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Lavender Essential Oil
March 8th, 2010 by admin
Lavender has been a anchor of the essential oil and perfumery creation for eons and its story can be followed back beyond the Royal Families of Egypt and the philosophers of Historic Greece.
Searching around the shelves of any high street store it can be observed in plenty – aromatizing talcs, soaps, shampoos, air freshners, and a thousand an one alternative products. So this oil has a certain station on the shelves of any oil devotee or aromatherapy practitioner!
Lavender oil is an main oil obtained by distillment from the bloom spikes
of certain species of lavender. Two varieties are recognized, lavender flower oil, a neutral oil,
insoluble in water, having a denseness of 0.885 g/mL; and lavender spike oil, a distillate from the herb
Lavandula latifolia, having density 0.905 g/mL.
When buying Lavender mark to determine which you are obtaining – Lavender Essential Oil or Lavender Spike Essential Oil – both are superior but loan themselves to somewhat divers usage (See below)
The Spike Oil has a slightly sharper aroma, with a top peppery note which is wanting from the Lavender Flower Oil and imparts itself more to the stimulation effects of the oil.
Orthodox Aromatherapy Recommended Usages
You only need to search along the shelves in Boots, Marks and Spencers and The Body Shop to see a myriad of advised uses for the Lavender aroma, but traditionally it has been its sedating and relaxing, as well as its ability to repress stress and anxiety,
qualities which have been held up as its widest use.
One or two drops on an oil burner can produce a chilling out effect within a room.
One or two drops on a tissue paper which is then put under the pillow can aid a relaxing nights rest
Put a couple of drops into the final rinse or your rinse to give oyur laundry a sweet natural and clean scent
Put a couple of drops of the Lavender Oil into a carrier oil and combine. Then add a few drops to your bathwater and enjoy an indulgant slumbrous soak.
A few drops on a cloth which is then pointed in your vaccuum bags will help odorize the room whils toyu do the housework.
When analyzing add four or five drops to an oil burner to stimulate and refresh the mind and increase watchfulness!