The Complete Guide to Creating Oils, Soaps, Creams, and Herbal Gels for Your Mind and Body

This book will walk you through the seemingly complex, but realistically simple, process of creating your own oils, soaps, creams, and gels, utilizing them effectively to boost your health both in mind and body. You will learn how to recognize scents and how they interact with each other in the form of oils for your body and mind. You will learn how to buy and use essential oils and recognize the properties of various pure essential oils. You will learn which common and uncommon essential oils are out there and what they entail as well as how to start blending them. The various equipment you will need, carrier and base oils, and solutions and dilutions used are outlined for you here. You will learn how to create recipes for cleaning around your home and how to use essential oil mixtures for essential beauty, baths, bath salts, herbal baths, children's baths, foot baths, hand and nail care, hair oils, shampoos, rinses, and perfumes. Additional uses, including everything from oils for the elderly and sick to your pets, are provided as well. No matter what you are using your oils and natural body products for, this book will help guide you through the process of creating and forming them.