Are you using essential oils yet? If you’ve been following along with us here for any length of time, you know that we absolutely love essential oils! We use them in everything from household cleaners to bath and body products. But one thing I get asked about a lot is if I can recommend a good, concise guide for beginners who are looking to learn the basics of using essential oils. Although I’ve learned a lot about essential oils from other blogs and websites, I’ve actually been looking for a good book that I can refer back to when needed – and I think I’ve found it!
I was recently contacted by a publisher who asked if I wanted to review a copy of a newly released beginner’s guide to the many uses of essential oils for health, beauty and home purposes called Essential Oils for Beginners. Let me just tell you that I’ve never agreed to a review request as quickly (and enthusiastically) as I did for this book – and for good reason. This book is awesome!
Book Review
Essential Oils for Beginners is a comprehensive guide to harnessing the natural power of essential oils. If you’re interested in getting started with essential oils and aromatherapy, this book is a great place to start! It has everything from the history of essential oils and how they work, to buying and storing essential oils, and a great chapter on how to blend oils for different therapeutic uses.
One of the most useful sections in Essential Oils for Beginners is the list of over 60 different essential oils, each with a brief description, its properties, primary uses, other oils it blends with, and safety precautions. This is exactly what I need in an essential oils guide – something I can continually refer back to when needed, but isn’t so long and detailed that I lose sight of the basic information that I’m looking for.
Of course, my favorite section in this guide is the one that helps me apply what I’ve learned by making homemade treatments for ailments, bath and body products, home and garden, and improving my overall wellbeing. Essential Oils for Beginners is jam-packed with over 85 recipes for everything from cold and flu treatments to headache remedies, mood-enhancing massage blends to skin care, air fresheners to pet products. This book’s got it all and then some!
Another thing I found pretty cool is these little fun facts that are peppered throughout the book with interesting information about essential oils history, like this one about tea tree farmers being exempted from military service during WWII:
There’s also a section in the back with a curated list of other books for recommended reading which I found very helpful. Now I know where to go next after I’m finished reading Essential Oils for Beginners. And if you’re looking for a list of authentic essential oil retailers or educational resources, those are covered in the book as well.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading through Essential Oils for Beginners and can’t wait to start trying some of these recipes! I’m also going to be delving more into the art and science behind the blending of essential oils, and I’ll be sharing what I learn right here with you! 🙂
Where to Buy the Book
See, didn’t I tell you this book is pretty awesome? 🙂 If you want to learn more about the book and read more reviews from other readers, you can do so at Amazon. You can purchase a paperback copy of the book for $9.99, or you can get the digital copy to read on your Kindle for just $0.99! Don’t have a Kindle? No problem (neither do I!), you can just download one of the free Kindle Reading Apps.
Thanks for the chance to win!!!
As a child, my grandmother began teaching me about medicinal herbs. At that age I was more interested in playing with the neighborhood children and now I wish I payed more attention. I retained only a handful of information that I used thru my life. In my teen years (after my grandmother passed away) I became interested in the natural medicines. I found essential oils and then started my search for knowledge. I have been looking for something (or multiples as I am finding) in print that I could use from the beginning of how to plant and grow, what it looks like, properies, what it is used for, how to make and use…you get the idea. I grow a lot of my own herbs and have used them, but now I am wanting to learn more about essential oils.
Love essential oils but have a limited knowledge on how to get the best use of them. This would be a great resource for me!
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I’ve been wanting to try essential oils, but wasn’t sure where to start. This book would be perfect
I recently started using oils and am now using them for everything!
The treatment recipes will be great! Always looking for ways to use oils.
Did I read that right?! Only .99 for the kindle version?!
Love essential oils, it would be great to win the book but in case i’ll buy it!
I just started using essential oils and I’m quite overwhelmed. This book would be a great help.
I use essential oils for some basic things, but i would love to learn more!
I would love to win this book to learn about all the oils and to start making wonderful home made products. 🙂
You can never know too much about essential oils. I use them every day.
I want this book!!!
Love reading about (& using!) EO’s and learning something new 🙂
I would love to have this book on essential oils. Thanks!
Would love to win this to have recipes to use!
This book would be fantastic to have since I’m an EO beginner.
I would love this book. I am just beginning to learn about essential oils & love them!
I’m just learning about essential oils and hope to win to learn more!!
My husband is studying for his master’s degree in traditional chinese medicine and I think learning about Western alternative medicine would be a good complement to that.
Looks like a GREAT book!!!
Looks like a great book to go with my collection
I would love to learn about oil. Been thinking of learning how to make soap
I have wanted to get started with essential oils for awhile not but could not decide how to begin. Money is currently tight so I can’t buy any books right now and I do better with a book in my hand.
This would be awesome!
I would love to win this book because I started working with essential oils and I love them! And I want to learn more!
I use essential oils every day and am running out. Would be great to win !!!!!!
just getting started using essential oils with my residents at the nursing home. Just want to learn more:)
This would be the most used book in my house. I am trying to learn about natural healing and would love to have this as a reference/
Would love to have this as a guide as a beginner into essential oils. Also I find that essential oils really do work and would love to know more about it. Thank-You for your give away!
I’m super jazzed about this book! I have a toddler and am careful about buying organic products and food when possible and have wanted to get into using essential oils for medicinal, well being, and cleaning products but quite frankly it’s so overwhelming…and I work full time so my brain is shot on evenings and weekends. I would LOVE to have this book to just tell me all of the things. 🙂
I really need to learn more about essential oils, my husband and I have become very interested in the use of them for both our family and our Pets.
Oh my I need this! Looks like a great book!
would love to have the book. I am a beginner but i have been trying to learn about essential oils
I use oils everyday and can supply them to you if you’d like. Find me on Facebook. Diane Marie Knickerbocker
This would be used every day! I’m trying to help all my family members with different things
I’d love to own this book!
This would make a perfect gift for my mom who is allergic to just about everything.
Another newbie here! My son is almost one & I’ve slowly been researching EO alternatives to use on him. This would be awesome to reference!
Like this book.
What a wonderful resource this would be!
I would love to win this book. I believe in essiantle oils for there healing properties. I am wanting to learn as much as I can about them and be able to bless others with the info I learn.
Would love this!!!!! Great Giveaway!!!!
would love to win this to share with our South Jersey Chapter of the American Herbalist Guild 🙂
im new at this and have been trying to learn the diffect ways to use the oils but i have to print the papers out so some get lost i would love this book !!!!
I know what you mean, Cindie!
I would love to win this as a newbie in Essential Oils!
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I would love to win this book because I’m just getting started with essential oils. It would help me learn ALOT!
Hope I win this! I’m a newbie!
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