Review

"Aromatherapy for Women, of use to both men and women, clearly illustrates the author's knowledge of essential oils and her confidence in applying them to our everyday lives, whether for healing illness, eliminating stress, or enhancing the appearance of the body. This book would make a fine gift for any woman interested in aromatherapy." ― The Herb Quarterly

Product Description

Extracted from flowers and herbs, aromatic essential oils have been used for centuries to heal and beautify, offering a gentle yet effective alternative in the treatment of illness, stress, and imbalance. Maggie Tisserand brings a wealth of practical experience to this book, focusing on women and their particular health and beauty concerns. She shows how the unique properties of specific essences can be used to maintain healthy hair and skin, ease minor complaints, and assist in treating more serious health problems.

The author shares her techniques for enhancing general well-being and sensual satisfaction with massage. She also gives advice on how to use aromatherapy during pregnancy and childbirth, and includes a chapter on remedies for children's illnesses. Tisserand's knowledge of aromatherapy is both accessible and comprehensive, providing the reader with excellent guidance to the healing benefits of aromatic essences.

Revised and expanded edition of the aromatherapy bestseller.

Includes recipes for preparing your own oils, baths, perfumes, masks, compresses, and other remedies.

A resource section directs you to reputable suppliers.


About the Author

Maggie Tisserand has worked with and loved essential oils and other natural remedies for more than 20 years. She lives in Dorset, SouthWest England. Her latest book took over three years to research and write.  Aromatherapy vs MRSA will be published in autumn 2014.

Maggie was the third published aromatherapy author in the English language when Harper Collins (Thorson’s) published Aromatherapy for Women in 1985. The book has been re-published several times, in many languages, and with international sales, has sold in excess of 700,000 copies. Now, Maggie has written and published Antiviral Aromatherapy for anyone interested in taking a look at alternative ways of staying healthy in this time of ‘living with the coronavirus’.

By March 2022, Maggie had seven published books on various aspects of aromatherapy. Essential Oils for Lovers, Harper Collins. The 14-Day Aromabeauty Plan, Random House. Stress: The Aromatic Solution, Hodder & Stoughton. The Magic & Power of Lavender, co-written with the German publisher of Aromatherapy for Women. Aromatherapy vs MRSA did not attract a UK publisher and was originally published by Clarity Press, but now sits in Singing Dragon, an imprint of Hachette. This sixth book, researched and written to highlight the growing problem of Antimicrobial Resistance, was ahead of its time and sales have been slow.

Essential oils – an integral part of Maggie’s life – inspired her to write a book based on her personal experiences of successfully treating childhood ailments, as friends would regularly ring her for advice. In 1983, when based in Brighton, Maggie checked into a hotel a few miles along the coast in order to begin the writing of Aromatherapy for Women, without distraction from her children. The first half was completed within a week – with pencil and paper – and once back home, Maggie typed up the chapter contents on a portable-manual typewriter, with cut and paste being a pair of scissors and a roll of sticky tape. In 1985, Maggie was a published author and finding it necessary to give radio interviews and talks, she overcame her shyness and fear of public speaking, in order to express her gratitude for all the wonderful essential oils that underpin aromatherapy. When the Japanese translation of Aromatherapy for Women came to the attention of a Tokyo businessman, he acted on his gut feeling that aromatherapy would one day be a great success throughout Japan, and arranged a meeting in Brighton. The pace of Maggie’s life changed dramatically, as that first meeting was the beginning of a twenty-three-year business relationship, with Maggie visiting Japan on five occasions. In 1989, when Maggie delivered her first talks to attentive Tokyo audiences, she was the very first speaker on the subject of aromatherapy, anywhere in Japan, and this created a demand for all her subsequent books to be translated into Japanese.

As a child, growing up in West London, Maggie would gather rose petals from her neighbours’ gardens. She loved the scent and rubbed her dolls with the fragrant juice ‘to make them feel better’, never imagining that one day a massage with essential oil of rose would be known as aromatherapy. Since losing her father at the age of fourteen, Maggie was always determined to make her own way in life, wishing to be as independent as possible by finding the perfect job – one that would be fulfilling. Maggie left home at the age of nineteen and was twenty-one when she discovered library books on the subject of natural healing, and felt that she had found her vocation. Quickly becoming passionate about utilising gentle remedies instead of pharmaceuticals, Maggie vowed to avoid antibiotics and painkillers for the rest of her life - providing it was safe to make that choice. In 1972, Maggie embraced a completely new way of overcoming disease and staying well by using essential oils and other alternative remedies and therapies at the very first sign of illness, rather than allowing the disease to be pathogenic enough fto make an appointment with a doctor. Maggie knew that alternative medicine was going to become her life’s work, and it was that passion which brought her into contact with Robert Tisserand (now an author and international lecturer on the subject of aromatherapy). The eleven-year marriage produced three beautiful children, with Maggie utilising essential oils during pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing, watching her children grow up healthy, without recourse to antibiotics or pharmaceutical painkillers, and only visiting the doctors’ surgery to obtain a diagnosis.

Fast forward to the viral pandemic, shaking the very foundations of civilisation – financial chaos, an overwhelming of hospital staff and supplies. Governments and businesses struggling to contain panic, whilst finding ways to keep citizens and customers up to date with progress. And millions of people suffering the misery and stress of personal financial and family catastrophe. In early 2021, Maggie awoke one morning with the idea of writing a book that was small, inexpensive, easy to navigate and that could offer advice on dealing with the coronavirus virus and its after effects – long Covid. Antiviral Aromatherapy is Maggie’s offering to the world.