Working with Unusual Essential Oils

Working with Unusual Essential Oils
Author: Helen Nagle-Smith
Publisher: Singing Dragon
Copyright: 2024
ISBN: 1805011790 / 978-1805011798
Pages: 272

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In Working with Unusual Essential Oils, Clinical Aromatherapist and author Helen Nagle-Smith explores 38 unique, lesser-known essential oils with intriguing beneficial properties that are not widely discussed in other reputable essential oil and aromatherapy books.

Helen Nagle-Smith's perspectives not only include the physical and chemical characteristics for each essential oil, but she also delves into her experiences with each oil from an emotional, spiritual and energetic perspective.

The Table of Contents, listed further down this page, identifies the 38 essential oils that are covered in detail within this book.

Each of the 38 essential oil profiles featured in Working with Unusual Essential Oils averages approximately 5-6 pages. The typical format for each of the profiles is as follows:

Common name
Botanical name
Summary statement
Background
Chemistry
Cautions and safety
Sustainability
Personality of the essential oil
Physical properties
Emotional and spiritual properties
An essential oil of our time
Teaming the essential oil with your other essential oils
Recipes

For each essential oil profiled, Helen breaks down the Teaming the essential oil with your other essential oils section into brief subsections that pertains to the specific oil. Subsections include (but are not limited to) helpful, relevant topics such as Stress and Anxiety, Sleep, Emotional Support and Pain.

Also for each essential oil profiled, she provides several recipes for the essential oil, based on the properties of the oil.

Although most readers may want to immediately dive directly into reading the profiles for the essential oils of most interest to them, I recommend making it a priority to read the introductory chapters, especially the chapter on Sustainability. Within this chapter, Helen Nagle-Smith offers invaluable suggestions on the methods and questions to ponder as you study essential oils that are new to you.

The book offers a comprehensive Bibliography. However, it is missing an index. Choosing the Kindle version of this book can help overcome the inconvenience of not having an index available because you can use Kindle's search capabilities.

About the Previous Version of This Book

Book cover for the previous version titled Working with Unusual Oils

In 2020, Helen Nagle-Smith self-published an original edition of this book, entitled Working with Unusual Oils. (The original title does not include the word Essential.)

Although the original version was a useful resource, the 2024 edition entitled Working with Unusual Essential Oils has been significantly enhanced.

The 2020 version contained approximately 18 profiles and contained about half the pages of the 2024 Singing Dragon edition of Working with Unusual Essential Oils. The Table of Contents, shown further down on this page, identifies the new essential oil profiles with an asterisk (*).

From the Back Cover of Working with Unusual Essential Oils

As the aromatherapy market expands, newer and lesser-known essential oils are often missed from traditional aromatherapy texts. This unique and updated toolkit profiles 38 emerging oils from around the globe, with each profile detailing the background, strengths, chemistry, cautions and safety considerations, sustainability, and personality of the essential oil. Each profile also includes the physical, emotional, and spiritual uses of each essential oil, as well as information on other oils with which it can be safely blended.

Written by an experienced researcher and aromatherapist, this distinctive and comprehensive guide includes case studies and over 100 recipes, as well as the most up-to-date information on the latest recognized essential oils.

Aromatherapists reading this book will benefit from specialist knowledge on lesser-known and unusual oils, creating a more innovative and expansive practice.

About the Author (From the Back Cover of Book)

Helen Nagle-Smith has been a clinical aromatherapist for almost 20 years and is an essential oil researcher, aromatherapy author, writer, and teacher. She runs her own aromatherapy practice and has taught courses on aromatherapy in many subjects including grief, transition and change, the menopause, vaginal health, and stress and anxiety. Helen is currently writing a book on the subject of aromatherapy and trauma. She lives in Buckinghamshire.

Table of Contents for Working with Unusual Essential Oils

Foreword by Jennifer Peace Rhind
Acknowledgements
About the author
Introduction
1. A new generation of aromatherapy
2. Sustainability
3. Researching less well-known essential oils
4. Working with a new essential oil
5. Angelica root (Angelica archangelica)
6. Angelica seed (Angelica archangelica) *
7. Blue spruce (Picea pungens)
8. Brazilian pepper (Schinus terebinthifolia) *
9. Buddha wood (Eremophila mitchellii) *
10. Cape May (Coleonema album)
11. Combava fruit (Citrus hystrix) *
12. Copaiba (Copaifera officinalis) *
13. Copal santo/ancho (Frankincense Mexico) (Bursera copallifera) *
14. Curry leaf (Murraya koenigii)
15. Damiana (Turnera diffusa) *
16. Devil's club (Oplopanax horridus) *
17. Elemi (Canarium luzonicum)
18. Eucalyptus staigeriana (Eucalyptus staigeriana) *
19. Fragonia® (Taxandria fragrans)
20. Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) *
21. Ho wood (CInnamomum camphora ct. linalool)
22. Iary (Psiadia altissima)
23. Inula (Dittrichia graveolens/Inula graveolens) *
24. Katafray (Cedrelopsis grevei)
25. Kunzea (Kunzea ambigua)
26. Lemon myrtle (backhousia citriodora)
27. Mango myrtle® (Syzgium oleosum) *
28. Manuka (Leptospermum scoparium) *
29. Moldavian dragonhead (Cracocephalum moldavica) *
30. Monarda (Monarda fistulosa)
31. Magarmotha/Cypriol (Cyperus scariosus)
32. Palo santo (Bursera graveolens)
33. Petitgrain lemon (Citrus limonum) *
34. Petitgrain mandarin (Citrus reticulata)
35. Pineapple myrtle® (Leptospermum petersonii variety 'B' ct. pineallple mytrle/alpha-pinene oil) *
36. Plai (Zingiber cassumunar/Zingiber montanum)
37. Rosalina (Melaleuca ericifolia)
38. Saro (Cinnamosma fragrans)
39. Silver fir (Abies alba)
40. Star anise (illicium verum) *
41. Violet leaf absolute (Viola odorata) *
42. Yuzu (Citrus junos) *
43. Final thoughts
Useful resources
Bibliography

* The essential oils that are denoted with an asterisk (*) are the essential oils that are new to this edition of Working With Unusual Essential Oils.

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