 Additionally, Pappas has given a court deposition saying that Young Living utilized synthetic chemicals in some of their organic products.Young Living lost the case in 2017 and in 2018 a judge ordered it to pay doTerra's legal fees.Young Living employs a multi-level marketing model, recruiting "thousands of independent distributors who can sell directly to customers and earn commissions on sales to distributors recruited into a hierarchical network called 'downlines'."