Aromatherapy for Women: A Practical Guide to Essential Oils for Health and Beauty

Extracted from flowers and herbs, aromatic essential oils have been used for centuries to heal and beautify, offering a gentle yet effective alternative in the treatment of illness, stress, and imbalance. Maggie Tisserand brings a wealth of practical experience to this book, focusing on women and their particular health and beauty concerns. She shows how the unique properties of specific essences can be used to maintain healthy hair and skin, ease minor complaints, and assist in treating more serious health problems.

The author shares her techniques for enhancing general well-being and sensual satisfaction with massage. She also gives advice on how to use aromatherapy during pregnancy and childbirth, and includes a chapter on remedies for children's illnesses. Tisserand's knowledge of aromatherapy is both accessible and comprehensive, providing the reader with excellent guidance to the healing benefits of aromatic essences.

Revised and expanded edition of the aromatherapy bestseller.

Includes recipes for preparing your own oils, baths, perfumes, masks, compresses, and other remedies.

A resource section directs you to reputable suppliers.

Way back in 1983 I wrote what was to be my first book of several on the subject of aromatherapy.As I was writing from personal experience of utilising essential oils for skin and health care, using oils throughout pregnancy, childbirth and to help raise my three children, I wrote the first half in two weeks. The remainder of the book took a few months (followed by an eon of editing!) and in 1985 the original UK published version was on sale.  Aromatherapy for Women was the third aromatherapy book ever to have been written in the English language. People refer to me as 'an aromatherapist' but I have never treated 'clients' and have no official accreditation.  I wrote my first book straight from the heart and it is completely anecdotal. I love aromatherapy and essential oils.