The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy: Over 600 Natural, Non-Toxic and Fragrant Recipes to Create Health - Beauty - a Safe Home Environment

The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy: Over 600 Natural, Non-Toxic and Fragrant Recipes to Create Health - Beauty - a Safe Home Environment

Customer Review: Great ‘all-around’ book
As an aromatherapist, I have many titles in my library of reference material. This book is one of the few that is unique. It is a great book for someone just starting to delve into aromatherapy, but it goes farther than that. You will find yourself going back to this book over and over and over again as you develop and hone your skills. I have been using essential oils for almost a decade, and I picked it up just the other day to look something up. When I grabbed it this week, it hit me just how good a book this really is. I decided I had to review it here so others could benefit from reading it as well. I hope this helps someone
Customer Review: Good start, but some criticisms
This has a lot of interesting explanations on how the oils mix, about synergistic blends. It is a great overview of aromatherapy.

However, I find the book to be a little bit too preachy. When the author wrote this book, did she consider the audience? Every other sentence explains about the toxicity and the poisons of our every day products. It’s a bit much. One doesn’t need to convert the choir. They are already converted, at least part way. One can do without such overt preachiness.

My second criticism is that the book is designed for a beginner. As a beginner, it seems to me that the recipes should be a little more basic. While in the beginning, she discusses the 10 essential oils that everyone should have in their basic care arsenal, the other recipes often go far beyond those 10. As a beginner, I have yet to acquire all of these costly oils, and then some. It would be helpful to have recipes that didn’t contain 6-10 different oils. An example would be: these two oils is a basic recipe for this, and if you really want to go further, add these as well. (There are a number of recipes like that, but they are far and few.) Also, it would be nice to know why one essential oil was chosen over another for a certain mixture. Is it for anti-inflammatory reasons? For general antiseptic? Anti fungal? One has to do a lot of guessing. This is supposed to be a beginners book, after all.

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Lavender-Mint Aromatherapy Spray - Zum Misters by Indigo Wild, 4oz.
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Aura Cacia Pure Aromatherapy 100% Pure Essential Oil, Heart Song, 0.5-Ounces (Pack of 2)
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Aromatherapy‘>Aromatherapy Mineral Bath - Soothing Heat, 16 oz
The pure essential oils of natural botanicals offer a variety of benefits and bring balance to your mind, body and spirit. Our unique blend of ocean and desert salts, generously scented with 100% pure essential oils, will give you softer feeling skin and soothe your soul. Soothing Heat Mineral Bath contains Balsam Fir Needle, Lemon, Eucalyptus, Juniper Berry and Myrtle which soothes achy muscles.
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Vibrational Healing: Revealing the Essence of Nature through Aromatherapy and Essential Oils
In a therapeutic blend bringing together Chinese Medicine, reflexology, and craniosacral therapy, massage therapist Deborah Eidson shows how essential oils and Bach Flower Remedies can be used to identify and free up emotional blockages which may be causing health problems.

Eidson explains that all chakras have a location associated with organs, as well as a sound, color, and element. Giving a good massage can involve stimulating meridians and meridian points, finding the location of blocked energy, and then working with oils to affect change.

Eidson writes in an unabashedly spiritual context, using her intuitive energetic abilities to help clients open to their own development and spiritual path. In a thorough listing of essential oils, Eidson describes each essential oil in terms of its use in life transformations, growth and healing issues most relevant, the oil’s energetic influences on blockages and distortions, relevant organs, and the botanical origin of the plant. Her trust in plants to reveal the nature and problems of a person amounts to a fascinating statement on the nature of the relationship between plants and people, as well as an important healing text.
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Customer Review: Aromatheraphy Healing
This book is by far the best book I have picked up on this issue of healing and essential oils!!! I have used her advice and got plenty of good results with family members!! It is a must have for those looking for healing solutions for those who need emotional healing as well as physical. Most Impressive!!!!
Customer Review: An essential book.
Deborah’s book has been a mainstay in my healing practice for quite a few years; for myself and others. I am very grateful to her for bringing this book to life so that we may all benefit from the information and wisdom it contains, not only on essential oils but also on energy systems of the body, dowsing, intuition, healing, and other tidbits paramount to health. Thank you Deborah!

Making Aromatherapy Creams and Lotions: 101 Natural Formulas to Revitalize & Nourish Your Skin
A reader?s guide to creating exciting, inventive, and unique cosmetics and body-care products using all-natural ingredients and the power of aromatherapy. Includes an overview of aromatherapy, techniques used to extract aromatic plant materials, tips on creating unique and personal creams and lotions, and a full complement of inspirational recipes.

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Customer Review: good book
I liked this book because it explained in detail, the proper use of ingredients. It gives easy to use formulas as well as giving explanations of why certain ingredients were used and substitutions of ingredients to get the results you desire. Some reviewers said the products were difficult to find, but with a simple web search, I found Glory Bees Food to be an excellent source. This book is a great start if you want to start a business. It helps you to understand the process of formulation. Thus far, this is my favorite book on the subject.
Customer Review: Aromatheraphy
I really loved this book the only draw back is that most things you made have to go in the refrigerator, I would really like someone to come out with receipes that are marketable and preserved with things like essential oils instead of just having to put everything in the frig. #1 My kids might think it is food and try it. #2 I don’t think the next time you go to use it cold stuff on your face is not what you are after for your skin to asborb ingredients it needs to be warm not cold. #3 It is alittle confusing. I couldn’t figure out what they meant by a certain type of oil. This book is defintely not for the beginner and it is not easily readable for making receipes. #4 It would have been better had they made the book like a receipe book with the spiral binding so when you are trying to make the receipe the book is easy to keep open. I would like to see more research done on the foods on your skin verses the other products people are using. People need to see real results that have been tested and tried and then documented. Maybe a college could do this for someone??? I know that if people are not careful they could transfer bacteria to their skin if they left the product in the frig to long and keep using it. Yes I know just like food but if they aren’t aware of the dangers it could have adverse side effects.

Aromatherapy‘>Aromatherapy Mineral Bath - Tranquility, Packet, 6 Units / 2.5 oz
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Customer Review: Tranquility now!
The mix of essential oils (lavender, cypress, patchouli, geranium, chamomile) really does produce a feeling of tranquility for me. I love this scent.