Essential Oils for Beginners: The Guide to Get Started with Essential Oils and Aromatherapy
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A New York Times bestseller—the best way to start.
What are essential oils? Which ones should you keep in your personal apothecary? And most importantly, how can you use them to heal and enhance well-being? Essential Oils for Beginners is the definitive handbook for learning all of this and more as you discover the power of essential oils.
Learn how to expertly blend essential oils and create your own aromatherapy mixes to soothe your body, mind, and home. With 85 remedies that address everything from uplifting your mood to treating an upset stomach to cosmetic uses for your hair and skin, you’ll have all of the guidance you need to devote yourself to natural healing and health.
Essential Oils for Beginners includes:
Essential Oils 101—Learn what essential oils are and how to build your collection and store it.Cures for Mind and Body—Harness the power of essential oils for common ailments like headaches, morning sickness, muscle pain, stress, and more.Cosmetic and Home Uses—Explore the many uses of essential oils—as an air freshener, in candles and cleaning supplies, as a bug repellant, and much more.
If you’re interested in natural remedies, open this book and learn everything you need to use the power of essential oils for healing.
ASIN : B0CZJXPT9M
Publisher : Callisto (September 26, 2013)
Publication date : September 26, 2013
Language : English
File size : 4.0 MB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 248 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1623154146
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Customers find the book informative and easy to understand. It provides a concise and well-written overview of essential oils and aromatherapy. The recipes are detailed and cover common ailments, cosmetic uses, home and garden. Many readers consider it a valuable resource that offers great value for the price. The book also teaches how to blend essential oils and highlights their origins and properties.
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Amazon Customer –
Exactly What I Wanted!
I am fairly novice when it comes to essential oils but I’ve been pounding away at my keyboard researching the different properties of essential oils for over a month now. I finally decided that it would be best to break down and just buy a book… I didn’t want a book that was know-it-all and was going to tell me what to do with them, how to blend them and everything else, I wanted a book that would allow me to discover their individual properties alone. And I’m happy to report that this book does exactly that! Yes, there are some general guidelines, blend suggestions, recipes, etc., but what I wanted was info on each EO’s individual properties. This book has around 65 of the more common EOs with a breakdown of: Description, Origin, Properties, Application, Primary Uses, Blends and Safe Use.For a beginner book this is spot on and just what I had in mind while looking for a book of this nature. There is also plenty of room for me to add notes onto the information shared in this book. I think this will be my go to guide until I’m ready to graduate to something more intense, like Modern Essentials *5th Ed. I gave Essential Oils for Beginners a 5 star rating- And, overall, I recommend it as a great beginners guide with a completely functional layout and index. But if you’re on the fence here are some of my critiques:Safety:-Pregnancy: It definitely covers that a pregnant woman should talk to their primary care giver before using any EOs but it doesn’t spell out emmenagogue (menstruation inducing) properties in the Safe Use section of each EO or clearly state that an EO is safe for pregnancy. (Emmenagogue is however listed in the general Properties, so the info wasn’t omitted completely.)-Ingestion: While it does explain that only certain oils should be ingested and that they need to be 100% therapeutic grade, it doesn’t always spell out if an EO is safe for ingestion. I would have appreciated if it specifically stated if each EO is okay to ingest or that it’s recommended for external use only.Essential Oil Coverage:-Oil Selection: Some EOs didn’t make the cut- Sweet Marjoram, Star Anise and Oregano were some that I thought should have been chosen over some other, much more expensive and lesser known EOs like Hyssop and Spikenard.-Limited Species: The book mentions but fails to explore multiples species of plants commonly used to make EOs, (like Eucalyptus globulus vs. radiata.) The book only describes one instead of comparing and contrasting the different properties of each. I forgive this completely because it is a beginner book, and I know that is getting pretty technical, however, it is noteworthy. If you’re looking for something a little more in depth this book may be a bit below your radar.
