Aromadermatology: Aromatherapy in the Treatment and Care of Common Skin Conditions

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This is one of the books I am referencing in my Master's Thesis. It is a bit outdated. I would suggest this as a reference for Skin care by estheticians as well as nail tech.Word or warning below for another book on AmazonPlease do not get the overpriced MLM Essential Oil Desk Reference (which is TOTALLY worthless in my humble opinion), if you are doing a professional study or paper most in it is misleading.

It is so difficult to find quality bookss featuring good science and studies conducted with natural compounds. This book is chalk full of findings and resources. For anyone interested in the science behind aromatherapeutic applications this is a must have.

I have this book both in paperback and the Kindle edition.Aromatherapy's literature is plagued, frankly, by a lot of new age mumbo jumbo, full of anecdotal blether and a total lack of scientific rigour (and frequently *prides* itself in being that way!).This book is an admirable attempt to cover the use of essential oils in treating common skin conditions, from a serious, evidence-based healtch care perspective. The book's scope is probably its strongest point - it surveys a lot of background information on anatomy and biochemistry of the skin, and good rigorous attention to essential oil chemistry and safety. It also, whilst not attempting to be a textbook for differential diagnosis, provides a good overview of the types of skin conditions which exist and how aromatherapy might be efficacious in their treatment. It's also well referenced, with a good couple of pages of references for every chapter.I'm not a health care professional myself, nor a trained aromatherapist - just an interest amateur, mainly reading this book to expand my knowledge and find suggestions for self care. I think this was where I found the text began to let me down a little... Despite its obvious striving to be rigorous, nearly every page seemed to contain rather handwaving claims of the kind "we are beginning to..." and "it is coming to be recognised..." - by whom? and when will this process be complete? Ultimately these kind of claims are rather meaningless. The text often has a tendency to spring mention of some particular oil for a particular condition in a rather arbitrary way, getting specific and anecdotal in the middle of a chapter for no particular reason I could discern, then switching back to generalities and overviews. Oils are always referred to by Latin names (a good idea, I think) but these are rather inconsistently glossed with common English names (sometimes they're given, often they're not - and several were missing from the round-up table in the books' appendices). The typography used for the headings is also rather confusing - they seem to be using 4 or 5 layers of nesting for subheadings, using different font widths - but as these aren't numbered, it was often unclear to me which sections were subheadings and which were fresh sections. At times the book does make an effort to explain aspects of (say) physiology to the non-specialist reader, in a helpful and lucid way ... but then it will in the next few lines spew out a lot of technical medical terms with no guidance or explanation.Overall, I felt this book was able to give me a good overview of the scientific and medical principles behind using oils for skin care, but I was often left a little frustated a lack of concrete suggestions and conclusions, as it presented many more caveats, uncertainties and gaps in current findings. In fairness, this may be representative of the state of current knowledge in the field, but I often just wanted to get more straightforward suggestions of what and how much to try! And as I mentioned above, I think the book could benefit from a bit more editing and consistency in terms of detail, depth, layout and nomenclature.As for the Kindle edition, just to add that considering the book is rather technical, containing many footnoted references, tables and diagrams, I found the Kindle edition works and displays very well, still displaying all this info clearly and being easy to navigate. Many books of this nature don't render well in eBook format but this one was fine.

I'm giving this book 3 stars because that's what I consider it to be based on how I like learning. I'm sure someone with a more scientific mind might give this book 5 stars. There is a lot of great information, it's just presented very much in textbook or study form. I know they tried to make it more accessible, but it isn't.One of the hardest things for me to get past is the use of scientific names. I really really REALLY think that this should have been made clear in the description. Or even better, why not use the names most of us are familiar with or at least create a version for those who prefer to go by the names most people recognize. In the end, I'm just annoyed. Like why? Seriously! WHY?I am SOooooo disappointed that all of this wonderful information is so inaccessible. It's so SO sad!

Cet ouvrage est d'un niveau nettement plus élevé que les livres 'classiques' d'aromathérapie. Il est vraiment bien concentré sur son sujet : toutes les informations données, même quant aux familles aromatiques ou à la toxicité des HE, le sont au regard des effets sur la peau, et plus spécifiquement sur des problèmes plus sérieux de la peau, comme les dermatoses ou l'acné, dépassant par conséquent également les informations qu'on trouve dans les ouvrages de cosmétologie naturelle. Il ne s'adresse donc pas à ceux qui souhaitent simplement améliorer le soin personnel de leur peau, car il est vraiment approfondi et technique, mais bien aux formulateurs ou dermatologues attirés par les produits naturels.Malgré son caractère approfondi, les explications sont d'une grande clarté, le livre n'élude pas les définitions ou les informations plus fondamentales, comme la structure et les fonctions de la peau.Les explications sont détaillées et précises, mais sans blabla inutile.L'intérêt majeur est la référence constante à des recherches sur les effets des HE sur la peau, informations qui nuancent et complètent de façon conséquente ce que l'on dit généralement des HE présentées.La structure est très claire aussi, et la présentation agrémentée de nombreux schémas et tableaux.Enfin, ce n'est pas parce qu'il est fondé sur la recherche scientifique qu'il néglige des voies plus psychologiques du traitement, en abordant aussi le volet psychique des HE.Je n'ai absolument aucune critique à faire à cet ouvrage !