Review: Re-embracing Essential Oils
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2014
Jessica Jacobs continues her series of fascinating books on naturotherapy in this book on essential oils and aromatherapy.  She emphasizes holistic and natural remedies as opposed to pills and unhealthy diet and lack of significant and informed exercise. She offers a history of the use of essential oils dating back to the ancient Egyptians, the Bible, the Arabs, Roman, Greeks and brings us up to the present resurgence of belief in the essential oils following the pharmaceutical glut. A description of who essential oils are made through distillation, expression and extraction, and then the carriers of essential oils - an area about which we all know too little - Almond Sweet Oil, Avocado Oil, Apricot Kernel Oil, Borage Oil, Calendula Oil, Cocoa Butter, Coconut Oil, Evening Primrose Oil, Grapeseed Oil, Hazelnut Oil, Jojoba Oil, Kukui Oil, among others.Some of her chapter headings include Choosing Essential Oils: Applying Essential Oils - Skin Application, Inhalation - Diffuser, Dry Evaporation, Steam, Spray, Ingestion - Lemon Oil, Grapefruit Oil, Peppermint Oil, How Do I Use Essential Oils? Bath Footbaths, Body Massage, Facial, Localized, Neat applications; Fragrancers. Then she applies the above knowledge to use in health and how to make our own essential oils and what essential oils to avoid.This is a complete overview of the use and manufacture of essential oils, a fine addition to the beginner's library. Grady Harp, July 14