In other words - it can only thrive, when growing wild at high altitude.This harvesting source ensures natural, high level, relatively homogeneous, carvacrol as well as other important ingredients. Read more

OREGANO VULGAR "WEAKNESSES"
The most common plant used for oregano oils - Oregano Vulgar, is cultivated throughout the world at low altitudes with many subspecies.
As such, many vendors of this product, tend to STANDARDIZE, the extracted oil, namely adding to the oil one or more ingredients - most notably, adding carvacrol, to maintain a "good level" of that ingredient. Some vendors will claim for "Wild oregano plant harvested from high altitude habitat" with no attempt to substantiate this claim.
Using the Origanum Minutiflorum resolves the substantiation issue because it is not cultivated, and its wild habitat is very limited to the Massifs Mountains in southern Turkey. [REF]

NOTE! Many oregano oil vendors became aware of the ORIGANUM MINOTIFLORUM superior qualities and are naming there oregano oil as origanum minutiflorum, without actually sourcing their oil or the leaves they use for the extraction of the oil from that plant. If you want this unique oil, verify its source and don't let the product name to mislead you.

OREGANO OIL BLENDS -  Some oregano oil vendors do not make it very clear that their product is a blend (most often with olive oil) where the olive oil is the major ingredient in the bottle. Some of these vendors offer a "regular" oregano oil (the word blend is not mentioned) and a super strength oregano oil which according to one of their sellers "...the difference between super strength and regular strength is that the ratio of olive oil to oregano oil is considerably different, by nearly 3-fold."
They would tell you that the carvacrol content in their oregano oil is above a certain percentage, but without knowing the composition of the blend that they offer in the bottle, you would not be able to figure out, how much carvacrol you really get in the oil that you take!
Of coarse, pure oregano essential oil should be blended significantly before use (between 1-4 drops in a tablespoon of a carrier oil - like olive oil, read more below), be it for topical or ingestion, but most customers are not aware that what they buy is not the pure oregano oil but mostly an olive oil!

STANDARDIZATION of essential oils alters and disrupts their natural construction. Standardization practice intends to maintain consistency and/or to selectively increase specific naturally occurring compounds - most notably, carvacrol. This can be done by the producer, before, during or after the extraction process.

Examples of standardization practices include modifications of the plant seed and growth environment, and the addition of isolated components post-distillation/extraction.

This selective process disrupts the synergy that occurs when trace components that would otherwise naturally occur within the plant are lost to make room for the unnatural increase in components.
As demonstrated by this study [REF], the overall effect of the beneficial components  Disruption of this synergy, has a dramatic impact of lowering the effectiveness of the oil.  

Regardless of the technique, when the natural composition of the oil is altered, and synergy is compromised, renders the oil to become less effective than if it were in its natural state.

We recommend 100% pure origanum minutiflorum oil which needs no standardization or any other practice to improve its quality from the harvesting of the wild plant through the distillation process, preservation of its natural qualities is the guiding line.

Coordinated with regional forestry authorities, the origanum we recommend is carefully harvested, to preserve this specie in this unique habitat.