A Beginner's Guide to Essential Oils: Recipes and Practices for a Natural Lifestyle and Holistic Health

by Hayley Hobson

Essential Oils ─ Your Pathway to Holistic Health Holistic medicine and wellness: Homeopathic medicine and alternative medicines are gaining in popularity daily. A Beginner's Guide to Essential Oils by Hayley Hobson can become your first step to a healthier life ─ your first step to holistic health.

Learn about essential oils from an expert: Hayley Hobson is an internationally known author and inspirational speaker. She presents uplifting and educational programs in well over 50 countries. After leaving her career as a lawyer, Hayley began teaching Pilates and yoga before building her essential oils business from the ground up. As the fastest Wellness Advocate in her company to achieve the ranks of Presidential Diamond, Double Diamond and Double Presidential, she remains one of the top performers in her company. In addition to developing online courses and trainings, Hayley is a sought-after speaker at many global business events. Along with her outreach to entrepreneurs, Hayley still works in her business daily and is consistently trending on social media. With over 65,000 Facebook followers she remains an influence among wellness advocates and an expanding network of peers. Visit Hayley at http: //www.hayleyhobson.com.

The holistic health pathway to wellness: Hayley promotes a holistic path to wellness by incorporating the use of essential oils with a regimen of exercise, healthy eating, and mental and emotional wellness practices. As a coach, she passionately empowers others to live their dreams and create lifestyle transformations by supporting them in becoming the best possible WHOLE versions of themselves.

A Beginner's Guide to Essential Oils includes real life stories and natural lifestyle principles. You'll learn about:


Hayley's signature recipes created for specific purposes
Helpful remedies
Daily changes
Safe handling and usage
Using oils to create balance as part of a holistic lifestyle
Why we get out of balance in the first place
A 31-Day plan with daily inspiration

Genres: Health

178 pages, Paperback

Published January 15, 2018

Reviews

[Jackie Orlowski · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was so casually written and was so self focused on the author that it was a major turnoff. Nothing is backed up by evidence or studies. I have read multiple places that you should take oils internally and also that you shouldn't, this says you should but doesn't say why or counter argue those who disagree. This book is written mostly about the author herself, by the end you will know her salary, how hard working she is, and that she is a "momtrepreneur". Unfortunately, I feel I know more about her than about the history, use, or benefits of essential oils. But it was a quick read and there are some decent recipes for lifestyle stuff as well as diffusing.

[Bonnie-Sue · Rating 5 out of 5]

easy to read a lot of info to start you off using essential oils.

[Emily · Rating 1 out of 5]

(recommendation for a better book at the end)

CAUTION: When reading this book and taking advice for cooking with essential oils make sure to talk to a professional. Essential oils are not moderated like food products and can cause irritation to skin, esophagus, and stomach lining. Make sure to educate yourself and get good quality oils if you intend to use it this way. This book completely misses that step.

REVIEW:
This book is poorly advertised. I picked up this beginners book to learn a bit about essential oils and their effects. However, this book is an authors self journey to positive realization. It's more of a poorly executed inspirational speech in my opinion. It's easy to read mostly because the information is so easy to digest, but it's easy to digest because people learn this through life experience and self discovery anyway. If you want to read about positivity then this is the book for you, but even its advice is easier said than done and kind of on the preachy side. It's subtitle speaks more to the book's content than the actual title. Also the recipes are lackluster and missing information I would have found vital such as how much carrier oil to dilute the oils into and how different water contents affect the aroma with its dilution (for different techniques of usage). Waste of money to buy, but if you intend on reading it, borrow it if you can at a library or something.

RECOMMENDATION
I picked this up before realizing my mom had a book on hand. I started reading the other one and learnt more in the first few pages than I did with this. It's called:

The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy: Over 800 natural, Nontoxic, and Fragrant Recipes to Create Health, Beauty, and Safe Home and Work Environments
by Valerie Ann Worwood

We own the 25th anniversary edition which is revised (probably updated) and expanded. And I absolutely love it. It's more professional and explains things that are understandable to beginners, but valuable for experienced practitioners. Haven't finished it yet, but highly valued. Priced well on several sites.

[EssentiallyMeagan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m not a beginner user of essential oils so maybe this book isn’t meant for me.

[Kim Brown · Rating 1 out of 5]

Spent more time talking about personal wellness techniques than it did discussing essential oils.

[Laura Aldridge · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall disappointing. This wasn’t so much a beginners guide to how to use oils but more a beginners guide to what oils can be used for. I don’t need to know that oils can be used for sickness or depression or what have you. I need to know how to beat use oils for those things.

I know that I can use green products to clean my house. A whole chapter on this was kind of a waste of my time when it just tells me that I should do it without any real support to the why.

A couple of recipes that seem interesting to try, but not until I grow my oil collection. As a beginner I need more basic single oil uses as I can’t afford to go out and buy the 3 dozen oils used across all the various recipes.

[Muamaroh · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not the book that i really want to read.

Gaya penulisannya lebih fokus ke penulis ketimbang essential oil. Padahal judulnya adalah A Beginner's Guide to Essential Oils: Recipes and Practices for a Natural. Entah mengapa lebih sering membahas si penulis suka apa, sering apa, atau prefer melakukan apa.

Menyelesaikan buku ini, aku yakin, pembaca akan lebih mengenal tentang si pengarang alih-alih essential oil itu sendiri.

Saya berharap mendapatkan info tentang karakteristik EO tapi justru kesulitan menyaring informasi tentang karakteristik atau manfaat masing-masing esential oil.

i gave up and decided to close this book

[Angie Vallejo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a great first book for those interested in essential oils. Easy to understand, straightforward information, and no boring research. This author takes a holistic approach: processes to lower stress, think more positively, etc. While that was encouraging information, I really appreciated the section that listed each essential oil and what it was best used for, in addition to the recipes at the back of the book with different diffuser blend recommendations. That alone made the book worthwhile.

[Brittany · Rating 1 out of 5]

Reads like self-published therapy for the author

This book is not about how to make essential oils, but is dominated by a stream of conscience narrative about why this rich white lady uses them. Yes, there are some recipes on how to add drops of essential oil to basic natural cleaning agents like baking soda and vinegar. I don’t think you need to page through someone’s diary to find that—use a search engine. Thank goodness I got this free through the library ebook app!

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative and a good entry resource into essential oils. My one real problem is about her approach to taking them orally. It needed a lot, and I mean a lot, more emphasis on the fact that some oils are not pure enough to be taken orally so caution needs to be taken. Other than that I look forward to trying some of the cleaning suggestions.

[Nola · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book did not really teach me anything new as I am quite familiar with essential oils. In all fairness to the author, I believe that this is a wonderful resource for the "newbie" to essential oils.

[Alicia Joy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really great perspective and recipes but I walked away with a lot of questions still.

[Rachel Heller · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book and I will be buying some essential oils and a diffuser.

[Akasha Shakti Lotus · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is 100% amateur writing. How many times is she going to tell us she's a "momtreprenuer"? LoL There was nothing in this book that I didn't already know or hadn't already tried. 🤷🏾‍♀️🥱