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Are you wanting to start using essential oils, but don’t know where to start? You’re ready to buy, but don’t know what company has the best essential oils?

You’ve come to the right place.

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Essential oils are all the rage these days.  People say that they can do everything from being a natural ear infection remedy, to helping with weight loss, to healing eczema, and more.

I’ve written various posts on essential oils in which I talked about:

Hopefully you can tell by those posts that I’m a skeptic at heart and pretty detailed when it comes to sorting through all the information out there to find out what really works.  In fact, many of my readers and friends have called me an “investigative reporter” of sorts.

My husband says that I “second guess everything.”

In one sense, second guessing is a good thing.  I’ve saved our family a lot of money by avoiding problematic purchases.

But sometimes I can go overboard and spend way too much time analyzing a product or purchase.  (Kind of like driving all over town to save a few pennies.  Not smart, especially as I saw gas at $4.11/gallon coming home from church last night. Big sigh.)

When trying to sort out this issue about which essential oils company is best, I tried not to be too analytical at first, and simply used what worked.  But then, things changed.

Wondering What the Best Essential Oils Company Is? I was wondering the same thing after I first started using them. So many companies say that theirs are the best, so who are you to believe? Come find out what I learned when I started asking questions. Things got a little dicey, and you'll probably be surprised by my conclusion.
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The Search for the Best Essential Oil

In the Are Essential Oils a Scam? – A Skeptic Looks at Thieves Oil, I shared how I held off trying really any essential oils at all for years before trying Thieves® from Young Living.

Truth be told, I did have a few old bottles of essential oils in my linen closet.  One bottle each of orange, eucalyptus, melaleuca (tea tree) oil, and rose oil, which I bought for topical use to brighten up my laundry [ended up never using it] and for my Homemade Chest Rub and Homemade Rose Water Spray.

This time around, before buying the Thieves oil and signing up as a Young Living Distributor, I dug around a little, but not too much.  

I asked about all the rumors surrounding Gary Young, the founder of Young Living and I also asked some questions about purity of essential oils.

I got some satisfactory answers and was pretty amazed at how well the Thieves oil had worked. And I was thrilled to have great resources in my natural health care arsenal.  

I mean, who wants to put more toxins in your body if you don’t have to, right?

However, after my post on Young Living’s Thieves and the other oils (Wintergreen and Peppermint, etc.), a number of readers started asking me about other oil companies. And so I too started wondering.

At first, I thought, “This stuff works great, and I’m pretty worn out right now, so I am just going to leave this alone and not start digging for more information”

But the “investigative reporter” in me just couldn’t leave. it. alone.

So I started poking around.

Today I’m sharing with you the beginning of my investigation.

Other Essential Oils Companies

There were some essential oils companies that I knew of, and some that a few readers recommended to me.

One of my readers was a doTERRA rep who said I really should check out their company to see how it measured up to Young Living.

Little did I know what lay ahead of me.

I started out with just a small list of companies, but the list quickly grew as the series went on and as more and more readers commented and as I went down more and more rabbit trails.  

I think you’ll find the whole thing interesting and I hope you’ll learn a thing or two about essential oils and the companies that sell them.

The Competitors: 

(UPDATE:  A lot changed after I started this series. Please follow the links at the bottom of this post to see how interesting everything got  – you can hop on over to read Part 2 of “The Best Essential Oils” here. 

To start off, following are the essential oils companies that were “on my radar” and so I started with these, wondering if I should stick with Young Living or switch to another company to be my family’s “best essential oils company” of choice

This is not an exhaustive list as there are a TON of essential oils companies out there.  After writing this series I felt like I really opened a can of worms, but these are the companies that I started with.  

Hang with me – it gets pretty interesting from here on out.

IMPORTANT UPDATE

I’m updating this post years later to add important information. I do not have all of the information in this series on why I didn’t choose certain companies so I would appreciate you not accusing me of coming to silly conclusions. I have gotten threatening emails (some of them were cryptic threats), and have been warned about being sued if I published certain things.

My family is important to me and while I don’t like to succumb to this kind of bullying, I have to weigh the cost of all of this. I am trying to be as upfront as I can about my decisions. Just know that what you are reading here is not the whole story. Not at all.

The Challenge

Following are some of the companies that I looked into.

1. Young Living Oils

I first tried Young Living when I thought that essential oils were a scam. I used them for a while and since I wanted to get as many savings as possible on the oils, I purchased monthly, took advantage of discounts, and stocked up quite a bit.

