Be happy, healthy, and beautiful! Victoria Edwards offers the most comprehensive aromatherapy guide available, with hundreds of recipes for beauty, health, and physical and emotional well-being. Edwards guides you through making perfumes, bath and massage oils, aphrodisiacs, and health care supplements. Learn about the properties of essential and carrier oils, and master classic recipes for healing and relaxation. You'll soon be creating customized blends for you and your friends that promote tranquility and strength. Internationally known aromatherapy teacher and consultant Victoria Edwards owns Leydet Aromatics, a mail-order business specializing in essential oils. She is also director of the Aromatherapy Institute and Research Center and the author of The Aromatherapy Companion and 25 Aromatherapy Blends for De-Stressing. She is a member of the National Institute of Holistic Aromatherapists and lives in northern California. Discover the Healing Benefits of Aromatherapy
In The Aromatherapy Companion, you'll find hundreds of soothing and healing recipes for beauty, health, and emotional well-being through every stage of life. Noted aromatherapist Victoria Edwards offers a comprehensive guide to using some of the more unusual essential oils and carrier oils and shares her secret blends for the bath, massage, perfumery, health care, and aphrodisiacs. She also includes special recipes inspired by mythology, astrology, and Ayurvedic medicine.
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Aromatherapy and Essential Oils
Chapter 2: An Overview of Essential Oils and Their Properties
Chapter 3: Aromachemistry
Chapter 4: Safety and Toxicity Guidelines
Chapter 5: Carrier Oils -- The Vehicles of Delivery
Chapter 6: Basic Aromatherapy Applications
Chapter 7: Creating Your Own Blends
Chapter 8: Natural Perfumery
Chapter 9: Aphrodisiacs
Chapter 10: Aromatherapy and Ayurveda
Chapter 11: Mythology and Aromatherapy
Chapter 12: Aromatherapy for Children and Teenagers
Chapter 13: Aromatherapy for Pregnancy and Menopause
Chapter 14: Men and Aromatherapy
Chapter 15: Aromatherapy for Successful Aging
Glossary
Recommended Reading
Resources
Index
"The most comprehensive aromatherapy guide available. Victoria Edwards includes profiles of essential oils and gives instructions for using them in a wide range of recipes for beauty, health, and emotional well-being." – Aromatherapy Thymes
