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This NYR guide to essential oils contains all the information required about essential oils and how to use them to improve general health, ease stress and treat ailments. Written by an expert on the subject, it describes 42 widely used oils, listing their therapeutic properties, their psychological profiles and their most common uses. A special feature is a handy chart showing at a glance which oils are most effective for which conditions. The book is illustrated throughout with specially commissioned colour photos.
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A director of Neal's Yard Remedies and qualified homeopath, Susan Curtis has over 20 years experience of natural medicines and has written several books on the subject. She is also an expert on essential oils and flower remedies and uses both regularly in her homeopath practice.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm new to aromatherapy and decided not to waste my money on the current magazines that are circulating, instead I visited my local library and borrowed this book.
It was so informative and basic enough for to understand that I bought it.
A great introduction for those of us who have just discovered this fine art.
It was so informative and basic enough for to understand that I bought it.
A great introduction for those of us who have just discovered this fine art.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a good introductory book for any beginner.
It contains basic information about essential oils: what they are, how they are obtained, how they are used.
It then brings a catalogue of some of the most popular essential oils. Two pages per each essential oil, with information about its properties and how to use it.
At the end there are some recipes to blend essential oils for some common purposes: sensual massage, skin care, detox, stress reliever... etc
I do find it a bit irritating that the pages on each essential oil are not ordered alphabetically by the common names of the essential oils, but by their botanical names: thus, yarrow comes first, which you wouldn't expect. The botanical names are not as easy to remember as the common names. This means that it is a bit more difficult to find the information you want quickly. Although there is a name index at the end of the book. Still I think that ordering the essential oils by their common names would have been better.
On the whole, a good buy. Nicely printed, nicely edited.
It contains basic information about essential oils: what they are, how they are obtained, how they are used.
It then brings a catalogue of some of the most popular essential oils. Two pages per each essential oil, with information about its properties and how to use it.
At the end there are some recipes to blend essential oils for some common purposes: sensual massage, skin care, detox, stress reliever... etc
I do find it a bit irritating that the pages on each essential oil are not ordered alphabetically by the common names of the essential oils, but by their botanical names: thus, yarrow comes first, which you wouldn't expect. The botanical names are not as easy to remember as the common names. This means that it is a bit more difficult to find the information you want quickly. Although there is a name index at the end of the book. Still I think that ordering the essential oils by their common names would have been better.
On the whole, a good buy. Nicely printed, nicely edited.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Susan Curtis has written a very useful book, balanced between being a MUCH better than average 'coffee table/introduction to aromatherapy' book for the layperson AND a useful adjunct to more in depth books such as The Complete Guide to Aromatherapy or Aromatherapy for Health Professionals which are texts of choice for the student (and indeed, professional practitioner) It can be very helpful to have a simpler, but still knowledgeable book to use to refresh back to basics knowledge, rather than feeling a bit overwhelmed by a 'depth text'
Curtis is not an aromatherapist herself, though she is a CAM practitioner. She is also medicines' director of Neal's Yard Remedies (and has been, for many years) Her knowledge of aromatherapy is I surmise a great deal deeper than the knowledge most aromatherapists have of HER modality (homoeopathy).
Unlike the reviewer who said that arranging the oils alphabetically by their botanical name is less useful than by common name, I believe that it is the botanical listing which in part raises it above the 'coffee table set' - who often just repeat the same old same old, copied and lifted from each other.
Curtis has a PROFOUND respect for the plants, not just for the little bottles of essential oils. And it is by understanding the importance of botany that any foundation must happen - whether the user is a professional or a keen layperson anxious to get acquainted with the oils. Buying by COMMON name alone is no guarantee of safety or efficacy. There are several oils which may be sold as 'Lavender' as 'Cedar' as 'Chamomile' to take but 3 examples, and buying one, and thinking it can be used as another, may be disastrous at worst and ineffective at best.
I really like the little usage snapshots/descriptions she produces for her 40 oils. Though a dedicated student will certainly want something more than this, its a great place to start
Curtis is not an aromatherapist herself, though she is a CAM practitioner. She is also medicines' director of Neal's Yard Remedies (and has been, for many years) Her knowledge of aromatherapy is I surmise a great deal deeper than the knowledge most aromatherapists have of HER modality (homoeopathy).
Unlike the reviewer who said that arranging the oils alphabetically by their botanical name is less useful than by common name, I believe that it is the botanical listing which in part raises it above the 'coffee table set' - who often just repeat the same old same old, copied and lifted from each other.
Curtis has a PROFOUND respect for the plants, not just for the little bottles of essential oils. And it is by understanding the importance of botany that any foundation must happen - whether the user is a professional or a keen layperson anxious to get acquainted with the oils. Buying by COMMON name alone is no guarantee of safety or efficacy. There are several oils which may be sold as 'Lavender' as 'Cedar' as 'Chamomile' to take but 3 examples, and buying one, and thinking it can be used as another, may be disastrous at worst and ineffective at best.
I really like the little usage snapshots/descriptions she produces for her 40 oils. Though a dedicated student will certainly want something more than this, its a great place to start
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