The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, Revised and Expanded: Over 800 Natural, Nontoxic, and Fragrant Recipes to Create Health, Beauty, and Safe Home and Work Environments
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Completely updated essential oils book: The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy might be the best aromatherapy book available anywhere. And, it just got better!
If you liked Modern Essentials, you’ll love this essential oils favorite: The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, Revised and Expanded is a necessary resource for anyone interested in alternative approaches to healing and lifestyle. This new edition contains more than 800 easy-to-follow recipes for essential oil treatments from Valerie Ann Worwood, a consultant and expert on the clinical uses of essential oils internationally.
Explore the multitude of benefits of essential oils and aromatherapy: In her clear and positive voice, Worwood provides tools to address a variety of health issues, including specific advice for children, women, men, and seniors. This aromatheraphy book also covers self-defense against microbes and contaminants, emotional challenges, care for the home and workplace, and applications for athletes, dancers, travelers, cooks, gardeners, and animal lovers. Worwood also offers us her expertise in the use of essential oils in beauty and spa treatments, plus profiles of 125 essential oils, 37 carrier oils, and more.
An essential oils book classic for 25 years: Since the publication of the first edition of this book 25 years ago, the positive impact of essential oil use has become increasingly recognized, as scientific researchers throughout the world have explored essential oils and their constituents for their unique properties and uses.
From the Publisher
Publisher : New World Library; 25th Anniversary edition (November 15, 2016)
Language : English
Paperback : 712 pages
ISBN-10 : 1577311396
ISBN-13 : 978-1577311393
Item Weight : 2.5 pounds
Dimensions : 7.25 x 1.25 x 9 inches
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Customers find the book informative and useful for learning about essential oils and aromatherapy. They appreciate the clear charts and easy-to-follow organization. The recipes are practical and easy to understand. Many readers find it helpful for natural remedies and improving mental health. They consider it a great purchase and worth its price. The author has years of experience in aromatherapy, making it a favorite in their aromatherapy library.
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SqueakylittleDragon –
Huge book of Essential oils and uses
I just got into using Essential oils and decided I needed to find a good book that had the information I needed to know so I wouldn’t have to keep looking it up on my phone all the time .. now I had found several books , but this one seemed like the best choice after reading reviews and looking up information on Valerie ann worwood. So far I’m very happy with it, because it’s full of information that I haven’t seen in other books. Just so you know this book doesn’t have the fancy pictures or the super glossy pages that most people like when it comes to books like this, but honestly I don’t mind, because the lack of pictures means she was able to put more important and interesting information in the book. As you can see in my photos they have a section on cooking with essential oils and a few other pages on ingestible recipes for heath reasons. ..I saw in a review somone didn’t like that because it could be dangerous and yes it can be if you aren’t using food grade essential oils! You can find Food Grade essential oils on Amazon and Im sure at heath food stores. I wouldn’t recommend using Essential oils you buy for defusing or bath products etc etc , because some of those arnt top quality , they have something added to them , or they are fake essential oils ( I have already ran across some of those.ð ) so if it says do not ingest than I wouldn’t, but that’s up to you and if you want to risk it ! Overall I find this book to be a great reference book and I would recommend it !
Estudioso –
Indispensable!
This will explain why/what each EO is used for, and will give you TONS of possible recipe combinations that will prove useful in some way; it even provides the “essential” EOs you should buy/have on hand for most common situations.Only limitation could be that it is too much information as once; if you treat it as the reference it is though, you’ll find more than enough valuable info to justify the purchase price.
Jonna Baker –
Purchased for a girt and she loves it
Full of great information. Highly recommend
Natalie S. –
WOW, this book!!!!
This book is incredibly informative, and has gotten me ridiculously into essential oils!! The only thing I didn’t like right away was that some of the different sections of the book and the quick reference guide didn’t include all of the relevant oils and their applicable treatments… BUT this resulted in me going through the rest of the book and taking a ton of notes, and this book is so big that in doing this, I actually discovered more treatments for different ailments that I may not have found if I’d just looked at the reference guide. You can see in my photos that I’ve marked a LOT of pages and taken notes on the things that are most applicable to me personally, but there’s so much information in this book, that there’s guaranteed to be something in here for everyone!! It also provides precautions for certain oils, which I appreciate.
Pam Duell –
Very comprehensive yet easy to read and find information quickly.
I have a number of essential oil books and this one is a great addition. It’s very comprehensive yet not overwhelming or complicated. I bought this book for a friend who expressed an interest in essential oils and this is great book not only to start with but really all that is needed. Good recipes for a variety of needs.
Anne –
Filled with great information – But beware when using the animal section
This book does a relatively good job of giving a good overview of everything essential oils/aromatherapy. I will say though that it does not cover everything in detail, but she does have some other books that may delve more into specific areas. It has an index of all the essential oils she talks about (which from what I can tell is essentially every oil you would be able to find, minus maybe a few more obscure oils). I do want to say though that she suggests essential oil blends for animals, which is not necessarily safe. Many animal species have extreme sensitivities to essential oils, so you should never use them directly on your animal, and should use aromatherapy as little as possible around them. More information can be found on the ASPCA website. Other than that concern, I have had very good success with the blends that are in the book, and find that index mentioned earlier to be easy to determine what oils to use in my own blends.
Dee Shellem –
Great Book
Took me a bit to get into. Now that I have I am learning very useful things. I even purchased cute bookmarks to mark areas I need to look back and on.
