A clear-cut guide to understanding the curative power of plant essences, A Beginner's Guide to Essential Oils teaches you how to use essential oils safely and concoct your own therapeutic blends.

Essential oils give us the ability to take our health into our own hands, supplying natural, easy ways to address a wide range of issues from the mental to the physical. There's a lot of information to explore, and those unfamiliar with essential oils may feel overwhelmed. A Beginner's Guide to Essential Oils is the perfect introduction to the curative properties of essential oils, from lavender and lemongrass to sweet orange and sandalwood. The 70 most helpful oils are divided into categories based on their scent, ranging from herbaceous to citrus, floral to spicy. And the profiles in A Beginner's Guide to Essential Oils provide the benefits, origin, effective application methods, and safety precautions of each oil.

A Beginner's Guide to Essential Oils encourages readers to incorporate their favorite oils into daily life, learning to make their own blends and discovering natural solutions to boost skin and hair health, alleviate anxiety and depression, support digestion, and treat inflammation. Succinct, useful, and easy-to-digest, A Beginner's Guide to Essential Oils can help anyone tap into the natural world and cultivate an intuition for healing.