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 500 Formulas for Aromatherapy: Mixing Essential Oils for Every Use
ASIN: 0806905840
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book!
Comments: This is an incredible book. The formulas are excellent and there is such an enormous selection to choose from. It takes the guessing work out of blending. I never thought that I could make so many wonderful formulas with essential oils. I recommend it highly to anyone either starting to use essential oils or already using these great oils.
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 Making Aromatherapy Creams and Lotions: 101 Natural Formulas to Revitalize and Nourish Your Skin
ASIN: 1580172415
Customer's Rating: 2
Summary: Impractical for all but the most avid home cosmetic maker
Comments: It took me less than an hour after receiving this book to realize that most of the cream and lotion recipes are impractical for me to do. Not only that, the author seems to favor the use of highly processed ingredients. She appears to be far more concerned with the texture or appearance of her creams than with their being as unprocessed as possible. As I read through the book, I found myself wondering how in the world anyone with a life could find the time to hunt down all the ingredients (many are quite exotic, and she doesn't suggest substitutes), let alone prepare them. I was quite disappointed. There are many easier-to-procure-ingredients which will be just as therapeutic for the skin. The description on the back cover is definitely misleading. Most of the creams and lotions are time consuming to prepare and simply not practical (and definitely NOT easy!). I decided to return the book 1 hour after I received it from amazon. The two stars in my rating are for the presentation (it's a pretty book).
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 The Essential Oils Book: Creating Personal Blends for Mind and Body
ASIN: 0882669133
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent for the Beginner Aromatherapist
Comments: I purchased this book for the purpose of getting advice on creating my own blends using essential oils. The recipes included in this book are versatile and provide enough background info to enable the reader to achieve this goal. The author transmits friendly excitement about integrating essential oils into our daily routines. Her writings act as a guide to the beginner and encourage him/her to look for new uses of aromatherapy.
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 Aromatherapy - An A to Z
ASIN: 0852072953
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: great stuff
Comments: i borrowed this book from the library (before i bought it!) and it was a good read. It is thorough, well presented, and has enough recipes to get you started. You are steered on the right path in terms of oils that you should be cautious with ( which is a far cry from the recipes that you get on the 'net that just throws out any oil/herb combination without telling you the risks). For a starter aromatherapist, i can truly say that i do feel confident with the products that i make for myself and my family. It is really worth the price and more. You will find yourself reaching for it over and over again.
The reason why i gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is that the illustrations could have been more oraganized, and more attractively done. It may sound like splitting hairs, but if you tried to use the illustrations as a guide for plants for infused oils, you may be disappointed.
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 Aromatherapy: Recipes for Your Oil Burner
ASIN: 0732259142
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent resource
Comments: If you are a dabbler in aromatherapy and enjoy the aroma oils give then this book is a fantastic reference. I have enjoyed many combinations from this book. Just remember to use true essential oils not synthetic ones to get the true effect from the aromas.
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 Well Being: Rejuvenating Recipes for the Body and Soul
ASIN: 0811825930
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: What a beautiful book!
Comments: I bought this on a whim when it was recommended to me and couldn't be more thrilled with this purchase! What a beautifully presented book, packed with rejuvenating recipes for inner and outer health and beauty, and written with the beginner in mind. It is very informative, easy to follow, and the ingredients can easily be found by anyone near a health food store or internet access. It's apparent that Barbara Close knows what she's doing as an aromatherapist and I can only imagine that her holistic spa must be absolutely wonderful considering the attention, care and fine taste that went into this book. I plan to give copies of this as gifts and am sure anyone who receives it will be as enthralled with it and ready to try their own recipes as I am. Five stars!
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 Seasons of Aromatherapy: Hundreds of Restorative Recipes and Sensory Suggestions
ASIN: 157324144X
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: I love this book!
Comments: I have purchased a number of aromatherapy books over the past year or so and taken out about every one my local library holds. This book far exceeds them all for practical, accesible knowledge. They make it fun and start you out with oils that most people can afford. Some of the books I have list recipes, supposedly for beginners, that use 10 drops of rose absolute, jasmine and the more expensive or unusual oils. That's all well and good, but for someone just getting into aromatherapy, they aren't likely to spend... $$$ for a 1/4 oz. bottle of rose EO.
