Books like Teach Yourself Aromatherapy (Teach Yourself Books (Lincolnwood, Ill.).) by Denise Whichello Brown

While there are numerous aromatherapy handbooks detailing how to use every essential oil known to humankind, Seasons of Aromatherapy breaks from the pack, offering friendly advice instead of encyclopedic information. The authors, Judith Fitzsimmons, a certified aromatherapist, and Paula Bousquet, a herb wholesaler, make incorporating aromatherapy into daily life easy, fun, and even inexpensive. Each chapter (there are 12, one for every month) focuses on one essential oil and gives dozens of original ideas to help readers deal with seasonal challenges and increase daily enjoyment of life. The beautifully illustrated guide contains hundreds of restorative recipes and sensory suggestions to manage everything from blemishes and the blues to sunburn, bad breath, and headaches. There's a chamomile/geranium recipe for stress relief, a bedtime-room spray for the kids, and even a cedar/rosemary remedy for Fido.

Explores lavender (Lavandula) from its aromatic qualities to its therapeutic applications in herbal medicine, aromatherapy, and consumer health, detailing how beauty culture and new‑age practices harness its healing power.

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This is one in a series of introductions to the most popular and effective alternative health practices available today. Each book teaches readers the basics and shows how to benefit from a range of complementary therapies, exercises and practices.