Essential Oils: All-natural remedies and recipes for your mind, body and home

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An instructional reference guide to essential oils and aromatherapy from the experts at Neal’s Yard Remedies, a trusted source for natural, nontoxic health and beauty products.

Learn how to harness the healing powers of essential oils for treating maladies and improving mental and physical well-being so you feel great in every way. Use homeopathic alternatives to treat everyday health and wellness concerns, including:

   • Acne
   • PMS
   • Insomnia
   • Indigestion
   • Soothing inflammation
   • Rebalancing energy
   • Enhancing focus
   • Releasing stress

Whether you live an all-natural lifestyle or you are just beginning to use alternative methods to eliminate synthetic chemicals from your everyday products, Essential Oils is packed with authoritative information to answer your questions.

This visual guide features comprehensive profiles of 88 essential oils, stunning full-color photographs, and helpful guidance for using, blending, and storing. Understand what essential oils are, where they come from, and how they benefit the body. Choose from 33 focused recipes to rejuvenate your total person. Learn classic remedies for the most common emotional and physical conditions.

An illustrated A-to-Z reference section helps identify the most useful oils, plus shares tips on application methods and massage techniques. Up-to-date safety recommendations help you learn how to use them for maximum benefit.

Essential Oils can help you improve your overall well-being and start you on the path to a more natural you.

From the Publisher

Essential Oils Today

The essential oil trade emerged about 200 years ago for use in the perfumery and food industries. In recent years, an increased emphasis on holistic healing has led to a resurgence of interest in the traditional use of essential oils for health, well-being, and beauty.

Uplifting Candle

Candles can be made from different types of wax, such as paraffin wax, soy wax, or beeswax, the most traditional. Not all oils work well in a candle: experiment using cheaper oils. Some highly colored oils will change the color of paler waxes.

Ointments, Balms, and Creams

Using oils in ointments, balms, and cream bases is an effective way to promote skin healing and to nourish skin. Ointments tend to be oil based, while balms and creams contain extra ingredients for a creamier texture. Treat localized areas, applying a balm or ointment where needed, to encourage healing or to combat skin dryness.

Exfoliating Body Scrub

Using a body scrub is a great way to boost the circulation and remove dead skin cells, leaving the skin soft, smooth, and invigorated. Almond oil is richly nourishing and great for moisturizing dry skin. Combined with skin-softening oats and calming Roman Chamomile and lavender essential oils, this soothing scrub conditions and softens skin, giving a silky feel.

Caraway

This warming essential oil works on both mind and body, relieving mental strain and emotional fatigue. It also supports the digestive and urinary systems, helps clear the respiratory system, and can be used to treat stubborn skin and scalp conditions.

Baths

Adding essential oils to water is a hugely pleasurable and popular way to use them. The warmth of the water relaxes and soothes muscles, encouraging relaxation, and at the same time opens pores to help the essential oils penetrate the skin and enter the body more rapidly.

Mimosa

Warming and relaxing, mimosa is a popular addition to perfumes. In skincare products, its nourishing and soothing properties provide a softening balm for sensitive skin, and its calming action helps to ease tension and lift spirits.

Benzoin

Benzoin, also known as gum benzoin, is a traditional ingredient in incense. Today, the oil is added to skin creams for its antiseptic, healing, and calming properties. In scents, it is a popular fixative, slowing the evaporation of the perfume to help it last longer.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ DK; 1st edition (October 11, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1465454373
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1465454379
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.63 x 0.78 x 9.13 inches