This book is easy to understand, the recipes are easy to make and easy to enjoy and the information provided is good. They start out with oils that are affordable and easily found, but also present special oils each month, like jasmine, frankinsence, and rose, that one can "move up to".
The only thing I wish they had made more clear or stressed more was about applying oils neat. Some of the recipes aren't clear about that and for someone who is just starting, they may not realize that there aren't a lot of oils that you want to use neat due to their strength.
Anyway, great book! I love it.
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 Aromatherapy Handbook for Beauty, Hair, and Skin Care
ASIN: 089281831X
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: If you only buy one book, make it this one!
Comments: This book is wonderfully complete. Mr. Keller gives both the "big picture" as well as the necessary details.
For beginners, there are more recipes than you could hope for
- and not just variations of a few basic recipes. He truly delivers with a rich collection of beauty, hair and skin care recipes.
For those a little more daring, the book provides a nice balance of background and theory. I feel confident experimenting with my own recipes now, and can knowledgably create the product I intend. (As opposed to wasting money on lots of surprises and/or disappointments.)
I only wish I'd found this book before the last half dozen or so books I purchased on natural cosmetics and essential oils.
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 Complete Aromatherapy Handbook: Essential Oils for Radiant Health
ASIN: 0806982225
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Complete Aromatherapy Handbook
Comments: Informative! This book is chocked full of information on essential oils. Written and organized in easy to follow format. The blending recipes are a real treat for any beginner. Although this is a paper back (large edition)the graphics and color are eyecatching. THIS BOOK IS A WELCOME ADDITION TO MY REFERENCE LIBRARY ON AROMATHERAPY.
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 Good Gifts from the Home: Oils, Lotions, and Other Luxuries--Make Beautiful Gifts to Give (or Keep)
ASIN: 0761525440
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: Great for Beginners
Comments: Kelly Reno has done a great job of writing books that are helpful for those just starting out. It is amazing that you can make your own lotions and change the scents to match yourself or your friends. The lotions are heavy and greasy, but I think its because our idea of lotions are those that are so heavy with lotions (with alcohols) that we expect it to soak right in instead of using the healing properties of the oils.
The bath beads turned out great. My first batch was great, but all the rest (go figure) I had to add a little more dry product to it so it wasn't so sticky. Its like cooking, its all an experiment and you just have to "season" it the way you like it.
Highly reccommended!
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 Create Your Own Aromatherapy Perfumes: Enchanting Blends for Body and Home
ASIN: 0749919647
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: an excellent and comprehensive source
Comments: i love this book. if you are interested in finding out how to scent anything, be it your body, hair, skin, lotions, bath oils, or your living room -- this book is a great place to start. It is a marvelous introduction to aromatherapy focussing on teaching the basic principles you will need to understand in order to create your own blends. The book also lists a mulititude of excellent sample blends and imparts a wealth of knowledge on the essential oils and how to use them effectively. there's something in here for everyone.
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 Making Herbal Dream Pillows : Secret Blends for Pleasant Dreams (The Spirit of Aromatherapy)
ASIN: 1580170757
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: Actually, I like this for what it covers...
Comments: It's an interesting book. Much more than I thought it would be. I originally purchased this book for a soap and toiletries book reveiw list, and ended up reading it through. It is easy to understand and simple to follow.
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 Aromatic Candles
ASIN: 0806987359
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Individual gifts: aromatic candles
Comments: Excellent book with a good background on etheric oils, how to recognise and combine them and finally how to prepare candles using the different oils. The book has a very nice layout with a lot of pictures inviting to be very creative!