2. doTERRA Oils

Just before starting this series, several of my readers told me that I should really look into doTERRA as well, before making a hard and fast decision about which company to go with long term. So, I signed up with doTERRA as well. Follow along and you will see what happened next.

3.  Mountain Rose Herbs

I like Mountain Rose Herbs’ mission and have a few bottles of their oils.  When I contacted them they told me that they did not recommend internal use of their oils as they were not produced in a food-grade facility.

Much later (after this whole series was done) I contacted them again and they said that this was not the case.  The company also told me several times at later dates that they didn’t test their oils but trusted their sources.

4. Butterfly Express

This seemed like a good company to check out, but I ran into quite a bit of trouble getting information from them. When I called to ask them a number of questions, I was able to get some information, but then I was told that they didn’t have time to talk with me.

5.  Native American Nutritionals (now Rocky Mountain Oils)

When I first contacted this company, I thought that their prices seemed a little high for a company that wasn’t an MLM, but the more I talked to them the more interesting it all got.  

You’ll have to read more in the series to see what happened with this company….

THE VERDICT:  Probable high quality with no apparent earnings opportunity.   Need to check into this company more.  

6. North American Herb and Spice

From all I could figure out, this is a great company.

However, all they make is oregano oil.

So if you just want oregano oil, then this is a good place to turn.

THE VERDICT:  Oregano is a pretty amazing oil, but I want more than just that in my natural healing arsenal.

7.  Aura Cacia

I personally have a number of Aura Cacia oils that I bought prior to really digging into oils.  I can’t say anything except for my personal experience which is that they don’t smell as potent as some of the other oils that I have.  

I do like the company but for now, I’m not choosing to get my oils from them.   That being said, I think that they have a lot of great information about oils and their use.

Well, this is a long enough post already – thanks for sticking with me!

Onto the other competitors in the next post and see what happens!

A Great Essential Oils Book for Your Library

There are so many books out there on essential oils, that it’s hard to know what to buy.  I have a bunch, but this one, The Encyclopedia of Essential Oils, is a fantastic choice. It’s very highly recommended by many aromatherapists.

I Recommend
Encyclopedia of Essential Oils

Encyclopedia of Essential Oils

This is one of the bestselling essential oils books of all time with information on plant origins, therapeutic uses, folk traditions, and more of 165 oils. Great for everyone from beginners to experienced aromatherapists.

Check Price on Amazon


At the bottom of each of my posts in this series are books or other kinds of products that I love that relate to essential oils.

The Essential Oil Company I Prefer

If you’re in a hurry to find out which essential oil company I went with at the end of this search, read the following post:

– Announcing “the Best” Essential Oils Company – Part 7 

More Essential Oils Posts

Over the years, I’ve rewritten some of the posts in this series to make them more helpful. Here are some more posts to help you on your essential oils journey.

– Qualities of a Good Oils Company
– Tips to Spot Fake Essential Oils
– Young Living vs. doTERRA
– Are Multi-Level Marketing Oils Worth It?
– Distillation, Bias, Vomit and More Concerns

you can also read this post on Essential Oils Testing which gives you more information on how essential oils are tested for purity.

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  1. I encourage anyone using essential oils to do their research on what is in them. Many companies that sell them cheaper are usually diluting them with laboratory produced chemicals that supposedly match that in the essential oils made by the plant. These do not work the same in your body. Many of the manmade chemicals are actually toxic to you but the same compound in a true essential oil is therapeutic. Most companies that tell you not to take oils internally are usually adding potent chemicals to them to make them cheaper without the good qualities of the natural oil. Get to know whomever you are buying your oils from and make sure they keep them pure from the organic field all the way to the bottle. I tell the truth when I say I have seen oils do some amazing things, from curing cancer in a man who had 4 types of cancer, one in Stage 4!!! To helping a dog regenerate almost an entire hind quarter of skin in 1 Month (attacked by coyote)!!! I use Young Living oils because I know they are pure, I am not saying others are not just asking you to please do your research on them extensively. I used to use Mountain Rose Herbs until someone smelled one of my oils and got a huge migraine from it. Then gave me his oil of the same type and I smelled it. Wow. After smelling MRH oils then smelling his YL oil I know why he got a headache. After smelling YL’s oil then the MRH oil I could smell the nasty chemical aroma he claimed was so nasty and gave him a headache. Well anyway I did a lot of research and found that many companies claim to have pure oils and switched to YL because- you can tour their farms where the crops are produced, watch them harvest, see how they distill them, and see that product goes right into the bottle in a pure undiluted natural form. A pure oil is in the bloodstream in 3 minutes or less and throughout every cell in your body in about 20 minutes. They truly are amazing and have been a blessing to me and my family.

