Best Essential Oils Book for Beginners

Now you can safely create natural therapeutic blends that will impact your mood and health and best of all, promote well-being. Therapeutic Blending With Essential Oil unlocks the healing power of essential oils and guides you through the intricate matrix of aromatherapy, with a compilation of over 150 common ailments.

Each section of this beautifully illustrated book covers a different area of aromatherapy including the history of essential oils as medicine, methods of extraction and distillation, safety and storage tips, blending techniques, aromatic botany, and a comprehensive guide to understanding the chemistry of essential oils and their classification by chemical groups. It also instructs you how to judge an essential oil's quality. Quick reference blending charts offers the reader comprehensive knowledge for convenient application tips and benefits for the entire family. Practical uses for the elderly, women during pregnancy, and children are included in this holistic resource.

Discover how to properly formulate a blend for any physical or emotional symptom with four blending techniques including blending by notes, botany, chemistry, or effect. The extensive therapeutic properties matrix helps you determine the right combination of oils to use. With easy to follow customizable recipes, you can make your own personalized massage oils, hand and body lotions, bath gels, compresses, salve ointments, smelling salts, nasal inhalers and more. 

This exhaustive guide takes all the guesswork out of blending essential oils from how many drops to include in a blend, to working with and measuring thick oils, to how often to apply it for acute or chronic conditions. It also shows you how to create a single blend for multiple conditions. Even if you run out of oil for a favorite recipe, this essential oil book shows you how to substitute it with another oil.

Other Features included:

• Exhaustive Directory of 122 Essential Oils

• Convenient Directory of 40 Carrier Oils and Dilution Guides

• Over 20 Methods of Use with Simple Everyday Usage Chart

• Systematic Approach for Common Ailments for the Muscular and Skeletal System, the Immune System, the Circulatory System, the Reproductive System, the Respiratory System, the Nervous System and for Skin, Hair and Mouth Care

• Glossary of Essential Oil Terms

Product details

Publisher: ‎ Rebecca at the Well Foundation (November 17, 2013)

Language: ‎ English

Paperback: ‎ 368 pages

ISBN-10: ‎ 0988958376

ISBN-13: ‎ ‎ 978-0988958371

Item Weight: ‎ 1.8 pounds

Dimensions: ‎ 6 x 0.76 x 9 inches

"In this book, Rebecca shares a wide range of information related to blending essential oils for healing, beginning with the parts of plants from which the essential oils are extracted, to different methods of extraction, how to determine the quality of essential oils, how to store them, the methods of use, and dilution rates.

She shares profiles of 40 carrier oils and 122 essential oils, noting both their healing properties and whether they belong to top, middle or bottom note. In the blending section of the book, she also has blending charts according where the oils are divided according to their healing properties and the notes.

She discusses four techniques for blending: blending by notes, blending by botany, blending by chemistry and blending by effect. Suggested ratio of blending is 3:2:1 for top : middle : bottom note, or 3 - 15 drops of top note, 2 - 10 drops of middle note, 1 - 5 drops of bottom note for 30 ml of carrier oil.

You'll find here suggestions for blending oils to improve your moods giving a boost both to your mental and emotional state (e.g. oil blends to help you cope with anxiety or to boost your confidence), as well as those can help with physical challenges (acne, itching, aches and pains). You'll find information how to blend oils for children (to help the child to sleep peacefully, or to help with upset tummy), as well as for elderly (e.g. joint pain, circulatory problems).

While typical aromatherapy books share recipes with specific herbs that don't leave you much leeway to maneuver, this books gives you a lot of creative space to choose the oils that you already may have, or enjoy and all kinds of ways that you can blend them to meet your specific needs. It's perfect."

Laura De Giorgio - AMAZON REVIEW

"I love this book. I read about it on one of my essential oils facebook groups. The lady was absolutely right. It is chocked full of information. It is written very clear and concise. There does not seem to be a lot of "fluff' added in the pages. It promotes essential oil safety and gives lot s of tables for reference to dilution rates etc. It has a brief summary of a lot of everyday common oils. I did not think initially that I would find much useful information since I have so many books written by many experts on essential oil. However, I have to say I was wrong. I found lots of useful information and it is all easy to find and refer to. I highly recommend adding this to your library. It is not a cheap book, but then it is not an overly expensive book. It depends on your perspective and what knowledge is worth to you."

Coffeegirl - AMAZON REVIEW

"Wish I'd been introduced to Ms Totilo long ago. This feels like an actual textbook as opposed to a reference guide or a blog writers' recipe book. And, it's not 'dummed-down' like Top Selling books written by celebrity TV doctors that speak more about their home-style/ life-style. Very impressive! Hopefully, her companion book is this informative."

Amazon Customer - AMAZON REVIEW