Product Description

Aromatherapy offers countless uses, from cosmetics to therapeutics for balancing body, mind, and spirit. Drawing on 75 combined years of experience in botanical therapies, Keville and Green update their complete guide with the latest information for aromatherapy practitioners and students, providing an invaluable resource that includes more than 90 formulas for using essential oils in health and first aid, skin and hair care, massage, relaxation, and more.

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Product Details

Publisher	Crossing Press
ISBN	1580911897
Format	Paperback
Author	Kathi Keville,Mindy Green
EAN	9781580911894
Label	Crossing Press
Edition	2
Dewey Decimal Number	615.3219
Studio	Crossing Press
Number Of Pages	256
Title	Aromatherapy: A Complete Guide to the Healing Art
Release Date	2008-12-16
Publication Date	2008-12-16
Manufacturer	Crossing Press

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Customer Reviews

good book so far

Review by vagabond phoenix, 2010-01-30

I haven't read all the way through it, but it seems moderately comprehensive. It's not a text book but it's not a totally generalized beginners book, either.

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Just what I was looking for.

Review by SJSSarah, 2010-01-23

As a beginner to aromatherapy I found that this book was an excellent starter book that doesn't over simplify techniques, but is still easy to use and enables you to understand and apply the methods. The book is layed out very well. Each oil is described thoroughly by origin, family, extraction, medicinal action, cosmetic/skin use, and emotional attributes. The reader will learn the many different uses of aromatherapy. The book also reviews safe use of aromatherapy. I highly recommend this well written book for anyone starting to use aromatherapy.

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Know Your Aromas

Review by Joseph S. Maresca, 2009-12-06

The volume contains very valuable aromas for
the home, bedroom, job, gym and personal fragrances.
Some important applications are as follows:

o ants- camphor, pine and peppermint
o clothes- lavender and sage
o hair- lavender, eucalyptus, oregano, peppermint, thyme
o garden- garlic, anise, basil and chamomile
o circulation-ginger, lemon grass, eucalyptus
o oils for blood vessels (chamomile, lemon, cedarwood)
o sports massage oils are clove, basil, cinnamon and sage
o gym oils are peppermint,camphor and eucalyptus
o antiviral oils are bay, eucalyptus, garlic, black pepper,
clove buds, lavender, sage and thyme
o fragrance oils are lavender, lemon balm and peppermint
o hair growth (Vitamin E, ginger, peppermint, basil )
o colds and sinus- eucalyptus
o ear infections (lavender, tea tree oil
o fevers- lavender

This book is a treasure chest of information on fine oils.

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Good starter book

Review by Debbie, 2009-11-17

This book gave suggestions for using both herbs and essential oils in health and beauty applications. It covered the use of herbs and essential oils in massage, in cooking, and in making perfume and beauty products like lip balm, lotions, daily skin care, shampoos, and so on. They gave enough scientific and detailed information that a person could safely and competently make their own mixes to achieve a desired effect. In the back, they also included quick-reference charts covering what essential oil was good for what. Overall, it covered a wide variety of information in good depth.

The authors kept to a fairly scientific approach to essential oils. Some books view essential oils in a mystical way, like they are a magical source of healing or courage/love/etc. potions. In my view, essential oils are simply naturally-derived medicines, and very effective ones at that, so I appreciated how they approached essential oils.

My one "complaint" is that the section detailing what each essential oil could do listed so many things for each oil that I couldn't believe they all did practically everything (at least, that's what it looked like on first reading). I wanted to know what each oil really did do, not all the uses people have ever used it for. So I bought "Advanced Aromatherapy" Kurt Schnaubelt, which clearly explains a number of scientific studies on what various essential oils do. That's the book I primarily refer to now, and it's always been correct.

So, if you're interested in learning more about essential oils, this is a great starter book. I'd also recommend "Advanced Aromatherapy" Kurt Schnaubelt.


Review by Debbie from Different Time, Different Place (differenttimedifferentplace. blogspot. com)

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Review by Tina Balode, 2007-07-04

It's not bad book, but I expected a bit more info according to the title of the book, in my opinion it's not a COMPLETE art of healing....
But there is some useful info anyway!

Thanks!!

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