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The Ultimate Guide to Aromatherapy

An Illustrated guide to blending essential oils and crafting remedies for body, mind, and spirit
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The Ultimate Guide to Aromatherapy, by Amy Galper and Jade Shutes, offers a modern and comprehensive approach to using essential oils for healing and wellness. This guide explores the science behind aromatherapy, including how essential oils interact with our olfactory system, brain pathways, and skin. It features over 50 detailed plant profiles and practical recipes for health and beauty remedies such as flu recovery washes, self-love perfumes, and digestion oils. Combining decades of expertise, the authors provide techniques to master blending formulations with care and skill.
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This book is ideal for beginners wanting a solid foundation in aromatherapy as well as seasoned essential oil practitioners seeking detailed plant profiles, scientific insights, and expert blending techniques.

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The Ultimate Guide to Aromatherapy is a comprehensive guide to using aromatherapy and essential oils for healing written by leading aromatherapy educators, Jade Shutes and Amy Galper.

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Written by two of the leading voices in aromatherapy, Amy Galper and Jade Shutes, The Ultimate Guide to Aromatherapy is a progressive, comprehensive approach to using aromatherapy and essential oils for healing and wellness.

Essential oils have been used across all world cultures for thousands of years. While the popularity of aromatherapy has endured, the methods and applications of the craft have evolved. The Ultimate Guide to Aromatherapy is the modern practitioner’s guide to working with aromatherapy and essential oils. Using techniques developed over decades of teaching, you will learn the science of aromatherapy and how essential oils interact with our sense of smell, brain pathways, and skin. The guide also includes over 50 plant profiles, plus recipes and blends for health and beauty.

Included are remedies for digestive health, immunity, women's health concerns, and more, such as Hand & Body Wash for Flu Recovery, Self-Love Botanical Perfume, and Tummy Massage Oil for Indigestion. Drawing on the authors' unique methodology and expertise as aromatherapists, herbalists, and healers, you will learn the art of blending formulations with great skill and discernment.

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Midwest Book Review praises the book as a beautifully illustrated introduction valuable both to novices and experienced practitioners. The American Herb Association Quarterly highlights the authors' experienced teaching methods and notes the book’s thorough coverage of essential oil effects, therapeutic uses, and pairing suggestions, along with clear, practical formulas for various aromatic products.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781631598975

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 November 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Fair Winds Press

Illustration: 50 color illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Amy Galper, BA, MA, has been a Certified Aromatherapist since 2001, as well as a passionate advocate, entrepreneur, formulator, and consultant in clean beauty and wellness. She is the co-author of Plant Powered Beauty and endorsed by beauty industry visionary Bobbi Brown, Credo Beauty's Annie Jackson, Sophie Uliano, and Tata Harper. Amy is a member of Credo Beauty's Clean Beauty Council, celebrating, advocating and educating for Clean Beauty and Wellness, along with other influencers and thought leaders in the field. She is a guest lecturer at NYU, and has presented at Nova Southeastern University (NSU). She has been featured on Fox News, Thrive, Reuters, and has been quoted as an aromatherapy expert for countless print articles, TV, podcasts, and online posts about essential oils, including Allure, Cosmopolitan, Womens' Health, Vogue.com, Extraordinary Health, Dr. OZ, Prevention, Well and Good, Better Homes and Gardens, Mind Body Green, People, Refinery29, and many more.

Jade Shutes, BA, Dipl. AT, Cert. Herbalist has been practicing and studying forms of natural healing for nearly three decades. She was one of the vanguard of professionals who helped introduce aromatherapy to the US in the early 1990s. A prolific writer, Jade has influenced a generation of aromatherapy practitioners and home users with her balanced and progressive approach to the use of essential oils. She is the former President of National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA). Her course Aromatic Medicine was a landmark course providing worldwide education on the internal use of essential oils. An aromatherapy educator for over 30 years, Jade opened one of the first aromatherapy schools in United States. Jade spends much of her time in the Appalachia mountains of Virginia growing and distilling aromatic plants on her land, offering retreats, and expanding her relationship with the land and her community.

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