As with most of you, over the past few years we've been hit up by countless doTerra fanatics. I've enjoyed my multiple sarcastic digs on CB and Facebook and will continue to do so. My wife purchased a few oils from a friend to be nice and started using them on kids that had various minor issues. We found that there were positive results.

A few examples: headaches. If any one of us gets a headache, the oil remedy can serve to take the edge off. It's nice because then our younger kids especially, can feel like something is helping right away and we don't have to always have them take drugs for something small.
Congestion and other aches and pains. Same as headaches.
Allergies: seems to help some as well

They seem to help and soothe, especially for little kids.

You get my point.

But here's where they lose their credibility and make us all roll our eyes: they are pushed as an answer to everything under the sun and as a replacement for other treatments. This, in my mind is where they lose their credibility. If they marketed themselves as helpful and useful, I think most of us would regard them more positively. Maybe with some people they have a major effect on major problems, but it certainly is not an absolute.