annieb123's Review of Aromatherapy (A Little Book of Self Care)

by Louise Robinson

Make aromatherapy an indispensable part of your everyday self-care routine with this comprehensive holistic healing guide.

If you're in search of a more natural approach to health and wellbeing, expert Louise Robinson has created over 40 bespoke remedies, blends, and rituals to transform your body and mind - the perfect antidote to the stresses of everyday life.

Science now supports what practitioners have long known: that oils derived from plants have powerful therapeutic properties, working holistically on mind, body, and spirit. From massage oils to boost immunity, to room diffusers to help you sleep - this book is your complete guide to essential oils and their healing properties.

Harness the power of essential oils and discover:

- What aromatherapy is and the benefits of the practice
- How essential oils work
- What ingredients and equipment you will need to get started
- How to use essential oils safely with guidance to both air and skin applications
- Easy-to-follow illustrated guides for practical home remedies and wellbeing treatments
- Relaxing, restoring, and revitalising alternative therapies including detox routines, energising and mood-lifting oil blends, immunity-boosting, and relaxation massages

This aromatherapy book takes you on an empowering journey of self-care. It begins by unpacking what aromatherapy and essential oils are, how to use them correctly and how to safely get the most out of them. This reference book is divided into wellbeing treatments designed to uplift the mind, body, and spirit. Also included are healing treatments designed to address, relieve, and help cure a range of common conditions.

Your Essential Toolkit For Wellness in The Modern World

Aromatherapy is about more than just beautiful smelling aromas that come from essential oils. This carefully curated collection of blends, remedies, and practices shows you how to practice aromatherapy at home. Extract and blend your own aromatic essential oils to care for and heal yourself, follow step-by-step massage routines, and combine aromatherapy with yoga, meditation, and breathwork to deliver maximum benefit to you.

Complete the Series:

Once you've completed Aromatherapy (Little Book of Self-Care), look out for more books in this series from DK Books. Discover indispensable everyday self-care routines in the other titles from the self-care series including Ayurveda, Breathwork, Sleep and more.

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Aromatherapy is a new theory and practice guide for aromatherapy by Louise Robinson. Due out 12th Jan 2021 from Penguin Random House on their DK imprint, it's 144 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.

This is a well written, accessible, and fairly systematic treatment of the subject matter. Graphically, it's an appealing book with lots of line drawings, and a clean art style and layout. The text is easy to understand. The introductory sections cover getting started, what aromatherapy is, tools and supplies, making your own blends, some safety and handling tips, and general information. The following chapters include instructions for using essential oils safely in massage, compresses, creams lotions & gels, balms, etc. The third section contains specific blends for various applications: well being and healing blends. The author has included a resource links list (heavily slanted to readers in North America), an index, and an oils list with indications and contraindications for specific uses.

Graphically the whole book has a very relaxing feel and lots of line art illustrations and pastel colorways which appealed to me.

Four stars. Illuminating, useful and worthwhile.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Aromatherapy (A Little Book of Self Care)

by Louise Robinson

Reviewed by annieb123 on Oct 17, 2020

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