Aromatherapy: A Lifetime Guide to Healing with Essential Oils

I have an aromatherapy business and am always looking for additional material to read. You will find educational information as well as easy to prepare recipes using readily available ingredients. This book is a great resource when looking up properties of certain ingredients such as essential oils. I highly recommend this book it was well worth the money.

This is the BEST Aromatherapy book I have ever read!!! This is a must read for everyone interested in Aromatherapy.

The greatest roadblock in choosing alternative health approaches is the unknown. Not knowing the background and training of the author, healer or teacher you are considering can be extremely stressful. Choosing the wrong one can be disastorous. Valerie's background and training in western medicine gives her a credibility few others posses. Valerie's sage advice on a balanced approach to healthcare, i.e.: a team consisting of both western and alternative practitioners, makes sense. Kind of a "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" approach. Simple and believable claims make this book easy to read and follow. I recommend it to all who are considering alternative approaches to western medicine.

A reference book that should be in every home.

I am a certified massage therapist interested in integrating aromatherapy into my practice. I found this text to be straight-forward with a good grounding in history, cautions about essential oils, references (very important!) and listings of additional sources to pursue. I always have trouble finding factual, practical information on such "soft arts" as massage and aromatherapy which do not include "new age" aspects that a practitioner of health arts usually is not interested in, at least to obtain a starting basic knowledge. I would recommend Cooksley's aromatherapy to anyone interested in the basics of aromatherapy and its many applications. Cooksley's explanations are clear, her recipes are good, she has a variety of ways to use essential oils. Most of all, her background in nursing and health arts is reassuring to me that her information comes from a grounding in SAFE essential oil use.