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      1. I use a company called Wyndmere naturals ! They are very good an female owned in the USA. Any questions are answered by a real person at the 800 number an they are very knowledgeable. Also affordable an pure. I have done plenty of research an I find these a great option.

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      2. You can google Young Living, and go into there virtual office and sign up ,I love the purity of there products if you need more help feel free to contact me.

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    2. I have infection in my muscles that is also affecting my heart–given your comment about 20 minutes until all cells absorb oil–is this ingested or just topically applied?
      I am using antibiotics and I’m in remission–the condition is called scleroderma and my heart I believe is being infected from the cell (all muscles). What oils would you all recommend being that the skin is our largest organ and scleroderma hardens the skin and for the muscles (including heart)? thanks in advance.

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  2. It wouldn’t hurt to look into Ameo oils. These are certified to work on a cellular level in the body.

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    1. I looked at them. Thanks. I don’t think that I see how one company’s essential oils can work on a cellular level but others wouldn’t. Have they done something to their oils to change them?

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  3. I love Floracopeia. The founder, David Crow, works directly with the farmers and an expert in plant medicine. I took a class that he taught and the amount of knowledge he has blew me away.

    Check them out

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  4. Thank you for this review. This has helped me to look closely at what is contained in essential oils. I checked out Rocky Mountain and was surprised to see added substances for aroma. Can you comment on the multiple Rocky Mountain oils that contain added substances like linalool, beta-caryophellene (EWG reports these as known human allergens). Directly from their site below:

    The main constituents in Lavender Hungary Essential Oil are:

    Linalool – provides a medium floral aroma

    Linalyl acetate – provides a medium herbal aroma

    ?-Caryophyllene – provides a medium spicy aroma

    Terpinen-4-ol – provides a medium musty aroma

    Lavandulyl acetate – provides a low floral aroma

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    1. You are welcome!

      This area of their site is perhaps a little confusing. Those are natural components of the oils – they are not added. EWG is actually adding to the confusion. I have heard that they are going to be rating those things differently but not sure when that is going to happen. Of course people can be allergic to all kinds of things but some are more prone to being allergens than others.

      I hope that helps!

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      1. Please consider a GCMS report on your oils I prefer Aromatics. They appear to be the most forward honest and educational sights. That means with the GCMS reports you can find the purest unadulterated oils, how they are distilled and country of origin as well as plant part.Everything you need to know!!

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      2. I have currently joining Young Living Oils and need to know if this is the company to go with? Thank you!!

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        1. Hi there. If you read through the series you will see what I ended up doing. I did leave Young Living, however.

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  6. You might look into Stillpoint Aromatics. They have great quality, selection and customer service and all their orders are hand poured for the customer.
    Check them out!!

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  7. I am completely new with the oils movement, so I need all the help that I can get. I had a brain injury in 2012 and have been one so many medications that it is ridiculous. I am looking for help with pain management, joint issues, skin issues. Plus I just want to be as healthy as a person can be and get off some of my medications. I realize that there is no set oils for a brain injury, but I would like to find a healthier way to be healthy and feel better.

    If you could help guide me in the right direction I would be so grateful to you. Thank you in advance for your info and your help. Judy Bennett

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    1. Hello there. Thanks for reading! There are so many things I could share but of course I can’t medically advise. I can tell you that when someone I know had a concussion I was told to try Frankincense at the base of the head. I don’t know what your issues are but if you can share possibly I have a post that might be of interest or a personal testimony. Thanks and take care. I do think that toxins are a big issue for almost everyone these days- that and gut health. https://wholenewmom.com/remove-toxins-healthy-lifestyle/

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  8. I am curious about your take on Young Living Essential oils in this article. You only stated that you had an allergic reaction to one and another arrived leaking. But you stated this within the your review of Heritage oils. You then continued to inform of your disappointment about customer service which was referring to Heritage oils just after having mentioned YL. Unless a person is a careful reader, one could take away from the article that YL was not recommended due to bad customer service. Plus there is no separate review just for YL in this article.

