Your Essential Oils – Lavender
Lavender has been a lynchpin of the essential oil and perfumery globe for aeons and its history can be followed back beyond the Kings of Egypt and the philosophers of Ancient Greece.
Looking around the ledges of any high street shop it can be encountered in plenty – perfuming talcs, soaps, shampoos, air freshners, and a hundred an one alternative wares. So this oil has a indisputable station on the shelves of whatever oil fan or aromatherapy practician!
The Oil Fundamental Principle
Lavender oil is an main oil obtained by distillate from the flower spikes
of distinct species of lavender. Two sorts are recognized, lavender flower oil, a clear oil,
insoluble in water, having a density of 0.885 g/mL; and lavender spike oil, a distillation from the herbaceous plant
Lavandula latifolia, having denseness 0.905 g/mL.
When buying Lavender watch to discover which you are receiving – Lavender Essential Oil or Lavender Spike Essential Oil – both are outstanding but bestow themselves to slightly different usage (See below)
The Spike Oil has a slightly stronger aroma, with a top peppery note which is absent from the Lavender Flower Oil and adds itself more to the stimulating essences of the oil.
Handed-down Aromatherapy Recommended Usages
You only need to search on the shelves in Boots, Marks and Spencers and The Body Shop to see a wealth of proposed uses for the Lavender fragrance, but traditionally it has been its tranquilizing and restful, as well as its power to cut back stress and anxiety,
qualities which have been held as its optimum use.
One or two drops on an oil burner can create a calming effect within a room.
One or two drops on a tissue paper which is then positioned under the pillow can aid a slumberous nights rest
Put a couple of drops into the final launder or your washing to give oyur wash a fresh 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 savour an indulgant restful soak.
A few drops on a material which is then pointed in your vaccuum bags will help odourise the room whils toyu do the housework.
When examining add four or five drops to an oil burner to stimulate and refresh the mind and increase watchfulness!