Material needed is quite a lot (especially if you start from scratch) but if preparation of candles is not a "one-shot-event" it is definitely a good investment. After a little bit of training these candles are the best presents to good friends and you can be sure to be invited again! ;-)
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 Aromatherapy for Vibrant Health and Beauty/a Practical A to Z Reference of Aromatherapy Treatments for Health, Skin, and Hair Problems Using Essential
ASIN: 0895296276
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Great starter book
Comments: Roberta Wilson has created a very useful, friendly, fun book. I have several books on aromatherapy and essential oils, and this is the one I refer to the most often. Ms. Wilson has included a reference section, which provides the folklore and herbal heritage, medicinal uses, emotional effects, primary actions, and cautions of each oil. There are many recipies to try and follow, along with suggestions for creating my own formulas, as well as ways to use the blends, such as in a diffuser, straight from the mixture bottle, etc. A resource guide, recommended reading, and bibliography are in the back of the book. I have other books on aromatherapy, but this one is the cornerstone of my collection, and the one I use most often.
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 Water Magic: Healing Bath Recipes for the Body, Spirit, and Soul
ASIN: 0684801426
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Best Bath Book Ever
Comments: This book gives you wonderful healing and restorative recipes for a large number of purposes. It resides on the bathroom counter at my house and is used often for absolutely delightful bathing experiences.
The Chinese Ginger Bath is a must-have recipe for those with flu or viral symptoms! The Yogi's Aura Cleansing Bath feels great and truly does the uplifting she describes. Fun titles of each section and bathing experience make for a good read too.
This is a great gift book to yourself or someone you love.
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 The Good Herb: Recipes and Remedies from Nature
ASIN: 0688179029
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Not for Beginners
Comments: Although I don't recommend this book for beginners (some of the recipes are time consuming and complicated), it is an excellent resource for chefs who love fresh herbs. Every recipe I have used from this book has turned out wonderfully. In fact, I love this book so much that I have given it as a gift to several friends of mine. If you love to serve good food and you want to feel good about the food you serve, this is the cookbook for you. Bon appetit!
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 Aromatherapy: A Lifetime Guide to Healing With Essential Oils
ASIN: 0133494322
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: Great Reference
Comments: Great imformation and introduction into the world of Aromatheraphy. 100's of recipes with clear mixing and safety instructions. I've been reading lots of material on Aromatheraphy this one is my favorite. I refer to chap 15 - Blending How-To's every time I create a blend! This book will motivate you to start creating. I used 'Hearts and Roses Aromatheraphy 101 Kit' to get started, which includes 10 oils. I am looking to move on to essential oils that are not only 100% pure but are also ORGANIC (and more expen$ive). As Cooksley explains, these are chemical free (ie: no insecticides, etc. used in growing)...buy the book!
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 More Aromatherapy Recipes from Around the World
ASIN: 0732271355
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Informative
Comments: Having read most available books on aromatherapy, this one is by far the best. It's easy to read, inspiring me to go out and buy all the oils to enjoy the many easy recipes for mood enhancement, relaxation etc. For a mature woman, the recipes and advice using all natural therapies, have really helped alleviate many "women's problems" and made my home a place of warmth, love and (when I want to) seclusion. It certainly helped me heal myself. I'm already looking forward to her next book! :)
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 Scents and Scentuality: Essential Oils and Aromatherapy for Romance, Love, and Sex
ASIN: 1577310756
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: A useful guide for more advanced work
Comments: I agree that there should be warnings about a few of the oils mentioned in this book. That aside, it is well worth getting if you are more experienced and know something about the oils already. It is full of many ideas and recipes specific to romantic and sexual aromatherapy, and would help complete that area of your library. I recommend it not as a basic, but as something more in depth.
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 Aromatherapy for the Healthy Child: More Than 300 Natural, Non-Toxic, and Fragrant Essential Oil Blends
ASIN: 1577310950
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: well worth it
Comments: I took an aromatherapy weekend seminar as an introductory to this fascinating subject. Was I surprised as to how interesting and versitile aromatherapy is. As a mother of 4 young children,I have always used natural medicine as a first priority and this has saved us many trips to the doctor and many doses of unwarranted antibiotics. I did not realize the potential that essential oils possess until I took the seminar. I bought this book after I took the seminar and have used it lots especially the oil blends for respiratory problems. I also have used her other book called The Fragrant Pharmacy and this book is LOADED with information. This lady knows her oils and is one of the best there is.You won't regret buying it!