LF6954 –
Actual recipes & doesn’t force certain brands!
I like the actual recipes and there are an absolute ton of them! I also like that it have options of other oils you could use in case you didn’t have a particular one. I also really liked that it didn’t force you to use the specialty mixed oils like from certain brands that are over $50 an ounce when you can get good quality oils for $10 or so per 3 to 4 oz!
Nayeli –
Voy comenzando en el mundo mágico de la herbolaria y aceites esenciales y queria tener un libro de referencia, uno confiable y no solo dejarme llevar por la recetas que encuentras en PinterestEste libro esta muy completo, explica muy bien el uso de los aceites, esta super bien organizado y me ha dado mucha confianza para usarlos sin miedo
Babaljeet kaur –
Awesome book. All the essential oil enthusiasts must have it. Great information with all the details of so many oils. Different categories are included, mostly covering all the aspects. Must have it. Loved it.
clarusca –
Fantástica enciclopedia, estructurada por temáticas de aplicación: enfermedades, bienestar, lugares de trabajo, hogar, estética, higiene personal y de hogar, etc. de rápido y fácil acceso. También información por sustancia.
Teri Bryans –
I wish this was the first book I had purchased regarding essential oils. Oh my goodness there is so much information, well written, SOOO well structured and it’s a beautiful book. When western medicine started failing me I started looking into alternative therapies and have come to adore essential oils and actually work with them myself and this book provided SO MUCH useful information and recipes.If you only ever purchase one book on essential oils make it this one. I am so happy with this purchase and anyone with an interest in oils I know will feel the same.
Amazon Customer –
When requiring information on a health subject all the core info needs to be in one place which this book has done incredibly in a very well structured manner..Oil safety, scientific experiment results & drug interactions are NOT included in this book beside each oil or in general but is “essential” to get that also for safety. This would have to be a seperate book it could be 700 – 1,000 more pages but there is a very very tiny general safety info section including alergic reaction, oils to avoid, pregnacy, but this says little. I personally would want an additional book for the pictures that show the colours of the oils and examples are good for learners and so on but ONLY “in addition” to this book so would still see this book as an absolute must. The cover is soft back. Id have bought hardback if available to preserve it as its huge & heavy with a wealth of info and “well” worth getting.The book is extra thick without images or colour besides black and grey. Writing is medium and readable. there are many some useful charts within various sections.There is a section with a list of oils (chart) that explains what each oil on the list is for.It says it includes 125 oils and absolutes on the listIt is in order of cataogory (e.g men, children, beauty, major illnesses and more.. more categories are listed below) then alphabetically in order of ailments within each of the catagories which means not scambling around to find which oil does what then searching for oils and blends for the ailment while the client or self- administrator is falling apart in the mean time.catgories are on things such blends for concerns and ailments etc for male, female, sports & dance, children, teenagers, travel care kit, animals, carrier oils, home spa, beauty, cooking recepies with oils, self defence kit, basic care kit, maturing years, fragences, hydrolatsa section for major health concerns (aprox 35 pages). within a catagory theres different common ailments and conerns with info about them and blends for each of them. Some ailments and concerns under one catagory is not always strictly for that catagory. Under women it has liver info. Pnumonia falls inder maturing years and there is a a lot of that in the book so theres heaps of concerns that some may class as major and/or semi-major still under each catagory..The book looks like it may have taken years and a lot of careful thought and it is well structured and highly comprehensive with explicit detail on “each” ailment.There is not just a handful of ailments in the “major health concerns” section but there is no ailment i have search & not found in the book and the information is indepth. for example; copd, colds, pelvic pain, sores, sexual health, alzheimers, dementia, cancer, stroke, muscles, injury, multiple sclorosis, chronic fatigue and more with a good amount of detailed info on each ailment.It also offers info on;* The actual ailment its-self with advice plus al list aromatherapy individual (single) oils plus an oil blend for each ailment..* the blend contains quite a few oils together for each ailment. 4-5 quite a lot and can be a bit more.*hydrolat chart for skin conditions.* the name & latin name of the oilsThe headings for the ailments are highlighted, bold & large so its easy to find them so its not a struggle to use by far.There is also;dilution informationmethods of use charts (bath/compress etc)basic oil kit list for common ailment list for the basic care kit with instuctions & oil blendstable including oils which are antibacterial, anti-viral & anti-fungel also confirming which oils on the list are one but not the other etc.oil travel kit infooils for babies infooils for children infopostnatal careinfo on politionplant infomental health informationThis a for highly professional use and except for a student that has just passed or doing an aromatherapy course and it ca be used ro teach from for an aromatherapy lecturer.Compared to other peoples prices for their aromatherapy books either this book is worth more or theirs os worth less as it does not match up to a single aromatherapy book ive ever seen and i have an abundance including electronic to compare it to. Usually theres things missing a smany books are in order of oils instead of ailments which is pointless if requiring a book with almkst everything.Please do this so we all help each other out; whenever discribing a book instead of saying; great book, good information, excellent buy, please do as i have done above so we have info on the contents in detail, an idear of layout, ifmf theres drawigs, colour photos, quality, quantity of info on each thing or just breif detail on each thing, main focus of the book and if it is ailement order or remedy order where applicable and as much “relevant detail” as possible so it helps us all buy he right books.I really hope the above helps you make an informed decision. Take care now.