Essential Oils As In The A To Z Of

The book, The A To Z Of Essential Oils by E. Joy Bowles is a great beginner's book on aromatherapy.

Do you love to walk into an office and smell a wonderful aromatherapy candle burning? Do you enjoy scented lotions? Those scents are created with essential oils.

Maybe you briefly touched on the topic during massage school. In our class, we spoke of them very briefly and that was that. No demonstrations, nothing. There was a blurb about them in our textbook. I read about them in a massage magazine and then got some books about them.

This book is a great place to start learning about the art of aromatherapy and how you can combine scents with massage therapy.

The publisher has filled with the pages with beautiful full-color photos of the plants, flowers, fruits, and spices that provide us with these natural, plant-based oils. It also lists both the common names and the latin names of each of the oils it talks about.

There is information about each scent of the 58 different oils reviewed in this book. It tells how they are harvested, what oils work best for different conditions and bodyparts, and why they work.

I learned a lot from this book for use in my massage therapy practice. I think it is a must-have if you want to combine aromatherapy practice with your massage therapy practice and do the right thing for each of your clients.

This book will make a wonderful gift for new massage therapists and beginning aromatherapists. The photography is up close and detailed so you can recognize the plants when you see them. This alone is reason to buy this book. The charts are great as well.

The 58 oils reviewed in the book are discussed in great detail. Each one gets two pages, not just a quick mention like in some books I have read.

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