Product Description

Essential oils are a natural and healthy alternative to chemical cosmetics and skin treatments. They can also help soothe and heal your body, emotions, and spirit. This comprehensive illustrated reference explains how to choose and use essential oils for beauty and personal care, physical and mental health, relaxation, and as aids to meditation. It includes contains complete instructions for aromatherapy-based skin and body treatments and for making your own creams and lotions; remedies to help overcome worry, anger, stress, depression and other troubling emotions; aromatherapy techniques to enhance self-massage, sports massage, and intimate massage; first aid and healing techniques for simple ailments and for use in pregnancy and with babies, children, and the elderly; and aromatherapy meditations for calm, insight, and clarity and for psychic cleansing. It also includes a Directory of Essential Oils giving the properties and uses of 75 common and exotic oils.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #129346 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

About the Author
GILL FARRER-HALLS HAS WORKED AS A WRITER, EDITOR, AND VIDEO MAKER OF BOOKS AND VIDEOS ON AROMATHERAPY AND MEDITATION. SHE IS AUTHOR OF 'MEDITATIONS AND RITUALS USING AROMATHERAPY OILS,' 'CREATING CALM,' AND THE BESTSELLING 'ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BUDDHIST WISDOM,' SHE PRACTICES AND TEACHES AROMATHERAPY IN OXFORD.

Customer Reviews

Really good beginners guide
I got this as one of my first aromatherapy books, its a really useful beginners guide. There is a section that details each oil, its physical and "emotional" properties which also includes (very importantly) notes of caution where necessary.

The book is well presented, easy to read and use as a reference.

Aromatherapy make easy and fun!
I was looking for a book that gave a rough but imformative guide to aromatherapy and it certainly delivered. It's great for a beginer (like me) but it's also a great reference guide for the more experienced. The infomation is well writen, to the point but also very informative. it includes all the main branches of aromatherapy, to give the reader a well rouned view of the whole subject. This book is also fun to read as it's colouurful! i really didn't want to buy a book full of writing and no pictures, as i knew i was more likely to put it down. but i read this book in two days and have learnt so much. A bad point is that it assumes the reader is a bit dim in the explanations of things (although that's probably because i am a science sudent)

Overall i think it's a great book and well worth buying.

a great little book
This is a well presented book that covers many aspects of aromatherapy. There is a section detailing the effects and uses of each oil, details on how to adminster a massage to yourself or to a partner and sections on how to treat various ailments and conditions. There is also a section on making mood perfumes. The book can be read through or can be used to dip into as needed. A good, easily accessible reference book.