Create your own personal aromatic oils for every use - healing, pleasure and beauty. Using essential oils drawn from nature's flowers, trees, seeds and roots, you can follow these recipes for making 500 different mixes for aromatherapy.

Aromatherapy, the hottest alternative healing method in the United States, is an effective and deeply pleasurable way to maintain well-being. While its concepts can be grasped intuitively, few people realize that scientific proof does, in fact exist for many of the uses of aromatherapy.

Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit is the first book to focus on the profound spiritual and psychological benefits of essential oils. Building on the link between fragrance and mood, this beautifully illustrated and practical guide allows you to use aromatherapy to alleviate tension, anxiety, and depression.

Now anyone can take personal control of the beauty and cosmetic products they use. This complete guide explains how to create cosmetics that are customer made, natural, vibrant, and healthy -- and that avoid the preservatives and additives of commercial products.

Use this great book both as a reference and a guide to the various essential oils and their life-enhancing properties. The main attraction is a directory of 100 oils, complete with a discussion of the benefits of each for body, mind, and spirit, and suggestions on how they can be used. Gorgeous photographs showcase the plants that yield each oil, and an introductory section describes their traditional applications in different cultures around the world.

This comprehensive collection of natural remedies allows you to alleviate everyday complaints without turning to the medicine chest, or to your doctor. Each of the four branches of complementary treatments explored here has its roots in traditional therapies, which have been practiced for hundreds of years.

Marcel Lavabre's practical guide to the use of essential oils covers the history, folklore, science and art of aromatherapy, providing the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available today. It features more then seventy essentials oils classified by botanical familial, with detailed discussions of their specific actions and unique insights into their energetic and spiritual properties.

From lavender to bergamot, fragrant essential oils distilled from plants can be used as natural remedies to enhance beauty, health and well-being. In the Aromatherapy Bible, you'll learn how to prepare these oils in a variety of remedies as well as make the most out of their healing benefits through different techniques. There are recipes for skin creams and body lotions; treatments to help overcome worry, anger, stress, and depression; and blends for soothing simple ailments.

This beautiful and practical book is an ideal introduction to this unique and natural way of restoring balance to mind, body and spirit. Written by an expert in the field it offers practical information and sound advice to self-help at all levels, together with photographs and illustrations which bring the subject into sharp focus.

Best-selling author Nitya Lacroix and Sakina Bowhay combine the two age old restoratives aerometer and massage, showing lovers how they can be used to sooth the mind and the body. Lavishly presented with 105 color photographs, this romantic guide reveals how to achieve total health and pleasure by harnessing the power of natural, sensual perfumes and plants, flowers and herbs.

The healing oils that are extracted from plants have been used throughout history, and essential oils are now the most popular and widely available forms of complementary medicine. This book is an introduction to their origins and history, benefits and uses.

Jean Valnet is regarded as the father of essential oil therapy and one of its foremost authorities. In this classic manual he provides detailed evidence for the efficacy of plant medicine - nature’s most time-honored method for treatment of illness and relief of pain. More complete than any other book on the subject, The Practice of Aromatherapy covers 40 essences in detail.