Aromatherapy for Natural Health and Beauty is much more than just another book on essential oils. It is designed to help users attend to people no matter what their age is - from pregnancy, labor, babies, toddlers, children to adults. It contains a lot of knowledge between its covers including how aromatherapy works, essential oils and their chemical constituents, storage and purchasing of essential oils, selecting essential oils for individual conditions, spot treatment, skin irritation and most importantly, babies and essential oils, and where to apply essential oils.
The book details the benefits and uses of 20 carrier oils consisting of vegetable, nut, plant and seed oils such as almond, aloe vera, apricot kernel, arnica, evening primrose, grapeseed and jojoba to mention but a few. It teaches how to blend various carrier oils for different conditions. It uniquely teaches how to calculate essential oil drops in carrier oil for minimum and maximum doses. It also teaches maximum exposure of essential oils for adult males and females. It offers many formulation tables making referencing easy and effortless.
Many people need a good basic kit of essential oils. This book teaches how to tailor-make your own basic kit for you, and your family’s imbalances, which saves spending money on unnecessary oils. It makes the reader aware of toxic oils, and the difference between essential oils vs. herbs.
It details 51 essential oils listing their benefits for every system in the body. These essential oils, their properties and effects are then summarized for quick and easy referencing. In this book Cecilia uniquely teaches the grouping of essential oil in a manner never done before. The reader is also made aware of hazardous oils and oils that should be used with caution together with certain conditions, and essential oils that should be used with caution for those conditions.
A new but welcomed addition to the book is essential oils for emergency preparedness. There are many different ways in which essential oils can be used and the section on Treatment Variations is well demonstrated with numerous variations and many more formulations. It teaches how to make air and surfacesprays, use oils in a bath for different conditions, do hot and cold compresses, foot baths, gargle combinations, steam bowls and spot treatments, etc.
There is a large section on essential oils for general conditions from A-Z with essential oil and treatment recommendations for these conditions.
The psychological effects of essential oils is also covered focusing on essential oils vs. psychological conditions, as well as psychological conditions vs. essential oils.
In a fascinating way, essential oils are traced through the circulatory system covering coronary, cerebral, circulation, systemic, pulmonary and hepatic portal circulation with conditions that affect all of these systems together with essential oils recommended for relief of these imbalances.
The chapter on chemical constituents of essential oils also covers botany, purity and adulteration, common adulterations of essential oils and olfaction together with a chart on essential oil antiproperties.
A very fun and creative section in this book is Fragrance and Beauty which teaches, as well as give formulations for perfumes, bath oils, bath salts, hand creams, creams for general conditions, facial cream and exfoliation cream. Another section covers beauty care, hair care and advice especially for men.
For individuals who are serious about becoming a practitioner or aromatherapist, the section in the book covering Application of Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Aromatherapy teaches massage, preparing for a massage and important points to remember, contraindications to massage, code of ethics and a treatment plan, together with treatment and consultation durationand elimination symptoms. It has a list of clinic requirements, and meticulous suggestions for a health history form. A massage is demonstrated in detail with graphics as well as photographs.
The section on Pregnancy covers essential oils suitable for pregnancy, essential oils to be used with caution during pregnancy as well as essential oils to be avoided in pregnancy. General guidelines for the use of oils during pregnancy together with the application of essential oils and carrier oils are given. The Massage Formulation Table for Pregnancy and Lactationmakes it easy to reference the oils. There is even a Bath Formulation Table for Pregnancy and Lactation. A massage procedure for pregnancy and labor is detailed together with postnatal care. General conditions of pregnancy and post-pregnancy offers valuable and thorough advice.
Babies and Aromatherapy stipulate important points for a successful massage together with essential oils suitable for babies, as well as essential oils unsuitable for babies. Graphic and descriptive detail of a baby massage offers the opportunity to learn how to relax and sooth a baby. General conditions for babies and toddlers cover a list of common imbalances accompanied by essential oil and treatment suggestions.
The chapter on Children and Aromatherapy, like the sections preceding it, is also filled with valuable advice on which essential oils are suitable for children, which should be used with caution and which essential oils should be avoided with children who have not yet reached puberty. Essential oil drops for young children and adolescents are given in weight and age which make recommended drops easy to understand and apply. There are important points to rememberwhich is well explained and the list of general conditions for children, together with recommended oils and treatment makes this book unique.
Finally, a small section on animals and insects cover the essential oils recommended as flea, lice, tick, ants and rodent repellents. Formulation are given using insect and pet repellent essential oils to make insect repellent sprays for skin, clothing and surfaces.
The book ends with an easy to comprehend glossary of terms, and a detailed index which makes referencing information easy to find.
