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The Chemistry of Essential Oils
THE CHEMISTRY OF ESSENTIAL OILS Revised edition 2008 By David Williams ISBN 978-1870228-31-2 Reviewed by Martin Watt - Dec 2008 This book is something I would highly recommend to anyone wanting to understand the chemistry and other issues of the use of essential oils. This edition includes many GLC charts on each different essential oil...
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The Chemistry of Essential Oils Made Simple
The Chemistry of Essential Oils Made Simple By David Stewart Reviewed by Robert Tisserand Review first published on August 24th 2012: http://roberttisserand.com/2012/08/book-review-the-chemistry-of-essential-oils-made-simple/ At almost 850 pages, there's plenty of reading here. Unfortunately, this book is replete with errors. There are inn...
Book reviews/ 17.02.24
Clinical Aromatherapy in Nursing
Clinical Aromatherapy in Nursing by Jane Buckle (Arnold 1997). Reviewed by Maria Lis-Balchin B.Sc. (Hons), PhD. This book should not be recommended for any University courses in complementary or alternative therapies as I do not feel it meets the academic standards expected of a course core book or recommended reading book at any level. Due...
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Complete Guide to Aromatherapy
The Complete Guide to Aromatherapy 1995 edition by Salvatore Battaglia. Reviewed by Martin Watt. I thought parts of this book looked impressive until I started on the essential oil monographs. In those he includes the usual nonsense from earlier aromatherapy authors. They took the traditional uses of herbs and assumed the external applicati...
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Medical Aromatherapy
Medical Aromatherapy by Kurt Schnaubelt. 1999 edition Reviewed by Martin Watt. I had high hopes for this book as it was only published in 1999 years after other aromatherapy books. It therefore had a chance to correct errors made by previous authors. Sadly I was disappointed as it contains the same old recopied errors on the therapeutic us...
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The Encyclopaedia of Essential Oils
THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ESSENTIAL OILS (original version) by JULIA LAWLESS. Reviewed by Martin Watt Cert. Phyt. Medical Herbalist. Page 10. "Rosemary and Marjoram should be avoided in pregnancy" No evidence is provided as to why, and no mention is made that there are at least 3 major varieties of marjoram oil. There are also dozens of s...
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Aromatherapy For All The Family
AROMATHERAPY FOR ALL THE FAMILY 1993 edition. ISBN 0-946-982-06-6 by J. Kusmirek Reviewed by Martin Watt. SUMMARY Any author makes mistakes, however, the errors made in this work are numerous and profound. This could only be due to his lack of knowledge of the issues surrounding the use of essential oils. He also lacked the ability to so...
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Modern Essentials: A Contemporary Guide to the Therapeutic Use of Essential Oils
'Modern Essentials: A Contemporary Guide to the Therapeutic Use of Essential Oils' Author unknown but claimed to be "AromaTools". Published by http://www.aromatools.com/Default.asp of Utah, USA. A review by Martin Watt Introduction. This book looks like a mechanism to market DoTerra essential oils to their cult followers. They believe every...
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A practical Guide to Aromatherapy
A practical Guide to Aromatherapy by Lorrie Hargis ISBN 1-58054-070-8 A review by Martin Watt This book contains several formulas for the internal use of essential oils at extremely hazardous levels. Calculating potential toxicity or irritation levels is difficult because of the use of some kind of emulsifying agent which I have no infor...
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Aroma & Clay Therapy
AROMA- & CLAY THERAPY by R.Ypma Reviewed by Martin Watt. I have not investigated the suggestions made for treating animals or many of the claims for the clay treatments. While being perfectly happy that clay used externally has some useful properties, it should NOT be recommended for INTERNAL use by aromatherapists who do not receive a soun...