Essential Oils & Aromatherapy: Your Personal Guide (In Focus)

In Focus Essential Oils & Aromatherapy is your quick guide to the qualities and healing effects of every major essential oil, including recipes for beauty, home, and health applications. Essential oils have been used for centuries and across many cultures in holistic remedies for all types of common ailments. Extracted from flowers, seeds, plants, and trees, natural oils are applied either topically or aromatically to give healing effects. This artfully designed guide gives you easy access to the information you need to use them effectively. After a detailed summary of each major oil, recipes of specific oil blends for numerous treatments are presented, including helpful hints and tips. With practice, and with In Focus Essential Oils & Aromatherapy in hand, you will be able to understand and use essential oils for countless purposes, including: ·Headaches ·Runny nose ·Allergies ·Common colds ·Cooking ·Perfume ·Deodorizing ·Stain removalThe In Focus series applies a modern approach to teaching the classic body, mind, and spirit subjects. Authored by experts in their respective fields, these beginner’s guides feature smartly designed visual material that clearly illustrates key topics within each subject. As a bonus, each book includes reference cards or a poster, held in an envelope inside the back cover, that give you a quick, go-to guide containing the most important information on the subject.

From the Publisher

Introduction to In Focus Essential Oils & Aromatherapy

Welcome to the fragrant art of aromatherapy. I have been using essential oils for many years for both health and beauty and have found them useful for the prevention and treatment of minor ailments and skin care. The life-enhancing qualities of this holistic system of medicine have provided my family and me with vital protection from colds, coughs, and flu during the winter months, and pleasure when used for skin and body care.

This ancient healing system has become very popular with the general public, and today many women’s magazines carry articles on essential oils and their uses. Aromatherapy has left the fringes and become complementary to mainstream medicine. The aim of this book is to introduce the layperson to the principles of this wonderful therapy so that readers, armed with a broad knowledge of the basics of these essential oils and their application, will be able to gain many health benefits by using the oils for prevention, healing, beauty, and pleasure.

What Is an Essential Oil?

An essential oil is the pure concentrated substance found in selected aromatic plants. The essential oils are distilled from herbs, flowers, spices, fruits, trees, woods, and resins. These oils are the basis for aromatherapy treatments. The extracted oil has also been described as the plant’s life force. The beneficial properties of pure essential oils are well known, and their status as natural, effective remedies with important physical and emotional benefits is widely accepted. Essential oils can be used in many different ways and for many different conditions. These very versatile oils are not used for just one purpose—they have multiple uses. You will find that many of the oils I mention in this book are used for a number of different conditions.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07KGPKN6N
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wellfleet Press
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 17, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 14.2 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 148 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0760363645
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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