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Essential Oil Safety: A Guide for Health Care Professionals
The safe use of essential oils is of key importance in the practice of aromatherapy. Based on up-to-date research findings, this practical, comprehensive guide gives detailed profiles of essential oils, safety guidelines for practitioners, cautions and contradictions and extensive referencing.
Essential Oil Safety is written for everyone who needs to be thoroughly familiar with the appropriate and safe use of essential oils in therapy, whether researchers, pharmacists, nurses, clinicians, aromatherapists or retailers.
Essential Oil Safety is written for everyone who needs to be thoroughly familiar with the appropriate and safe use of essential oils in therapy, whether researchers, pharmacists, nurses, clinicians, aromatherapists or retailers.
296 pages, Hardcover
First published January 15, 1995
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April 10, 2017
This is not a book you read in one sitting, but rather a manual, a handbook, that you go back to when you need some information regarding essential oils (EOs). If you find yourself getting interested in EOs, before you go and embark on shopping spree of different oils with different scents and qualities, I encourage you deeply to acquire this guide. On the one hand, EOs can add wonderful scents to your home (when used with a diffuser for example) or your DIY natural products, and some can even add some physical and aromatherapy effects (such as pain killing, calming, sleep inducing. etc.). On the other hand, when used incorrectly they can be seriously toxic and harm you, your family, friends and/or your pets. Before purchasing an EO, take a minute and consult the guide regarding safety considerations with this specific EO. Some EOs are not safe for kids or pregnant women, some are toxic to animals, some are only safe in rinse-off products and so on. Because EOs are so powerful they need to be used with wisdom.
February 6, 2013
I would give anything for a revised, updated edition of this book, last published in 1995. Were that to happen, this would be an invaluable resource for anyone, novice to professional, who uses essential oils. I know some individuals find the interpretation of data within this book to be too laissez faire and others find it to be too stringent. I find it balanced and you are welcome to draw your own conclusions from the cited research. If you liked this, you'll love "Plant Aromatics" by Martin Watt. Really, if you use essential oils, both should be on your bookshelf.
June 12, 2018
a unique resource which provides an in -depth discussion of the safety fo essential oils
February 28, 2020
A MUST READ for anyone using essential oils.
November 16, 2014
This is an impressive text on the safety of essential oils. There is so much information yet, for the most part, it's written in a way that you can understand. I did not read every single word but I did go through every page of text and read much of it.
If you are interested in using essential oils or giving advice on their use, you need to add this book to your library. I will use it frequently to reference safety information.
If you are interested in using essential oils or giving advice on their use, you need to add this book to your library. I will use it frequently to reference safety information.
January 13, 2025
The bible for aromatherapists.
June 25, 2020
If you are thinking about using essential oils and want to educate yourself I would really recommend this book. This is not a cute book you are going to read in one setting with fun recipes. It is a textbook, lots of chemistry and the information is so well written that it felt totally digestible.
May 16, 2021
Super informative and has a ton of warnings and health information written by Robert Tisserand whom is one of the leading mentors in aromatherapy. If you're interested in oils and the art of aromatherapy and want to avoid (rightly so) the crooked mlm woo this is the book to read about the practice!
August 6, 2017
Invaluable whilst studying Clinical Aromatherapy
December 10, 2018
Fantastic read for anyone interested in aromatherapy and essential oils. Tisserand is awesome.
January 1, 2026
A must have for anyone using essential oils.
April 1, 2017
An absolute must-have book for the practicing aromatherapist and aromatherapy student! Tisserand and Young have gathered safety data from numerous resources to provide this comprehensive look at the role of safety in all routes of absorption of essential oils. This would also be a helpful resource for poison control centers, emergency room physicians and nursing staff, and anyone in the medical field working with patients that are utilizing essential oils in their homecare plans.
February 1, 2014
If you use or even thinking about using Essential Oils this is a must have to know how to use them safely and what not to do with them. Now this is not a fun read or a how to use book. There is a lot if very in-depth science and chemistry . Got to go slow with this one, going back to it over and over.
April 25, 2020
Great aromatherapy book! Must read for all essential oils users!
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