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Experience the best moisturizers that nature has to offer! Whether you’re an office worker or a stone mason, a gardener or a mechanic, chances are your hands could use some love and attention. Help is here! In Making Herbal Hand Creams and Salves, you’ll find easy-to-follow recipes for more than twenty all-natural lotions and creams designed to hydrate, replenish, and smooth your skin for a beautiful, silky feeling. Author Norma Weinberg also offers expert advice on healing dry, cracked skin; softening calluses; soothing inflamed, sore cuticles; preventing premature skin aging; and removing age spots, as well as essential information on evaluating commercial products.


About the Author

Storey is at the center of a vast revival of do-it-yourself lifestyles, a movement fueled by a new awareness of environmental responsibility, an appetite for the homegrown and locally raised, an appreciation for one-of-a-kind items, and a passion for nature. Whether growing your own food or producing your own dairy products, rely on Storey for no-nonsense advice and new ideas . . . every time.

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This air revitalizer neutralizes up to 99% of odor causing bacteria and removes odors caused by pets, smoke and other odor causing bacteria. The unique vortex cleaning action uses an intense “rainforest” mist to wash incoming air with an emulsified botanical solution. This 100% natural botanical solution comes with a choice of 3- 2.03 fluid ounce scents. Refreshing citrus, energizing lime and soothing vanilla. No bacteria filled wicks or filters are required and the air revitalizer also helps to maintain optimum humidity levels while the soothing blue light adds ambiance to any environment.

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This Unique Heart Shaped Scent Locket has an Open Work Front and Back that Allows a Scent to Waft Upwards. Just Add Your Favorite Essential Oil or Other Scent to a Piece of Felt or Other Material and Put it Inside the Locket.

This Aromatherapy Locket Pendant is Crafted of Sterling Silver and Set with a Genuine Garnet and Marcasites. An Italian Made 20″ Sterling Silver Cable Chain is Included. Makes a Unique Gift!

• 4×4mm Genuine Garnet and Genuine Marcasite Accents
• Scent Locket is 1″ High (w/out bail) and 1″ Wide
• 20″ 2.5mm Cable Chain Included
• Weight is 17.1 grams
• Marked .925

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Whether it’s the tang of ozone in the air just before a rainstorm, the homey smell of freshly baked bread, or the inspiring scent of roses, natural aromas are everywhere with us, influencing our moods, and informing our perceptions. But natural aromas are capable of much more. Science is just beginning to reveal how aromas affect our bodies as well as our spirits, and what once seemed far-fetched–that you can treat many common ailments with nothing more than a pleasing smell–is now being taken seriously by many in the medical community. Yes, you can smell your way to good health, and now Aromatherapy For Dummies shows you how.

This down-to-earth guide takes the mystery out of essential oils and other aromatherapy tools, and shows you how pleasing scents can cure what ails you and enhance your life at home and at work. Among other things, you’ll discover how to:

• Safely and easily treat hundreds of common ailments
• Increase f ocus and concentration
• Relieve tension and relax
• Improve athletic performance
• Enhance romance
• Sniff out the right essential oils
• Create fragrant essences in your kitchen

Under the expert guidance of one of America’s leading botanical experts, you’ll bring the wonders of aromatherapy into your own life. Kathy Keville provides clear, concise, scientifically informed explanations of how plant essences can support body, mind, and spirit. She offers common sense advice on everything from therapeutics and cosmetics to the recreational uses of essential oils. And she supplies:

• Easy-to-follow instructions on how to select genuine aromatherapy products
• Symptom Guide–simple and easy remedies for 60 common conditions, listed alphabetically by symptom
• Aroma Guide–an A-to-Z guide of fragrant plants used in aromatherapy
• More than a hundred recipes for everything from oily skin to indigestion that you can whip up at home in five minutes

The world is full of natural fragrances that can help you feel better, work smarter, play harder, and relax. It’s time to get well with the healing power of smell, and now Aromatherapy For Dummies shows you how.

From the Back Cover

“If you’re wondering which of the dozens of aromatherapy books to buy … this is the one!” David Edelberg, M.D., Northwestern University “Always clever and charming, Kathi so clearly presents the safe and effective use of essential oils for true aromatherapy” Cheryl Hoard, President of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy and Owner of Cheryl’s Herbs

Features Quick Aromatherapy Recipes You Can Make at Home!

The world is filled with natural fragrances that can help you feel better, work smarter, and relax. This down-to-earth guide takes the mystery out of essential oils and other aromatherapy tools — and shows you step-by-step how pleasing scents can enhance your life at home and at work.

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Balancing, soothing, clarifying, normalizing are the qualities of this wonderful oil. Lavender essential oil has a light fresh aroma, its scent being described as floral-herbaceous, light, clear, balsamic, with woody undertones, and a camphor note. The name Lavender is derived from the Latin word ‘lavera,’ to wash. The most popular Essential Oil, it has a long list of applications, ranging from cosmetics to well-being remedies. It is suitable for all skin types and is considered a cell regenerator that is used in folk remedies to prevent scarring, stretch marks, and to slow the development of wrinkles. It is also known to moisturize dry scalp and hair. Aroma therapists use it to treat rheumatism, sprains, respiratory problems, abdominal cramps, depression, insomnia, tension-related problems, burns, sun-damaged skin, and various types of skin infections. It is effective in treating headaches, and migraines. Lavender tones the skin and is useful for all types of skin problems.,