supporting, which is often left unsaid, is that respecting people, and not trying to extract egregious profits from them, is also deeply important.
Perhaps the following customer review, from Francois, says it best?
I have been using many Wild as the Wind essential oils for several months now and I am writing to say how delighted I am to have come across this website sometime last year. I have been using essential oils for many years and have been studying holistic aromatherapy for the last three. As part of my course, I have learnt to recognise the quality of an oil, not only its physical properties but also its energetic quality (the latter being largely determined by the ethics applied to the entire process of oil production and selling). This is very important as the higher the vibration of an oil, the higher its potency and ability to help us heal not only physically but emotionally and mentally also. I have tried and tested many brands (including big names who have acquired a reputation thanks to a clever and well funded marketing strategy rather than an emphasis on ethics). Wild as the Wind oils have become my favorites. Rachel’s knowledge and her generous sharing of information, her passion and determination for uncompromising quality make these oils exceptional. I am so grateful for companies like Wild as the Wind who genuinely care for their customers. In my opinion, they deserve nothing but success.
In conclusion to my response to Jo, I wrote the following:
I hope this answers your questions... It's hard to write equitably when performing comparisons. I know customers must compare, but it's certainly not what's going on internally at Wild As The Wind.
Here, the focus is actually ignoring what other essential oil businesses are doing, and doing the best job possible, helping as many people as possible, by creating a unique way of doing this... That's what makes Wild As The Wind tick.
Sending much love. x x x
I guess the only way that we achieve true innovation is by ignoring the rest and stepping out into the abyss. It is only when we enter the unknown can we find something new.
The abyss isn’t blue!
It’s black!
I feel that what we do, if we are going to be doing it in a healthy way, has to be a reflection of who we are. But, sadly, too many people are being compromised in this regard.
I don’t know how the immediate future is going to look. I think things are going to look pretty messy for a while… But, if we all opt to act with integrity, to issue in a new dawn, then the world we will inhabit will be very different from this one. It will be a world where personal integrity can flourish.
It will be a world where we get to be who we are.
I look forward to the day when we all stop putting the cart before the horse… When we stop saying, “how do I fit into this world…? How do I mould myself, squeeze myself, and ultimately misrepresent myself, so that someone will give me a job?”
Instead, we are going to declare", “Hi, I’m here, and this is who I am! This is my giftedness, and THIS is what I wish to share with the world. This is how I am personally going to make the world a better place.” And, when that day dawns, the days of the corporate lackey will be done.
And, when the corporate lackies are no more, then maybe the all-powerful, monopolistic corporations will crumble into the dust.
WE need to stop fixating on how we need the corporations to give us a job, and acknowledge that it’s the corporations who rule the world, and that they are shaping it in ways that are reductive, restrictive and often repugnant.
Independent research has confirmed that corporations are PSYCHOPATHIC in their intent. So, that is what they are in the business of propagating.
It’s time to push back against psychopathic entities and make life-affirming choices instead.
Investing in small, independent businesses, instead of corporations, is one of the most potent things we can do to bring about positive change in our world.
Thank goodness this idea is catching on…
I have researched many companies to buy my oils from. It was shortlisted to Wild as the Wind and Doterra. Wild as the Wind won! I love everything that you and your company stands for and would love to support your business. I love supporting small business. I love how there is so much information on the website and lots of informative articles.
Hello Rachel,
I just wanted to thank you for the lovely oils you make available for us & also say just how surprised I was to find so much insightful information on your website. It’s not everyday you buy a product & find quality information about natural law & health. It’s really quite impressive & I can see it comes from a genuine place of care for helping people find the truth, so thank you & I wish you all the best. Sincerely
Steven.
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