Very few books contain as much valuable, informative and educational material as Aromatherapy for Natural Health and Beauty. People worldwide have complemented the author on how detailed, yet easy to comprehend her book is. This in turn makes practical application simple and effective. This book lends the opportunity to individuals to become well trained aromatherapists
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Aromatherapy for Natural Health and Beauty is much more than just another book on essential oils. It is designed to help users attend to people no matter what their age is - from pregnancy, labor, babies, toddlers, children to adults. It contains a lot of knowledge between its covers including how aromatherapy works, essential oils and their chemical constituents, storage and purchasing of essential oils, selecting essential oils for individual conditions, spot treatment, skin irritation and most importantly, babies and essential oils, and where to apply essential oils.
The book details the benefits and uses of 20 carrier oils consisting of vegetable, nut, plant and seed oils such as almond, aloe vera, apricot kernel, arnica, evening primrose, grapeseed and jojoba to mention but a few. It teaches how to blend various carrier oils for different conditions. It uniquely teaches how to calculate essential oil drops in carrier oil for minimum and maximum doses. It also teaches maximum exposure of essential oils for adult males and females. It offers many formulation tables making referencing easy and effortless.
Many people need a good basic kit of essential oils. This book teaches how to tailor-make your own basic kit for you, and your family’s imbalances, which saves spending money on unnecessary oils. It makes the reader aware of toxic oils, and the difference between essential oils vs. herbs.
It details 51 essential oils listing their benefits for every system in the body. These essential oils, their properties and effects are then summarized for quick and easy referencing. In this book Cecilia uniquely teaches the grouping of essential oil in a manner never done before. The reader is also made aware of hazardous oils and oils that should be used with caution together with certain conditions, and essential oils that should be used with caution for those conditions.
A new but welcomed addition to the book is essential oils for emergency preparedness. There are many different ways in which essential oils can be used and the section on Treatment Variations is well demonstrated with numerous variations and many more formulations. It teaches how to make air and surfacesprays, use oils in a bath for different conditions, do hot and cold compresses, foot baths, gargle combinations, steam bowls and spot treatments, etc.
There is a large section on essential oils for general conditions from A-Z with essential oil and treatment recommendations for these conditions.
The psychological effects of essential oils is also covered focusing on essential oils vs. psychological conditions, as well as psychological conditions vs. essential oils.
In a fascinating way, essential oils are traced through the circulatory system covering coronary, cerebral, circulation, systemic, pulmonary and hepatic portal circulation with conditions that affect all of these systems together with essential oils recommended for relief of these imbalances.
The chapter on chemical constituents of essential oils also covers botany, purity and adulteration, common adulterations of essential oils and olfaction together with a chart on essential oil antiproperties.
A very fun and creative section in this book is Fragrance and Beauty which teaches, as well as give formulations for perfumes, bath oils, bath salts, hand creams, creams for general conditions, facial cream and exfoliation cream. Another section covers beauty care, hair care and advice especially for men.
For individuals who are serious about becoming a practitioner or aromatherapist, the section in the book covering Application of Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Aromatherapy teaches massage, preparing for a massage and important points to remember, contraindications to massage, code of ethics and a treatment plan, together with treatment and consultation durationand elimination symptoms. It has a list of clinic requirements, and meticulous suggestions for a health history form. A massage is demonstrated in detail with graphics as well as photographs.
The section on Pregnancy covers essential oils suitable for pregnancy, essential oils to be used with caution during pregnancy as well as essential oils to be avoided in pregnancy. General guidelines for the use of oils during pregnancy together with the application of essential oils and carrier oils are given. The Massage Formulation Table for Pregnancy and Lactationmakes it easy to reference the oils. There is even a Bath Formulation Table for Pregnancy and Lactation. A massage procedure for pregnancy and labor is detailed together with postnatal care. General conditions of pregnancy and post-pregnancy offers valuable and thorough advice.
Babies and Aromatherapy stipulate important points for a successful massage together with essential oils suitable for babies, as well as essential oils unsuitable for babies. Graphic and descriptive detail of a baby massage offers the opportunity to learn how to relax and sooth a baby. General conditions for babies and toddlers cover a list of common imbalances accompanied by essential oil and treatment suggestions.
The chapter on Children and Aromatherapy, like the sections preceding it, is also filled with valuable advice on which essential oils are suitable for children, which should be used with caution and which essential oils should be avoided with children who have not yet reached puberty. Essential oil drops for young children and adolescents are given in weight and age which make recommended drops easy to understand and apply. There are important points to rememberwhich is well explained and the list of general conditions for children, together with recommended oils and treatment makes this book unique.
Finally, a small section on animals and insects cover the essential oils recommended as flea, lice, tick, ants and rodent repellents. Formulation are given using insect and pet repellent essential oils to make insect repellent sprays for skin, clothing and surfaces.
The book ends with an easy to comprehend glossary of terms, and a detailed index which makes referencing information easy to find.
Very few books contain as much valuable, informative and educational material as Aromatherapy for Natural Health and Beauty. People worldwide have complemented the author on how detailed, yet easy to comprehend her book is. This in turn makes practical application simple and effective. This book lends the opportunity to individuals to become well trained aromatherapists
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