The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, Revised and Expanded: Over 800 Natural, Nontoxic, and Fragrant Recipes to Create Health, Beauty, and Safe Home and Work Environments Paperback – November 15, 2016

I just got into using Essential oils and decided I needed to find a good book that had the information I needed to know so I wouldn't have to keep looking it up on my phone all the time .. now I had found several books , but this one seemed like the best choice after reading reviews and looking up information on Valerie ann worwood. So far I'm very happy with it, because it's full of information that I haven't seen in other books. Just so you know this book doesn't have the fancy pictures or the super glossy pages that most people like when it comes to books like this, but honestly I don't mind, because the lack of pictures means she was able to put more important and interesting information in the book. As you can see in my photos they have a section on cooking with essential oils and a few other pages on ingestible recipes for heath reasons. ..I saw in a review somone didn't like that because it could be dangerous and yes it can be if you aren't using food grade essential oils! You can find Food Grade essential oils on Amazon and Im sure at heath food stores. I wouldn't recommend using Essential oils you buy for defusing or bath products etc etc , because some of those arnt top quality , they have something added to them , or they are fake essential oils ( I have already ran across some of those.😑 ) so if it says do not ingest than I wouldn't, but that's up to you and if you want to risk it ! Overall I find this book to be a great reference book and I would recommend it !

This will explain why/what each EO is used for, and will give you TONS of possible recipe combinations that will prove useful in some way; it even provides the "essential" EOs you should buy/have on hand for most common situations.Only limitation could be that it is too much information as once; if you treat it as the reference it is though, you'll find more than enough valuable info to justify the purchase price.

This book is incredibly informative, and has gotten me ridiculously into essential oils!! The only thing I didn't like right away was that some of the different sections of the book and the quick reference guide didn't include all of the relevant oils and their applicable treatments... BUT this resulted in me going through the rest of the book and taking a ton of notes, and this book is so big that in doing this, I actually discovered more treatments for different ailments that I may not have found if I'd just looked at the reference guide. You can see in my photos that I've marked a LOT of pages and taken notes on the things that are most applicable to me personally, but there's so much information in this book, that there's guaranteed to be something in here for everyone!! It also provides precautions for certain oils, which I appreciate.

Full of great information. Highly recommend

I have a number of essential oil books and this one is a great addition. It's very comprehensive yet not overwhelming or complicated. I bought this book for a friend who expressed an interest in essential oils and this is great book not only to start with but really all that is needed. Good recipes for a variety of needs.

This book does a relatively good job of giving a good overview of everything essential oils/aromatherapy. I will say though that it does not cover everything in detail, but she does have some other books that may delve more into specific areas. It has an index of all the essential oils she talks about (which from what I can tell is essentially every oil you would be able to find, minus maybe a few more obscure oils). I do want to say though that she suggests essential oil blends for animals, which is not necessarily safe. Many animal species have extreme sensitivities to essential oils, so you should never use them directly on your animal, and should use aromatherapy as little as possible around them. More information can be found on the ASPCA website. Other than that concern, I have had very good success with the blends that are in the book, and find that index mentioned earlier to be easy to determine what oils to use in my own blends.

Took me a bit to get into. Now that I have I am learning very useful things. I even purchased cute bookmarks to mark areas I need to look back and on.

I like the actual recipes and there are an absolute ton of them! I also like that it have options of other oils you could use in case you didn't have a particular one. I also really liked that it didn't force you to use the specialty mixed oils like from certain brands that are over $50 an ounce when you can get good quality oils for $10 or so per 3 to 4 oz!