The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy

Description

By Valerie Ann Worwood
Trade Paperback Book
ISBN 9781577311393
682 Pages

25th Anniversary Edition

Over 800 Natural, Nontoxic, and Fragrant Recipes to Create Health, Beauty, and Safe Home and Work Environments

A Necessary Resource for anyone interested in alternative approaches to healing and lifestyle, this new edition contains more than 800 easy-to-follow recipes for essential oil treatments. No one has provided more thorough and accurate guidance to the home practitioner or professional aromatherapist that Valerie Ann Worwood.

In her clear and positive voice, Worwood provides tools to address a huge variety of health issues, including specific advice for children, women, men, and seniors. Other sections cover self-defense against microbes and contaminants, emotional challenges, care for home and workplace, and applications for athletes, dancers, travelers, cooks, gardeners, and animal lovers. Worwoood also offers us her expertise in the use of essential oils in beauty and spa treatments. plus profiles of 125 essential oils, 37 carrier oils, and more.

Since the publication of the first edition of this book 25 years ago, the positive impact of essential oil use has become increasingly recognized, as scientific researchers throughout the world have explored essential oils and their constituents for their unique properties and uses.

About the Author

Valerie Ann Worwood is a consultant clinical aromatherapist with a doctorate in complementary medicine, and the author of eight books. She has been Chairperson and Chair of Research for the International Federation of Aromatherapists, and as well as her involvement is essential oil research, she has acted as a consultant amd expert on the clinical use of essential oils internationally.