Here are some useful links for my friends who are interested in the subject. I'm not experienced in it yet, there are my own first steps... this blog will not be about aromatherapy. I'm not qualified to give any recommendations, but there are some tips of buying stuff for it (oh yeah, I'm good in shopping).
First months of parenting and first baby's illnesses revived my interest in aromatherapy. I used it before in application to myself - to solve small cosmetic problems and in home made soaps and cosmetics overall, to heal cuts or muscle pain, to get better sleep or to ease symptoms of cold. But I've never really studied the subject in depth, acting more intuitively (knowing qualities of some essential oils) rather than knowing right receipts, dosages and methods of application. It can work fine with adults (not all the time though... I, personally, burnt a spot on my face once, which healed very slowly) but certainly is not a good approach with babies. I know that aromatherapy really works, but as any medicine it has to be used with great caution, especially with little ones.
The knowledge is essential, so I started from purchasing right books.
Books I've found useful:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/
If you have severe interest, having one book is probably not enough. Authors do not agree with each other 100% and all books have strongest and weakest chapters. These 2 seem to me more or less fine for beginning.
When it's decided what essential oils and tools must be in your kit, it's time to buy them.
Unfortunately, I didn't find a good supplier of essential oils in US yet(.
All web sites I've found, seemed to me offering a bit or too much overpriced products and not full assortment. Price is important too, because EO are quite expensive themselves, and prices are rather volatile - they can vary by 100% and more from supplier to supplier. And it doesn't always correlate with the quality, from my experience, although sometimes it does.
I've been always used to buy essential oils and other cosmetic supplies from the French shop aroma-zone.com. The only cons of it - all interface is in French (there is English version too, but it's far not as good as French). It's really worth to use translate.google.com to buy from them. Prices, quality and assortment are really the best. They show price with tax, but you don't pay sales tax if they ship to US, so the cost of the shipment will be partly or fully compensated by that). And the assortment is really one of the best. EG if you want to buy thyme type linalool (the only type of the very powerful Thyme plant which is allowed to use with children), you can find it only at very rare places, aroma-zone is one of them.
For essential oils go here: http://www.aroma-zone.
They often sell promotional packs which are VERY good deal for the starters! http://www.aroma-zone.com/
Shipment to US is quick - about a week or so. Once I even got my parcel in 3 days.
The another reputable web site is http://www.aromantic.co.uk/ - i'm finding prices quite attractive. Plus, it's in English. I didn't order to US from them yet, but probably, I'll do.
Both of them also sell good quality carrier oils and all kinds of bottles for oil based mixes and mist sprays for water based mixes (like here http://www.aroma-zone.com/
You may need these types of containers
mist sprays
http://www.aromantic.co.uk/
bottles for oil mixtures
bottles for oil mixtures
http://www.aromantic.co.uk/
with pipettes
or dropper caps
And, recently I've found supplier from India with good assortment and prices. Prices are so good, that I will try them for sure (bulk volumes are good for soapmaking!). http://essentialoilbulk.com/
I'm only planning to buy aroma diffusor, so not much to say yet.
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