The Aromatherapy Book
Applications and Inhalations

Jeanne Rose

$18.95

Aromatherapy itself refers to the therapeutic use of aromatic substances. I like to think of the volatile oils of plants as nature's homeopathic preparations. Jeanne Rose has gathered together an encyclopedia of information about the art of aromatherapy, its history, physiological pathways, therapeutic and personal use. This book is so complete (and so enjoyably written) that in my mind it stands as the focal resource for this healing art. Outstanding - best in the field!!

Gattefossé's Aromatherapy

René-Maurice Gattefossé

$25.95

If you read Jeanne Rose's The Aromatherapy Book, you will run into many references to Gattefossé's Aromatherapy. This was the book that started it all, and it's an amazing reference. Gattefossé was a chemist who inherited his family's perfumery and dove headlong into discovering the therapeutic uses of essential oils. He coined the term "aromatherapy" and published his findings in this book in 1937. Aromatherapy was promptly lost from collective consciousness and remained that way until Jean Rose found it again in 1990, gathering copious amounts of dust in a handful of large reference libraries. One thing led to another, and here it is, in English, for your discovery.