Oil – Lavender Essential Oil and Its Benefits
Lavender has been a keystone of the essential oil and perfumery domain for eons and its chronicle can be observed back beyond the Royal Families of Egypt and the sages of Historic Greece.
Searching around the shelves of any high street store it can be noticed in plenty – aromatise talcs, soaps, shampoos, roomfreshners, and a million an one other wares. So this oil has a sure place on the shelves of any oil lover or aromatherapy practitioner!
Lavender oil is an essential oil acquired by distillment from the flower spikes
of certain species of lavender. Two strains are important, lavender flower oil, a colorless oil,
insoluble in water, having a density of 0.885 g/mL; and lavender spike oil, a distillate from the herbaceous plant
Lavandula latifolia, having concentration 0.905 g/mL.
When purchasing Lavender watch to see which you are acquiring – Lavender Essential Oil or Lavender Spike Essential Oil – both are superior but bestow themselves to more or less distinct usage (See below)
The Spike Oil has a somewhat hotter bouquet, with a top peppery note which is lacking from the Lavender Flower Oil and imparts itself more to the stimulant effects of the oil.
Traditional Aromatherapy Advocated Functions
You only need to search along the shelves in Boots, Marks and Spencers and The Body Shop to see a host of proposed usages for the Lavender fragrance, but traditionally it has been its quieting and relaxing, as well as its power to cut tension and anxiousness,
characters which have been held as its optimal use.
One or two drops on an oil burner can make a quieting effect within a room.
One or two drops on a tissue paper which is then laid under the pillow can aid a restful nights rest
Put a couple of drops into the final wash or your laundry to give oyur laundry a clean natural and clean scent
Put a couple of drops of the Lavender Oil into a carrier oil and mix. Then add a few drops to your bathwater and relish an indulgant restful soak.
A few drops on a textile which is then located in your vaccuum bags will serve odorize the room whils toyu do the housekeeping.
When learning add four or five drops to an oil burner to stimulate and refreshen the mind and increase vigilance!
