A comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to essential oils for healing everyday ailments—now with a new foreword by the author. Did you know that a few drops of lavender oil can be added to your kids’ shampoo to protect them from head lice? Or that a drop of clove oil mixed with orange oil can relieve a mind-numbing toothache? Essential oils can be applied to a wide range of health issues—from common problems such as nausea, dry skin, and insect bites to more serious issues like migraines and arthritis. This A-to-Z guide is your go-to reference for taking advantage of these homeopathic wonders. Ailments are listed in alphabetical order and are accompanied by hundreds of recipes featuring widely available essential oils. Tips on safe handling, usage, storage, and contraindications ensure that even the most novice of essential oils user can get the healing benefits from our planet’s natural resources.

This book offers the most up-to-date and evidence-based information surrounding integrative treatments for acne and rosacea. Ranging from topical solutions, to nutrition, to mind-body medicine, each chapter addresses evidence for use and patient outcomes. Discussions regarding oral and topical botanical supplements and dietary modifications are complemented by the examination of non-Western healing systems' approach to acne and rosacea. Backed by clinical evidence, chapters feature real patient outcomes with complete explanations of the viability of the treatment. Concise and unique, Integrative Dermatology: Practical Applications in Acne and Rosacea, is an invaluable text for not only the dermatologist, but the pediatrician, family practitioner, internist, and holistic/alternative provider.

Cosmeceuticals are ingredients or products that provide cosmetic and therapeutic benefits and which can be obtained without a prescription. They are one of the fastest growing segments in the personal care product market. Even in the worst economic climate, sales of cosmetics remain robust. Beauty enhancers are our best means of feel-good escapism, and we are not about to give them up. The ingredients, sales locations, and the regulation of sales are dynamic aspects of the industry. Here we give you a heads-up on where the market is going so you can make strategic decisions for your practice. This book will give you an understanding of facial cosmeceuticals examining the needs of the face, moisturizer formulation, noninvasive testing, and clinical evaluation to establish efficacy. It sheds light on topics such as the delivery mechanisms of active ingredients, vitamin A and C and other antioxidants, growth factors and stem cells, peptides, or amino acids. Topics also include the use of cosmeceuticals for the treatment of acne, rosacea, and hair loss and for hair care as well as the treatment of scars and cosmeceuticals for sun protection and protection from pollution. It also covers aspects of nutraceuticals and diets for healthy skin.

Finally a cure for rosacea. This book discusses the author's experience with rosacea and how she cured her rosacea in two days with a simple inexpensive topical treatment after twenty years of trying dozens of ineffective supplements and treatments. This book is the most comprehensive book on the subject of rosacea. With the information in this book, you can stop avoiding rosacea "triggers" and live a life free from the worry of having a rosacea flare-up. You will learn the inexpensive treatment that cured the author's rosacea in two days, the types of rosacea and identify the type you have. You will discover the common supplements that can cause rosacea and the supplements beneficial for healthy skin. You will learn the natural toxin free cleansers, moisturizers and cosmetics to maintain a flawless complexion as well as the best natural hair dyes and shampoos. Find out the best sunblocks to use on your face and a natural treatment for brown spots. This book will teach you the foods to eat for healthy skin, the best pillow cases to use and how to treat ocular rosacea. The author is a registered dietitian/nutritionist and ordained metaphysical minister.

Smooth, flawless skin is much desired by both men and women because it's such a big factor in terms of a person's attractiveness, seemingly reflecting on one's hygiene and healthcare. This is why skin conditions such as Rosacea, while not serious, cause so much concern. Rather than actually harming a person physically, Rosacea often creates self-esteem issues in sufferers due to the recurring facial rashes or pustule outbreaks. If you are among the significant number of Americans who commonly suffer from this chronic problem, take heart that Rosacea can be easily managed, and this book will show you how. Read on to learn what specifically triggers the condition, as well as its different types and common symptoms. You will also learn about the available medical treatments and the known natural remedies that will help you keep Rosacea outbreaks at bay. If you've decided that you no longer want Rosacea to affect your quality of life, and that you are ready to adapt lifestyle changes to improve your skin condition, then let's get started!

Identify precisely blocked emotions that cause health challenges. Discover how auto-immune disorders, acne, and rosacea are painful 'smart emotions' crying for help and love. Learn how despite appearances, natural healing can happen. Let this book guide you to healthier relationships/lifestyles, your own spiritual truth, awakening to your life's purpose and hands-on-remedies. Learn from clients' healing stories, how to reclaim your childhood and love your true-self. As a society, we have been taught to deny our hidden hurts, losses, traumatic events, high pressured stressors, and abuse that we do to ourselves or receive from others. We have choked off our life-force energy, served others until exhausted, joy-less on empty. We can now stop the trial and error anxiety and expensive search for finding physical problems' answers by replacing fear with faith and trusting our bodies to emotionally heal (on their own). Our bodies don't lie! This book can show you how to begin to treat your emotions as a friend to guide you into a new way of compassionately validating all the ways your sensory body gives you accurate intuitive signals that once understood, corrective action taken, wellness happens. May you embrace your true self with great curiosity for the mystery and mastery that lies within you. It makes sense that as unique as your finger prints are, you are born with a readily available Intelligence that governs your body, mind, and spirit. When in harmony with nature, you can perpetually stay healthy and happy. Follow each chapter teaching you how to respect your emotions, gut feel or intuition, gifted to you as your lifetime inheritance to accurately guide you. Learn how your 'smart emotions' precisely target your life's issues, not as an error of nature, but intuitively getting your attention to invite in healthier, happier lifestyles! See this book as similar to a holistic insurance policy, knowing how to prevent suffering and protect your future. The author believes one day soon, we will eliminate most invasive surgeries and mental and physical challenges as we see them for what they are - a call for Love. Georgie Anna Holbrook is an internationally recognized, gifted empathic healer. She intuitively interprets for others how their disguised emotions show up in mild to extreme health challenges. Many times, she has witnessed these same conditions reverse. One of her passions in life is being a spiritual director, prayer mentor, and author. Georgie went from having a tragic deforming disease to experiencing in the seventh year the natural steps to totally self-heal. She has since taught these same principles to multitudes of people both nationally and internationally. She facilitates others to be empowered, live happier lifestyles, find work they enjoy that aligns with their passion, and witness nature by design that rewards them with health and prosperity. She is the author of Joy-Full Holistic Remedies, How to Experience Your Natural Ability to Heal, and The Rosacea-Acne Natural Remedy. Her books CD's, and DVD's can be found on her web site.

Best-selling author and herbalist Stephanie L. Tourles offers reliable guidance on using essential oils effectively and safely. This friendly, accessible introduction to the 25 most versatile oils for health and wellness highlights the key characteristics of lavender, chamomile, eucalyptus, lemon, peppermint, rosemary, tea tree, and other popular oils. You’ll learn how to blend and apply these highly concentrated aromatherapy oils for use from head to toe. The 100 recipes — including Tranquil Demeanor Balm, Super Herbal Antibacterial Drops, Sunburn Rescue Spray, Sore Muscle Bath Salts, and Dream Weaver’s Relaxing Rub — offer fragrant, natural ways to enhance well-being and promote healing.