    I have been using YL oils for the past 20 years and have appreciated the opportunity to be “able” to share the benefits of oils as you are with others and share “the opportunity” with others if they are into that sort of thing. Different people approach the business of YL differently. Many highly successful business people such as Kiosaki, Tony Robiins to Soros to articles in Forbes highly recommend the system of Network Marketing/ Direct Marketing, etc. Unfortunately there have been MLM’s that have failed and given the genius system a bad name but the same goes for any industry. There will always be those companies with integrity and those without. I think it is time to re- frame the concept of Network Marketing so more people have a fair chance to a possible life changing experience. The way “MLM” is thrown about, it carries such negative connotations that it gives reputable companies a bad rap. Kind of like a bad smell you can’t quite locate. This is changing because people are starting to look into entrepreneurship due to the failing corporate structures that give no security and where loyalty is rare. So I ask everyone who stigmatizes Direct Marketing to ease up a bit- it is not as bad as many “skeptics” proclaim. On the other hand it allows one to use quality products from a company that resonates with their lifestyle and at the same time have an opportunity to share and even make some extra cash if it were of interest or take the business to a whole new level and take control of one’s financial life if one chooses. I’d rather join a company that allows me the Opportunity to take it to another level. One cannot deny the lives that have been enriched by this type of system.

    So back to the first paragraph- what has been your experience with YL, I would really like to know. Thank you

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    1. Hi there. I talk about YL more further into the series. I think you will understand more as you read on – it’s in Part 4. I couldn’t write everything but that should help. Thanks for reading. The info here was just to say that I liked YL’s customer service as compared w/ not getting a response from a company.

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  9. Hi… thank you so much for your research. I’m from Mexico and I found a few brands providing escencial oils here. Some of them, you already mencioned , but I just want to ask you if you have any information about YOR health. They seem to have more than escential oils, organic certified and fist extration,but other ?roducts that sounds really interesting. do you know anything about them? thanks
    😀

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  11. I’m looking for any type of Herb oil, which is so potent that it burns your skin if it touches you. Over 10 years ago I bought some oil of oregano from a locally owned Health food store. The bottle was about 15 mL. I could mix 5mL with a standard size spray bottle, along with water, and spray it around the perimeter of my fruit tree, only to watch squirrels run toward the tree and when they hit the perimeter they would veer off. My wife sprayed it around the perimeter of her garden, And after they had been rummaging through it previously… They ceased. I don’t care where it’s made, how it’s made; just so it is a natural oil. At the time I believe I paid about $15 for it. This would definitely not be for internal use, but rather varment control. Zorkwhomp

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  12. It is all depending on what purpose you are using these oils for. If you only use them in diffusers or topically, any one can do, but if you are looking for oils pure enough to ingest in capsule or in a glass of water, YL, doterra and edens garden are the only ones I trust. I love doterra, they have no secondary undertones and are so pure you can drop them in a glass of water and drink them, but my mom loves YL and I trust my mom, she is a very intelligent woman and she researches like a mad woman, as I do, so I would trust YL oils as well. I still have not tried YL oils, never had the chance because my mom lives in IL and I am in FL, but I really like the fact that they are an established company and they have MANY more singles choices than doterra. I love doterra’s DDR Prime for killing cancer cells, they also have the onguard which has anything and everything from immune support gel caps to soap and laundry detergent. I have never sampled the Eden brand but I have read up on the company and hundreds of reviews. I know they are a 0.1 behind doterra and YL and Radha is behind them in quality. Many people trust Eden’s oils to take internally but they do not think Radhas is pure enough to ingest, so as I mentioned, it is all abbout the purpose you are buying them for. What makes me feel uneasy about YL is that why do they have separate oils for cooking? Doterras oils are same, they do not have more Pure oils for cooking, all their oils are pure… but maybe that is just for the FDA I don’t know, I asked questions of the YL company and never received a reply.

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    1. Hello there.

      I think it’s very important to go w/ a company that does 3rd party testing using GC/MS and has a chemist’s signature on the test results. I also am concerned when companies recommend internal use without consulting with a physician or aromatherapist.

      The YL issue from what I understand is just a label change but the oils are the same. Hope that helps.

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  13. Thank you so much for this information! I am a massage therapist and in looking for a new brand found this blog, I now use Rocky Mountain oils in my practice and everyone loves them! However, the spa I work at sells plant therapy. I’m not sold on the too good to be true pricing, but can’t find much info on the company. Did you do any digging on them by any chance? I’d just like to know how that company stacks up so I can convince my boss to carry RMOils.

    Thank you again!

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    1. Hello Leslie.