Customer reviewer –
Is aromatherapy for you? This is a helpful guide with more info than you can possibly need!
I wanted to get started in aromatherapy, and the books at the library were dated and seemed unprofessional. I wanted a concise guide that explains how it works, and how to use the oils, but that I could refer to when I buy different oils.This is perfect. It starts with the basics of how and why and also how best to use the oils. This is invaluable because it gave warnings but also offered usage ideas I would have never thought of. Most surprising was that some oils can interfere with prescription medicines and help is given to avoid that.The number of oils it covers is endless, I only marked about ten I want to try. But with those, I have plenty of information on how best to use them and what NOT to do. I have heard so many promises of aromatherapy for health improvement that I really wanted to see if they’d work for me.For example, Dr. Oz reported in a recent O magazine that Lavender oil helps with sleep apnea. Pretty bold statement, so I did the research with this book and indeed, bought the oil (here on Amazon). I am enjoying trying it in varying ways.It also discusses helpful blends for stress, etc. I haven’t tried that yet but some look promising. I used to think aromatherapy was too new age for me, but the realization that the pharmaceutical industry is really quite new and for milleniums, people used these healthful oils for health. I’d like to cut out some of my medications (namely Ambien) and go more natural. I’ll post an update to this review if I have any spectacular results or detrimental problems.
Liza –
Good beginner book but doesn’t read as well as the kindle version
I wanted a simple book to thumb through quickly to find what I needed to know, and this is it. However the font is smaller than it should be. It’s not only that my eyes are a lot older, even though they are. But compared to other books the font is too small! Also there is extra room at the bottom so they probably could have gone up one size and still kept to the same page numbers.Other than that the book is a good size for the basics. Contents, recipes for blends, a Glossary, Resources and a few references as well as other recommended reading and of course a good Index help offset the lack of author information. It is not my only book but it’s good to not feel like I’m getting lost in a big Kindle book.
ToPaintwithWords –
The Benefits of Essential Oils
Do you have stomach trouble? Low mood? How about skin irritation? All of these conditions and more can be alleviated by the use of essential oils. Essential oils have been used by man since the dawn of time to heal and restore balance to the human body.This book, Essential Oils for Beginners, The Guide to Get Started with Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, is packed with information about how to use essential (or volatile) oils to benefit your health and your household. What exactly is an essential oil and where they come from? They are basically concentrated plant extracts drawn from the seeds, bark, sap, flowers, or even the entire plant to utilize their medicinal or cosmetic qualities. While a herbal might use the more than 300 kinds of plant extracts, the average person will stick to approximately 20 common essential oils.There is a thorough history of how through the centuries healers administered these oils in many forms. There is an encyclopedic wealth of data about essential oils and aromatherapy. Not only are the typical essential oils covered, like peppermint, lavender, chamomile, and eucalyptus but also such unfamiliar plant as bergamot, galbanum, and helichrysum. Instructions are given so that the beginner can safely and easily create your own preparations to feel better, look more lovely, and improve the environment of your home. So if you would like to benefit from this exciting and ancient skill, I would recommend this book.
VC –
Essential oil I information
Jacqueline Vigeant –
It was easy to read, kept me informed and gave me a lot of examples on how to use the essential oils. I am looking forward to trying them.
Shveta –
Enjoyed reading the explanations and information, along with easy to follow recipes. Will definitely try some of them. A must read for anyone interested in essential oils.
Sonja –
Great book
light_imp –
Great little reference Bible just exactly what I needed after building up my collection of oils for looking up their benefits and what they blend with. The majority of the book is a reference list of oils with three chapters on all you needs to know from safety, history and much more besides. It is really informative and plenty enough to get you started. The only problem is that it is missing some oils I have like may chang, pine needle and vanilla. But still references over 100 oils and is well worth the £5 I paid. It has lots of recipes for ailments, wellbeing, cosmetics, soap, candles, air fresheners, cleaning solutions, perfumes