The essential beginner’s guide to healing with essential oils.The Beginner’s Guide to Essential Oils puts the power of natural healing in your hands. This simple guide distills the knowledge you need to unlock the potential of commonly found essential oils. Start making nourishing, all-natural, and affordable remedies to treat a variety of conditions—even make your own skin care and home cleaning … your own skin care and home cleaning products.
Explore the many modern applications of essential oils, from herbal medicine to aromatherapy to natural beauty. Discover profiles detailing the aromas and therapeutic actions of 30 favorite essential oils. Breathe easy with guidelines for safe use during pregnancy and instructions on diluting formulas for babies and children. You can begin your journey right away with any of the 100 included recipes for health and home.
In The Beginner’s Guide to Essential Oils, you’ll find:
- 30 essential oil profiles—Find practical applications, blending and substitution suggestions, and more for 30 common essential oils.
- 10 complementary oils—Learn the properties and best uses of 10 popular “carrier” oils you can use to dilute your essential oils.
- 100 useful recipes—Enjoy the benefits of essential oils with recipes for salves, sprays, roll-on perfumes, and more.
Blend the healing power of essential oils into your life with The Beginner’s Guide to Essential Oils!
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Easy to understand format keeping it simple and basic. The book is printed in easy to read print and on sturdy paper. It’s a very good guide to using common essential oils. The book explains how essential oils work, how you can benefit from them, and how to use them safely. There are individual profiles of the 30 most commonly used oils. You are also given 100 recipes to start your journey to improving your physical and mental health. The Beginner’s Guide to Essential Oils is a wonderful guide to explain essential oils without getting overwhelmed. A must read for anyone who wants to find more natural ways of healing via essential oils.
The Beginner’s Guide to Essential Oils: Everything you need to know to get started by Christina Anthis
August 2019
Althea Press/Callisto Media
Health, Wellness, nonfiction
Rating: 5/5
The author was diagnosed at 10 yo with scoliosis requiring several spinal surgeries. The sequela of nerve pain, narcolepsy and a chronically poor immune system proved more than she could handle. This propelled her interest and education into natural healing with plants.
She details the history of modern medicine and its roots derived from the past use of plants. She is the author of a blog (Hippyhomemaker.com) addressing health and aromatherapy to improve health naturally. The book is nicely organized into three sections which succinctly address each topic.
In section 1, she provides an interesting history of the origins of essential oils and aromatherapy dating back to 2,500 BCE in Egypt. Natural healing is the foundation of Ayurvedic medicine.
Of note, Aromathérapie (1937) by Rene-Maurice Gattefosse, was written by this perfume chemist who treated soldiers during WWI with essential oils. Likewise, oils were utilized during WWII by French army surgeon Jean Valnet.
In the USA, Robert Tisserand remains the expert in the science and safety of oils with his comprehensive 1977 manual, The Art of Aromatherapy. It is the reference used as the Standard of Essential Oils practice for safety. The safe use of essential oils cannot be over emphasized with the abundance of oils being marketed. There are only a few organizations which set guidelines for proper use: Associate French Normalization Organization Regulation and the Alliance of International Aromatherapist are two the author mentions.
I am a medical professional who uses essential oils for health and wellness. Although I’m not trained as an aromatherpist, I certainly agree with the necessity to ensure that people have accurate information regarding the use of essential oils. I find the chemistry of the plants essential oils fascinating but that would not keep most readers interest. The author explains the importance of diluting oils in appropriate carrier oils. Most people might be surprised to learn that there are recommendations regarding the percentage of dilution. It is important to consider the person, their health and desired results.
I was particularly interested in the explanation of blending oils according to the aroma notes and length of evaporation. Aroma top notes evaporate quickly 1-2 hours, which includes many of the citrus oils. Middle note oils evaporate within 2-4 hours, such as pepper, cinnamon, chamomile, rose and tea tree. Base notes are the longest to evaporate; cedar wood, frankincense, ginger, vanilla, vétiver.
In section 2, the most common 30 essential oils are provided in alphabetical order outlining the specifics of each oil.
Section 3 provides 100 recipes for application and use of essential oils which are categorized for: physical health, home, family and emotional well-being. The book concludes with numerous references and sources.
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Everywhere you look, there is someone selling, or talking about essential oils, and the the healing properties they have. I was interested, but found using search engines too overwhelming, and not really knowing if the articles were trustworthy.
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I found it to be a very informative book. I learned a lot about what essential oils do, what carrier oils work best, and what oils work together. I took notes, and can’t wait to try making my own oils.