Resources
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Animals
For information relating to essential oils with animals (the IFA only advice of the application with humans) please visit the following websites:
- Pet Poison Helpline www.petpoisonhelpline.com
Condition Specific Support
If you require additional information and support for a specific condition you may also benefit from contacting a specific condition organisation or charity, some of which also provide supportive networks, research, seminars and can put you in touch with others in a similar situation please click here.
Distillation
The art of distillation from the 17th Century www.levity.com
Endangered Essential Oils
For information relating to threatened essential oil species please visit the following websites:
- Cites www.cites.org
- IUCN Red List www.iucnredlist.org
Essential Oil Chemical Components and Therapeutic Properties
For information relating to specific essential oils please visit the following websites:
Herbmed www.herbmed.org
Herb Research Foundation www.herbs.org
Jeanne Rose Blog http://jeanne-blog.com
Oils and Plants www.oilsandplants.com
Levity www.levity.com
Perfect Potions (essential oil monographs) www.perfectpotion.com.au
The Good Scents Company www.thegoodscentscompany.com
Essential Oils & Drug Interactions
Drug Interactions https://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html
Essential Oil Farming
Soil Association www.soilassociation.org
NHS Hospitals and Hospices Offering Complementary Therapies
Complementary therapies is demanded by patients and hence the provision of services provided by the NHS. Complementary therapies are provided for patients, service users, carers and their family members in almost every cancer and palliative care service in the country. Some of the most well known include:
- Christie NHS Foundation Trust
- Fountain Centre
- Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust
- Mulberry Centre
- Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
- St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- and a wide range of hospices and Macmillan cancer centres.
Multi-discipline and CAM Updates
CAM Quest www.cam-quest.org/en
Cochrane Complementray Medicine https://cam.cochrane.org/
College of Natural Medicine www.collegeofmedicine.org.uk
Positive Health www.positivehealth.com/users/register
The Research Council for Complementary Medicine www.rccm.org.uk
Parliamentary Reports and Debates
- Consumer Health Protection Committee: Guidance on Essential Oils in Cosmetic Products
- Department of Health and Social Care www.gov.uk
- European Medicines Agency: Public statement on the use of herbal medicinal products containing estragole
- EU databse Cosing Annexe III (it does not list essential oils but rather the constituents of the essential oils)
- Guide to quackery, health fraud visit www.quackwatch.org
- House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology www.publications.parliament.uk
- International Trade Centre: Marketing Manual and Web Directory for Organic Spices, Culinary Herbs and Essential Oils
- Knowledgeshare – Information for evidence based practice www.knowledgeshare.nhs.uk
- Medi Herb: Potential herb-drug interactions for commonly used herbs chart
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence www.nice.org.uk
- Regulation (ec) no 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council Manual on Cosmetic Products
- University of York and NHS Centre for Reviews & Dissemination www.york.ac.uk
Pioneers of Aromatherapy
The fathers and mothers of alternative medicine www.oilsandplants.com
Pregnancy and Aromatherapy
NHS Chelsea and Westminister Hospital: Guidance for the use of Aromatherapy on the Birthing Unit
NHS Royal Berkshire: Aromatherapy use in Labour Care (GL1085)
Products and Cosmetics
For information relating to labelling, advertising and regulating of product contents and guidelines please visit the following websites:
- Appellation d’orgine controllée (AOC) - product identification standards
- Aromatherapy Trade Council www.a-t-c.org.uk
- Cosmetic Ingredient Database https://cosmetics.specialchem.com/
- The Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) www.cir-safety.org
- Health Sciences Authority (HSA) (Singapore) www.hsa.gov.sg
- International Fragrance Association www.ifraorg.org
- Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency pages www.gov.uk guidance: A guide to what is a medicinal product
- Personal Care Truth www.personalcaretruth.com
- QTTC (China) www.qtccc.com
- Research Institute for Fragrance Materials www.rifm.org
- Trading Cosmetic Products: Trading Standards Fact Sheet
Statistics
For information relating to statistics please visit the following website:
- Aromatherapy And Medicine in UK Health And Social Care
- Prevalence of use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by patients/consumers in the UK: systematic review of surveys
- CBI Product Factsheet: Aromatherapy in Europe
- Essential oil and aromatherapy market is expected to witness the fastest growth in the market during the assessment period…
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