dōTERRA is of Latin origin and means
"Gift of the Earth."
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Founded in 2008 by a group of health-care and business professionals, doTERRA aims to give the world the most pure, potent and effective essential oils on Earth.
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Through scientific innovation and unmatched quality testing, we offer CPTG® Certified Pure Tested Grade essential oils and other natural solutions for the whole family.
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To empower you, your loved ones, and the world with the tools, resources and community needed to live a life of wellness.
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Annual Impact Report
Since the founding of doTERRA in 2008, our uncompromising commitment to purity has transformed an entire industry. This commitment has driven us to find new ways to source the best and help the most, from increasing supply chain transparency to building life-saving hospitals. We’re proud of the progress we’ve made, and this is just the beginning.
In 2021
We expanded our global family
- Opened new markets in Thailand and Israel.
- Shipped to millions of customers in 134 countries.
- Achieved recognition as the largest essential oil company in the world from Verify Markets.
We empowered people in under-served regions
- Supported 463,025 jobs worldwide.
- Sustainably sourced essential oils in 47 countries.
- Improved nearly 3 million lives.
- Donated $2.3 million to improve the health, safety and self-reliance of people in sourcing communities.
- By 2030, our goal is to be actively improving the lives of 10 million people.
We increased supply chain transparency
- Launched a 10-year plan to audit our 270 plus supply chains.
- Implemented a new 'status' measurement methodology to evaluate our suppliers’ adherence to the Sourcing Guiding Principles.
- 14% of our supply chains audited in the first year - 92% achieved Silver and Gold status.
- Our goal by 2030 is to ensure that 95% of our supply chain partners have achieved Silver status or higher, with 55% achieving Gold and 35% achieving Diamond.
We improved lives and reduced human suffering
- Donated $14.5 million to global humanitarian projects.
- Increased charitable donations by 14.6%.
- Distributed 55,731 disaster relief kits.
- Matched Wellness Consultant fundraising efforts for 117 humanitarian projects.
- Provided relief to 601,750 individuals impacted by COVID-19.
- By 2030, our goal is to be consistently completing 500 projects annually, improving the lives of more than 1 million people each year.
We galvanised our long-term commitment to end human trafficking
- Launched 'Hope', our comprehensive action plan to fight human trafficking and victimisation.
- Donated over $1 million to fight human trafficking worldwide.
- Supported programmes to prevent trafficking, rescue victims and restore dignity for survivors.
- By 2030, our goal is to be donating $3 million annually to prevent trafficking, rescue victims from human exploitation and restore dignity for survivors.
We saved lives through access to healthcare in rural Somaliland
- Opened the Sanaag Specialty Hospital, providing first-time healthcare access for a region with more than 600,000 people.
- Raised $2.5 million to fund hospital operations for five years.
- Supported an endowment fund to provide medical staff salaries in perpetuity.
- Our goal for 2030 is to be consistently donating $6 million annually via the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation, such that we can improve the lives of 3.5 million people every year in the communities where we source our essential oils.
We made progress in our sustainability agenda
- Overhauled our shipping processes to reduce energy consumption and shipping material volume.
- Replaced plastic shipping materials with paper, saving 283,000 pounds of plastic per year.
- Switched to carbon-efficient ocean shipments wherever possible.
- Began formulating key products as concentrates to reduce product weight, shipping volume, carbon emissions and packaging materials.
- All of these changes have significantly reduced our carbon emissions, and we are committed to making more progress in this area each year. Our goal by 2030 is carbon neutrality.
We prioritised environmental conservation
- Continued working to protect and restore native forests in Hawaii, which is the largest reforestation effort in the state’s history.
- Created over 5,000 farming jobs and planted 10 million trees and plants in Kenya, planning to increase to up to 30 million in the next five years.
- Funded research and nurseries in Oman to cultivate Boswellia saplings for Frankincense sourcing.
- Worked with the New Zealand government to reduce the spread of Douglas Fir, creating a sustainable opportunity to extract the essential oil, while helping to preserve the country’s unique biodiversity.
- Our goal in Hawaii by 2030 is to have planted more than 1 million trees across the state.
We advanced research and science
- Launched a multi-year cutting-edge essential oil research project to demonstrate the superiority of doTERRA essential oils and validate their use in clinical settings.
Our Mission: Triple Our Impact by 2030
dōTERRA is proud of its impact. Transcendent power comes from people locking arms in pursuit of purity. Differences become strengths. Barriers become stepping stones. Progress prevails. Together, we’re revolutionising the essential oil industry and what it means to be a company with a conscience. And this is only the beginning.
By 2030, our goal is to triple our impact with the people we empower, the communities we serve, and the lives we improve.