This Book Contains Little Information on Water-soluble Oils
349599
This book is primarily a course in basic painting tecnique applicable to any medium. There is almost no information specific to painting with water-soluble oils and some of what it has is misleading. The author states that they will have the same consistency, feel and volume as regular oils, which they do not. Don't waste your money unless you are a beginner who has never held a brush before. The basic instruction is good, but is almost juvenile in approach and has little to do with water-soluble oils.
1688900
The Editorial Review states "At last, a book written by a professional healer and witch especially for the pagan community!"  This is a little misleading.  It is not surprising however as much of the information about this book is misleading.  The version of the book which I received did not have 140 pages, rather 100.  The text portion of the book is more in the realm of 81 pages as 21 pages are wasted on photos and drawings.

As expected for such a small amount of information about a very large topic, the book is at best superficial.

If you are looking for a good book on the topic I would suggest:

The Healing Craft: Healing Practices for Witches and Pagans by Janet Farrar, Stewart Farrar, and Gavin Bone
2034794
I'm sure the author may know about RV's but I don't think this book was near being ready for publishing. To be of much value to someone troubleshooting leaks, the book would need some illustrations, quality photos and depth into the repair. It is a very short read with little valuable information the would help you in tracing a leak. If you understand the book, you probably already have the knowledge.
3674623
There is nothing in this book that cannot be found in free articles posted online. This books offers no specific details- like the legal process of starting a business, pricing guides, or even technical details like melting points or the difference between essential oils and fragrance oils.
3292010
This book is just another essential oil mixology. I was looking for a book with recipes for creating magical oils from herbs and flowers picked from my garden, not scents manufactured in sterile factories with some stranger's unknown vibration messing with the energy
4630290
I liked it simply because I found out a simple fact about essential oils that I did not know that I felt was extremely relevant for a dabbler in oils -- I learned something very useful just from skimming the sample, so I purchased.  The 600 recipes are a marketing ploy -- there might be 600 but only through sleight of hand (including a generic overlay of each "recipe" for multiple uses thereby multiplying each use/recipe by a factor of 4?) -- something like that (I hope you get the drift).  If you are looking for scent recipes or skin care recipes (unless its an ailment) look elsewhere -- not the domain or intent of this book.  I still say the book was useful and the price was low, although I would have preferred the "free" offer which I apparently missed.
3065410
Lots of info, and specifically in regard to Young Living oils, which is fantastic.  However, the chapter on ailments is very disorganized and it is very difficult to find information alphabetically about specific ailments.  Also, I have found other books that give informaion on common ailments, which are omitted from this particular book.  Decent info, could be much better.
2364007
I have to admit I have only read the chapter on herbal remedies so I will say that my review can only be a partial one. But being someone who has turned over rocks and stones for months to find remedies for my father's ailments I can honestly say that this chapter seems like something that could have been pulled from a herbal remedy commentary written in the '70s. This chapter does very little to discuss the cutting edge of neutraceuticals as they relate to today's products. I understand that it may be meant to focus on "herbs" but even so it focuses on your grandmother's generation of folk herbs. Also there has been fascinating recent studies done by universities, hospitals and other medical research groups on compounds contained within many of nature's substances such as saccharides, curcuminoids and isothiocyanates. It doesn't even touch on these studies as they relate to modern day medicine. And it amazes me why it doesn't mention how the medical industry is narrowing down the reasons why some plant based substances work to basically a handful of phytonutrients present in certain plants and so on. I think it would have been better served to focus on phytonutrients and how they relate to plant compounds and to then focus on what is currently being studied today and which of those do and don't show scientific promise. That way you're actually giving a real education to the reader and not just a vague summary of herbal remedies and conjectured attacks on people associated with trying to push their alternative medicine agenda. The chapter came across to me as if a very intelligent person had to write a chapter on herbal remedies and only had 24 hours to do it and so they just quickly wrote a "filler" chapter using their own common sense and applying that to the most basic of herbal knowledge.
2294792
I'm really disappointed on this book. Most recipes are described with very rare and very expensive , foreign , or synthetic blends. My grandmothers were always using local and available herbs for healing and magic , which didn't make it less powerful. I was hoping to find more locally adjusted to regions , where herbal Spirits connected  to each other growing in same environment and in created relationship type of recipes and magical formulas . There is almost none without herbs almost impossible to get in natural form. There is nothing about infused oils, how to make magical infused oils. I gather herbs and other plants parts year around and have some recipes left from my grandmothers. I was hopping to find  native recipes,  used old days by Witches locally and herb "talking to each other" in formulas.
4341204
There are words but no real content. I didn't understand the content at all and I have used oils for over 30 years.
3703748
the book is a nice reference, but I was disappointed there was not more specific information included.  I like to have "recipes" for using essential oils that are tried & true...those which others have used with success.
2183971
I bought this book hoping to get an inside look at pharmaceutical sales.  I knew practically nothing before I opened it, and while I certainly feel more knowledgable now, I was quite disappointed with the lack of in-depth content in this book.  Throughout every chapter, the author merely skims the surface, leaving you wanting for more information but never providing it.  The book is covered in lists and bullet points with little or no explanations.  Elaboration or definitions are sometimes necessary but are either not given until later in the book or not provided at all.  It seems as if the author could have easily provided much more useful information almost ubiquitously throughout the text but just chose not to.

