A Beginner's Guide to Essential Oils: Recipes and Practices for a Natural Lifestyle and Holistic Health (Essential Oils Reference Guide, Aromatherapy Book, Homeopathy)

I purchased this looking for a few ideas and like lots of books, planned on saving the good ideas and passing the book on. NOPE! THIS BOOK IS A KEEPER! I have so many notes made inside this book that give me information about oils and other information about use. Love the book. Actually purchased a second copy to give as a gift.

Outstanding!!!! As a new person to essential oils, I find this book very informative, easy to follow, plus many "real time" ideas that will make for a stress free lifestyle. Very good ideas and inputs. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

it is more storyline based and I just wanted a guide to how to use ratios of essential oils for my body line. Still good bit not what I thought.

This is a good book for when you are just starting out with essential oils. Just love it.

I was not impressed with this book and a major reason for that is the lack of an index. As you go through the book, you see recipes for various essential oil purposes, but when you go to find a recipe later, you have trouble finding it because the book lacks an index. This is a major omission on the part of the author. There is much better information on essential oils found in the blogs and learning tabs of major essential oil companies. A more comprehensive book for those wanting to learn more about essential oils found on Amazon is The Healing Power of Essential Oils.

Hayley Hobson’s book Essential Oils is a wonderful guide for me, and other beginner users of oils. She explains how to live a healthy, peaceful lifestyle, finding techniques to navigate our complicated world. Oils are an essential part of her journey. They are becoming mine too. She is an inspiration.

Hayley Hobson's book is fantastic! Easy to read and follow. I enjoyed Haley's honesty and no-nonsense approach to using Essential Oils.

This book sounded interesting, but there was no information listed as to the author’s qualifications, so I searched for her online and came across her website. Nowhere does she say she’s a certified aromatherapist. It appears her only ”qualification” to teach about essential oils is that she sells for one of the MLM companies and representatives of the MLM companies have inadequate training and frequently give irresponsible and dangerous advice — I just read an article by one MLM representative who advocated using many essential oils neat and the ones she did recommend diluting she said to do it at a 50-50 ratio, not the recommended 1-10%, depending on age and useage, and using 40-60 drops of EO per 10 ml roller bottle (4-6 drops is what is recommended for regular useage). I have been using essential oils for the last 20 years and own a number of essential oil books and the one thing they have in common is that they are all written by certified aromatherapists. I would recommend people looking for a good guide to essential oil useage choose a book written by a qualified aromatherapist and not a salesperson for a MLM company. As a beginning rule of thumb, anyone who tries to convince you that one brand of essential oils is better than all other brands out there is biased and spreading false information. There are a number of brands that sell ethically sourced, high quality essential oils and the ones I trust all provide batch specific GC/MS analysis. Given the listed qualifications that I could find for this author, I’m baffled as to why a publisher would publish a book she wrote on essential oils — I would think they would be worried about liability.

Easy read

Great book without too much science. Just great tips on how your health and well being can improve with essential oils.

A really great little book - packed with hints & tips & just about everything you need to know to get started. An awesome read too for those who are already a little way along their Essential Oil journey.

Der Inhalt des Buches ist extrem dünn. Die Autorin schreibt über die ersten 70 Seiten eher eine Erlebniserzählung. Die Öle kommen dabei kaum zum Zuge und neben "Erlebniserzählung" mischen sich allgemeine Hinweise oder eher Meinungen zur Praktiken wie Yoga, Meditation und Emotionsmanagement, was mich - ganz einfach ausgedrückt - gar nicht interessiert und keine Kaufintention war. Es scheint fast so, als wäre dies eine Art Selbststherapie der Autorin Schließlich folgen in der 2. Buchhälfte kurze Abrisse von ätherischen Ölen und Rezepten und empfohlenen Mischungen und Anwendungsgebieten. Für mich, der etwas zu den Ölen und Anwendungsprinzipien erfahren wollte, nicht sehr nützlich. Trotzdem ein Stern für die zweite Buchhälfte, die zumindest einen kurzen Überblick über diverse Öle gibt. Eine besondere Qualifikation der Autorin im Bereich der Aromatherapie oder sonstiger angelehnter Fachrichtung ist - abgesehen von Selbsterfahrung - nicht vorhanden oder zumindest nicht ersichtlich.

Great book, packed with info and ideas for mixes and even some very clever ideas such as putting drops in the washing machine etc.