Lavender Essential Oil and How To Use It
Lavender has been a keystone of the essential oil and perfumery creation for aeons and its story can be retraced back beyond the Royal Families of Egypt and the ancients of Historic Greece. Searching around the shelves of any high street store it can be picked up in plenty - scenting talcs, soaps, shampoos, roomfreshners, and a hundred an one alternative wares. So this oil has a definite place on the shelves of any oil fan or aromatherapy practician! The Oil Basics Lavender oil is an essential oil found by distillment from the blossom spikes of certain species of lavender. Two forms are distinguished, lavender flower oil, a colorless oil, insoluble in water, having a denseness 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 determine to determine which you are receiving - Lavender Essential Oil or Lavender Spike Essential Oil - both are ace but loan themselves to more or less diverse usage (See below) The Spike Oil has a slightly firmer bouquet, with a top peppery note which is missing from the Lavender Flower Oil and bestows itself more to the stimulating essences of the oil. Traditional Aromatherapy Recommended Practices You only need to look along the shelves in Boots, Marks and Spencers and The Body Shop to see a host of proposed functions for the Lavender perfume, but traditionally it has been its quieting and relaxing, as well as its power to cut back tension and anxiety, characters which have been held as its widest 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 nap Put a couple of drops into the final rinse or your laundry to give oyur washing 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 savour an indulgant reposeful soak. A few drops on a fabric which is then pointed in your vaccuum bags will help scent the room whils toyu do the housework. When reading add four or five drops to an oil burner to stimulate and refresh the mind and increase alertness!