| nd Aromatherapy, highly acclaimed and internationally | | | | extracts. He most recently wrote the publication |
| renowned, is the work of founder and aromatherapy | | | | Essential Oil Safety. An all-encompassing reference |
| pioneer Robert Tisserand. Launched in 1969, | | | | book for the safe use and production of |
| Tisserand’s health care practice didn’t | | | | aromatherapy products, Essential Oil Safety talks |
| introduce aromatherapy until 1974. Tisserand | | | | about more than 200 essential aromatherapy oils and |
| Aromatherapy was the first to market with aromatic | | | | the products derived from them. |
| products and essential oils for the then-controversial | | | | The ingredients and items used in the Tisserand |
| aromatherapy process. The first book on | | | | production of aromatherapy products include these |
| aromatherapy was written by Robert Tisserand in | | | | essential blended oils as well as a base of massage oil |
| English in 1977. It was titled The Art of Aromatherapy | | | | and blended massage oils. On the Tisserand |
| and soon became the bible of the now-acclaimed | | | | aromatherapy Web site consumers can buy these |
| aromatherapy health care method. Later the | | | | essential oil products as well as tea tree, lavender, |
| increasingly popular The Art of Aromatherapy was | | | | white mint and bitter orange derivatives used for the |
| translated into nine languages. | | | | medicinal effects of aromatherapy. Consumers can |
| Robert Tisserand, with his conviction that | | | | also peruse, pay for and order baby bliss, |
| aromatherapy has great medicinal applications, helped | | | | aromatherapy vaporizing items, aromatherapy |
| found the Tisserand Institute in London England. Here | | | | products for massage and bath, vaporization and |
| he set himself up as an editorial committee member of | | | | inhalation. Tisserand aromatherapy essential oils are |
| the International Journal of Aromatherapy in 1988. For | | | | great as a massage that soothes and energizes, just |
| 12 years he wore this editorial hat, working side by side | | | | be diluting them. The dilution recipe is five drops of the |
| with herbal professionals and medical care | | | | Tisserand Aromatherapy essential oil to one |
| practitioners. | | | | tablespoon of vegetable oil or lotion. |
| Tisserand keeps abreast of the latest aromatherapy | | | | You can also pour three, four or five drops of |
| research, reporting on the results. He gives lectures on | | | | aromatherapy oil in your bath water for a relaxing and |
| aromatherapy all over the world, and conducts three | | | | therapeutic effect. Some of the essential oil is |
| annual conferences on aromatherapy. All are attended | | | | absorbed into your skin. The rest evaporates because |
| by professionals who travel from every part of the | | | | of the heat of the bath water. You can also pour six |
| globe. Tisserand have been interviewed time and again | | | | to twelve drops of aromatherapy oils into your |
| by publishers and broadcasters. | | | | vaporizer, creating an aroma that relaxes while it |
| Robert Tisserand has always been a hands-on | | | | invigorates. |
| administrator and still is active in the creation of his | | | | The only aromatherapy caution is for those with a skin |
| firm’s aromatherapy products. He oversees the | | | | condition, epilepsy, or asthma, or anyone who is |
| formulation of the essential oils and the choice of herb | | | | pregnant. |