Mind you, I am likely being somewhat harsh (probably in part as a skeptical reaction to the two glowing reviews that this book has so far recieved), and there is good beginner-level content in it.  If I go into the world of pharmaceutical sales I'm sure it'll come in handy - just not as handy as I'd have hoped.
3537583
The title of the book should only be 50 all natural fragrance recipes and it should leave our the part that says the art of perfume making made easy.  Also I do not believe there are actually any technical "perfumes" in the book.  It's a book giving you many recipes for scents to wear.  Most you have to shake before using,  True perfum does not require shaking.  I was looking for several things: what "note" each essential oil is, an exhaustive list because there are only about 100 EOs so it wouldn't have been hard to do.  But it doesn't even go into how to create scents based on notes.  There is sooo very little explanation, none really, as to why certain things work with others or any explanation regarding how much one should use of certain scents like cinnamon based on how strong they are.  It does not go into any explanation about preservatives.  There is no master recipe that you can use in order to create your own perfum.  There are no precautions.  If you are looking for easy recipes that you can make with things which you mostly already have in your scent-making materials, then this is a book that would prove useful.  I believe the fragrances probably only last a few months, not years.  I wish she had given some idea on expiration dates or better yet an explanation on why certain things would need expiration dates.  There aren't any preservatives as far as I can see and some of the recipes are definitely ones  that would trap bacteria in them!  For instance an oil plus a wax and some EOs without some preservative will not last very long at all.  So while I might try a couple of her recipes I will not likely give any as gifts because I'm not clear on how long they last nor do I want to tell someone they have to shake their "perfume" each time they use it!  I gave it 3 stars instead of two because there are indeed 50 fragrances and that's half of what the book promises.
4267586
I am very surprised this book has so many good reviews. There are no citations or explanations for any of the claims. The writing itself is very poor. I buy DoTERRA oils, but sometimes I feel their information is slightly dishonest and self preserving. I really was hoping for some useful information that i didn't get from this book.
3983128
Although I have had this book for years, I find myself turning to it less and less.  This is not because the information has grown out of date, but because the writings are tinged with an almost alarmist viewpoint, frequently basing cautions and warnings on in vitro research of one isolated chemical or extremely concentrated extract of a plant.

Herbal Medicines: a Guide for Health Care Professionals has been written to appeal to - and somewhat to pander to - the mainstream, and is most useful in the capacity of the mainstream.  The monographs are short, often one page per herb, and don't contain enough information for proper use.  There isn't even any talk about methods of administration!  If anything, this reads as a list of possible interactions and difficulties one may acquire through the consumption of natural products rather than a guide to properly using them.

That said, in 1996, this was likely one of the very first compilations of herbal research that was bound and delivered concisely, and the authors deserve recognition in light of that.  However, I do wish that someone with more of a bent towards acutal herbalism was included in the authorship.
1138814
I was initially excited and looking forward to this book. I respect all 3 of the authors and was hoping they had done a bit more nutritional research before embarking on this. But sadly they hadn't. There is very little information on omega 3's in the book and they are still skirting around the issue. Better books exist on the science of omega 3's and whilst the book discourages fats from omega 6 sources the majority of the recipes still had an abundance in them. No mention that not everyone can convert ALA because they lack enzymes necessary for the conversion and no mention of the truly great sources of omega 3'S.Walnuts for example are still predominately omega 6 nuts......
I agree with that last reviewer in that there really hasn't been one solid book yet on raw nutrition. I'm sticking to the WAP and Paleo community to provide me information on fatty acid nutrition/guidelines/cutting edge information.
4034557
I agree with the other reviewers that the pictures in this book are good, but they are probably the highlight in a very basic and intuitive book that provides very little information. I happen to be a licensed massage therapist, so I may be a little hard when it comes to critiquing this book, but the book suggests using OIL to massage your dog! I can't imagine my dogs enjoying that, plus they have plenty of oil on their coats that you shouldn't need that. I would not reccommend this book because you can basically figure out most of these techniques on your own. Take a lot at other books that are published on the subject. It's not worth the money or the money to ship.