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With the Aromatherapy Fountain girls will spend hours customizing their favorite aromas while dropping in essential oils to the working fountain!  While they’re breathing in their custom scented aromas they can also create their own flavored lip gloss, mix scents for perfumes, create bath balms and bath fizzies and their own clay mask facials!

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While this video may be titled Aromatherapy, it’s as much about self-massage as it is about treating yourself with essential oils. Valerie Ann Worwood is an excellent guide to the benefits of aromatherapy–using scents to soothe and heal–for the whole family, and the sections on how to give yourself a massage are alone worth the price of this tape.

Worwood begins with the mixing of oils. The video sleeve contains a guide to which oils work for specific desired results (for instance, lemon oil is good for the body and soul, for use as a sedative, and for increasing concentration), and she mixes a few concoctions to illustrate. She then moves on to first aid, healing cuts and burns, stimulating aching feet, and helping a young child fall asleep. Next is aromatherapy in beauty regimes. The face massage is soothing, and she claims it will help release tension, increase circulation, improve texture, and revitalize the face. Scents in baths and showers follow, and then the section on stress, tension, and self-massage. The self-massage is demonstrated slowly enough that it’s easy to follow. Who needs a masseuse? With Worwood as a guide, you can calm the aching muscles of your shoulders, neck, arm, breasts, hip, back, and bottom all by your lonesome (note: there is a bit of nudity in the demonstration). She finishes the video with environmental perfuming–scenting your living space. Warning: after viewing this video you may go overboard on purchasing the oils. But at least you and your home will be pleasingly aromatized. –Jenny Brown

Product Description

A zesty, sweet citrus aroma, Sweet Orange is cheering, refreshing, and uplifting. Orange, like all citrus fruits, plays an important role in Chinese medicine. It is used for brightening dull or oily complexions. As a skin conditioner, it soothes dry, irritated, or acne-prone skin. Aromatherapists use Sweet Orange to treat muscular tension, poor circulation, obesity, water retention, bronchitis, colds, constipation, and stress-related symptoms. In vapor therapy or diluted in a bath, Orange oil can be an effective booster to the immune system for colds and flu, eliminating toxins, nervous tension and stress.

Product Description

Eliminate orders in your car with the Carma Scented Vent Sticks

Amazon.com Review

This brisk tour of essential oils (or concentrated plant essences) and explores their many applications and uses. Author Susan Worwood begins with a brief history of oils and aromatherapy, which describes how the practice of aromatherapy shifted from having New Age connotations to being accepted in popular culture. The reader then learns how essential oils work–from their antibiotic, antiviral, and antifungal properties to their mind/body/spiritual connection. The guide provides tips on buying and storing oils and includes useful one-page profiles of the plants that produce the oils, from basil to yuzu. The book’s exhaustive “how to use” list describes how to make face masks, foot baths, gargles, diffusers, and more. The list also teaches us that there are inexpensive, natural treatments for many common maladies.This book offers a great crash course in essential oils and aromatherapy is a useful reference handbook.
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Use this A-Z reference to access essential oils and their applications. Formulas for blending oils and detailed treatment outlines assure readers will gain the most from their application and use. — Midwest Book Review
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