dōTERRA Cō-Impact Sourcing^® Initiative in India

Farmers will often grow spearmints for 5 months, harvest, and then plant rice, wheat, or mustard during alternating seasons. By rotating crops like this, farmers typically increase their income by as much as 40% per year. Following the harvest, nearby community distillation units distill the spearmint for eight hours. The post-distilled biomass is then dried out and reused to fuel the distillation boiler, a proven sustainable practice. Farmers then take their oil directly to our sourcing partner for purity testing and can be paid within an hour.