The Herb Lover's Spa Book: Create a Luxury Spa Experience at Home with Fragrant Herbs from Your Garden

By Sue Goetz

In her new book, herb gardener, spa enthusiast and award-winning garden designer Sue Goetz shows us how to create the luxury spa experience in our own home, featuring fragrant, therapeutic herbs from the garden. With lavish photos throughout, The Herb Lover’s Spa Book gives the reader simple steps for growing and preparing herbs for the home spa… aromatherapy oils, lotions, tub teas, masks, scrubs, sachets, travel bath mixes, and more. It has never been easier to enjoy the spa ambiance and let the stress of the day melt away.

• Language: English
• Publisher: St. Lynn's Press
• Release date: Jun 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781943366163

Book preview

PART ONE

SURROUND

Every person has their thing

that helps them relax,

feel cared for and nurtured.

Ask five people what calms them and you will get five different answers. Our complex brain and sensory functions receive outside influence differently. For example, some of us like to have our feet rubbed, while others find it uncomfortable. The same can be said for types of body massage. And when it comes to the power of fragrance, a sense of smell can be so strong that it brings on a headache; yet others of us can hardly recognize the odor of a rose right under our nose. Describe what basil smells like – is it clove-like and warming or reminiscent of tomato sauce poured over pasta? It is all stored in our memory by way of individual experiences. Within those experiences we can also outline what it takes to bring personal relaxation. The creation of your spa experience – the actual space, the sensory stimuli, the mood makers – starts when you truly consider and define what is indulgent and comforting for