      Thanks for the kind words. I did look at Plant Therapy. I would recommend staying tuned as I will be writing more about Essential Oill purity hopefully in the next week.

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  14. Are you familiar with JadeBloom? If so, what are your thoughts?

    They claim to be ingestible and I LOVE their low prices, yet because they are so new, I’m a skeptic. I enjoy not breaking the bank (JB), but I appreciate the effectiveness of DT.

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  17. I’ve purchased Young Living essential oils, but after doing some research, I’m not sure that’s who I need to be going with. I’m VERY New at this.
    I’ve read up on Mountain Rose essential oils and I like what they are saying.
    Do you have any comments on Mountain Rose?

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    1. I love Mountain Rose Herbs. I love Frontier too for many of my spices but I used MRH for years for the harder to find products. However, I was talking to them about their oils and found that they didn’t do GC/MS testing on their oils but just trusted their suppliers. They had an oil turn out to be problematic in a 3rd party test and said that they had run out of their trusted supplier’s oil and went w/ another company. However, when I talked w/ them more recently, they said that they had started testing some of their oils. They found that there were some oils, even some organic, even though they were from their trusted suppliers, that were adulterated. I suspect that Mountain Rose Herbs will do the right thing, but for this reason, I recommend going w/ a company that tests every batch and has GC/MS test results for every batch and that it has a chemist’s signature on that report.

      I hope that helps. I’ll be writing more on the topic.

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  18. Thank you so much for this informative series of posts.
    While I will always be a devout user of Thieves and Joy, I was curious as to whether or not YL oils were indeed the best out there. I learned a lot by reading all of your posts, and I am placing my order for The Secret this morning, as well as Sacred Frankincense (both RMO).
    And I am curious as to what you will find out about Eden’s Garden. I ordered Frankincense from them, and while I haven’t used it yet, I noticed last night that the bottle was half full. It also didn’t really smell like Frankincense, however, I have purchased their version of Joy,
    for use only in my diffuser and it’s pretty close. Thanks again!

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      1. Hey there, I also shop from Edens Gardens. How could I check that this company is following these guidelines?

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  19. Did not see a place on your website that said essential oils are lethal to cats because they don’t have an enzyme to digest elements of the EO and that shuts down their liver and kidneys and the cat DIES.. I almost made the mistake of ordering some essential oil to diffuse for my daughter. She asked me if it would harm her cat. I searched and found many many websites saying dogs, horse, etc were ok w EO but it was LETHAL to cats and that looked like it included almost all of the EO. CUSTOMERS HAVE TO BE TOLD THIS. I COULDVE KILLED HER BELOVED CAT AND SINCE I WAS GETTING EO ALSO, IT WOULDVE KILLED MY CATS.
    IT IS IRRESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE EO WEBSITES NOT TO MENTION THIS, IVE LOOKED AT MANY EO SITES AND NEVER SAW ANYTHING ABOUT EO KILLING CATS UNTIL I DID THE SEARCH:” DOES ESSENTIAL OILS CAUSE ANY HARM TO CATS”. WOW, I WAS ASTONISHED. I SENT AN EMAIL TO MY CATS VET SO SHE IS AWARE OF THE DANGER. AROMA THERAPY IS SO POPULAR AND SUPPOSED TO BE SO HEALTHFUL, THAT I IMAGINE MANY CUSTOMERS CAN INADVERTENTLY KILL THEIR CATS. THE VETS CANT DO ANYTHING TO SAVE THE CATS.. PLEASE RESPOND. Betty

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    1. Hello Betty. I agree that one needs to use caution when using essential oils around cats. Here is a statement from an EO company about cats:

      Although this is a subject we are passionate about, and hope to be able to provide this information in the future, we currently do not have anyone on our staff that is educated in using essential oils on pets. For cats and other small animals, essential oils can be toxic and unfortunately, Certified Aromatherapists are not trained in the use of essential oils with animals. This is considered a specialty and requires additional education. We do know that hydrosols are very safe for most pets, but it is best to check with your veterinarian or someone who is educated in this area.

      You may find this book helpful, “Holistic Aromatherapy for Animals” by Kristen Leigh Bell, in gathering more information on using essential oils with animals.

      (that link is an affiliate link)

      Hope that is helpful.

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  20. Hey Adrienne,
    There is an amazing essential oil store called Saje natural wellness that you should check out!
    They’ve just recently expanded into the United States but are originally from Canada. All of the oils are FDA approved and absolutely 100% natural. They have incredible customer service and have the best return/exchange policy I’ve ever come by.

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