Authentic Aromatherapy ─ Essential Oils and Blends for Health, Beauty, and Home

Essentialoils are becoming increasingly popular, but how do you identify quality oilsfrom the myriad of inferior ones to choose from? And what can you actually dowith these little vials of oils? In fact, there are countless things you canuse them for—things that will improve your life and home—and it’s so easy!

SharonFalsetto features forty essential oils and recommends which ones you can use toimprove specific ailments, ways they can benefit women, babies, and children,how to utilize them in the home and seasonally, and how to use them when youare traveling. She also provides information on bases for different essentialoil uses and lists cautions and tips. This complete handbook is a great toolfor anyone just starting to use essential oils as a holistic approach or thosewho have been using them for a long time, and includes chapters on:

·The history of scents

·Essential oils vs. fragrance oils

·Organic and non-organic essential oils

·Hydrosols, resins, absolutes, and carrier oils

·Extraction of essential oils and homedistillation

·Basic chemistry of essential oils

·Species and chemotypes

·Endangered essential oils

·And much more

You’ll learnhow to use common essential oils like grapefruit, eucalyptus, cedarwood,lavender, rosemary, tea tree, and thyme, but also more rare ones like benzoin,helichrysum, petigrain, vetiver, and yarrow. Essential oils can improve yourlife and well-being if you know how to use them correctly—Authentic Aromatherapy will show you how.