Books about essential oils

Books on essential oils and aromatherapy

Essential oils are learned by using them, but they are understood by reading. This is a short selection with no filler: reference manuals that end up with folded corners rather than on the top shelf.

To start from scratch

If you have just arrived at aromatherapy, what you need is a book that puts the basics in order: what each oil is, how it is diluted and what is best avoided.

• Guía de la Aromaterapia: the general map, with profiles of the most used oils.
• Aceites esenciales para Aromaterapia: focused on daily practice and on synergies.
• El poder curativo de los aceites esenciales: for anyone who wants the reasoning behind each use.

To go beyond the oils

Aromatherapy rarely travels alone. Those who practise it end up interested in the plants, the stones and the rituals that have accompanied it for centuries.

• Piedras Curativas and Piedras y cristales: two brief encyclopaedias for identifying minerals and their uses.
• La Bruja Verde and El botiquín de las hadas: traditional herbalism and home preparations.
• Aceites esenciales para perros: the only title in the catalogue devoted to animals, with the precautions up front.

All the titles are in Spanish, published in Spain.