About this site and how it is written
Last updated: 28 August 2026
Aroma Essential Oils is an independent information site about essential oils, written in English and German, and it is not an official doTERRA website. I am a doTERRA Wellness Advocate, which means that if you buy through a link on this site I may receive referral credit — at no extra cost to you. That is stated on every page that carries such a link.
The site covers the European market: Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Why this site exists
Most of what is written in English about cooking with essential oils comes from the United States, where the same oils are labelled differently. Follow an American recipe exactly and you can end up using an oil in a way its European label does not cover. Wild Orange and Bergamot are the clearest examples: treated as ingestible in American material, marked for external use only on their European product information sheets.
This site exists to say, oil by oil and in two languages, what the European label actually permits.
How these pages are written
These are the rules I hold myself to. They are worth stating plainly, because they are what makes the difference between this site and a recipe blog.
- Every product fact comes from doTERRA’s European product information sheet for that oil — bottle size, item number, directions for use, daily limit, cautions. Not from American material, and not from another website.
- Where the English and German sheets disagree, each market follows its own sheet, and where they conflict the more restrictive reading wins. Cilantro is an example: the English sheet names it as a food flavouring, the German one does not, so it appears in English food articles and not in German ones.
- Only oils whose European sheet declares food-flavouring use appear in food recipes. No exceptions, however common the oil is in American recipes.
- Every recipe states how many servings it makes and shows the arithmetic per person. A drop count without a serving count tells you nothing.
- Nothing here claims that an essential oil prevents, treats or cures any condition. Where an older article on this site once did, it has been rewritten.
- No oil is ever recommended undiluted on skin, and photosensitivity is named wherever it applies.
- Prices are not published, because they differ by market and change. The link takes you to the official shop for your country, where the current price is shown.
What this site is not
It is not medical advice, and I am not a doctor or a pharmacist. For children, pregnancy, breastfeeding, existing conditions or medication, ask a qualified professional first — those are different questions with different answers.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, I would rather know. Write to contact and tell me which page and what is wrong, and I will correct it or remove it.