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 Creating Fairy Garden Fragrances (The Spirit of Aromatherapy)
ASIN: 1580170765
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Even if you don't believe in fairies...
Comments: This is a colorful little book packed with numerous (fairy friendly) recipes for enchanting creations. Lovely as a coffee table book and also makes a great gift for your crafty friends. I can't wait to try all of her ideas!
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 Magic and Power of Lavender
ASIN: 0941524884
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: It's already said in the title: magical and powerful!
Comments: The book is a great way to begin using essential oils. And Maggie Tisserand and Monika Juneman are the perfect teachers. True, there are alot of other books out there on aromatherapy but none that are as simply and personally written as this one.
Lavender is one of the most versatile and helpful of all the essential oils and Maggie is one of the best aromatherapists around. Using lavender has saved me many a doctor's bill and much worry when my little ones were ill. Bathing them often in lavender baths kept their little bodies cooled without breaking the fevers, which would have made their illnesses last longer. Within 24 hours, the child was back on his feet like before. Talk about magic and power! On vacations lavender has saved us from sleepless nights, bee bite allergies, fevers, colds, sore throats, bronchitis... even hangovers. I have bought several copies of this lovely book for gifts for new moms. I myself read Maggie's other book, Aromatherapy for Women prior to my second pregnancy and that is when I began using aromatherapy in baths, which I continue even now, for I have found it to be the absolute best form of preventive medicine around.
The book talks about the history of lavender and how it has been cultivated and used since antiquity. There are great ideas of using it therapeutically today to enhance strength and wellbeing in everyday life, as well as practical hints on growing, drying and blending lavender with other oils to make synergestic blends. Toward the end, the chapter entitled odds and ends gives yet other original ideas for using lavender.
I love this book. Maggie and Monika share their experiences with the reader, which makes you feel like they are right there encouraging you. Thanks Maggie and Monika for a truly essential and agreable read!
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 The Aromatherapy Kitchen: Recipes for Health and Beauty Using Essential Oils
ASIN: 0855328886
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Very Pleased!
Comments: Great guidebook! Pity there is not an image available for its listing - it deserves more attention.
Beautifully illustrated, offering an abundance of recipes for lovely soaps, lotions, massage oils, shampoos, shower gels, facial cleansers, toners... help for digestion, circulation, skin-care, moods, stress, water retention... and lots more in there! These are quite easy and enjoyable to make.
This book is appropriate for even beginning hobbyists, as it explains the basics of working with essential oils (including cautions), and lists therapeutic values of the various EO's used in these recipes; also lists properties of several carrier oils. Each step is well outlined so that even the novice can prepare these to perfection.
Great for making gifts to give, or you could even give this book itself as a gift! It would be very well received by anyone with an interest in a more natural, healthful lifestyle - especially those who enjoy being creative. I'm ordering a few more to give as gifts along with sample items prepared from the book.
I look forward to many years of making special soaps and lotions for family and friends (and myself!). The several different massage oils are fabulous and particularly quick and easy to prepare. This book is most definitely worth the small price tag, I'm so happy I bought it.
It is magazine-size; firm, glossy cover (not hardback, but firmer than paperback); nice quality gloss pages and lovely photo illustrations. Highly recommended.
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 The Healing Aromatherapy Bath: Therapeutic Treatments Using Meditation, Visualization and Essential Oils
ASIN: 1580171974
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: informative, helpful and very insightful
Comments: This book has shown me how I can derive the maximum benefit from aromatherapy baths by utilizing multiple diciplines such as meditation, and visualization in conjunction with the bath. I have also learned to demystify the effects of essential oils from the easy to understand explanations of these oils by Ms. Lazzara. She writes in a manner that makes it easy for the lay person to understand and therefore incorporate the multi-discipline approach in the aromatherapy bath. I have clearly derived better results from aromtherapy baths since I began following the suggestions that Ms. Lazzara has provided in her book. Thank you Margo.
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