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Lavender Essential Oil And Its Health Benefits For Well Being

April 17, 2010 on 4:07 am | By admin | In Health and Fitness | Comments Off

 

Lavender has been a lynchpin of the essential oil and perfumery world for eons and its history can be retraced back beyond the Pharoahs of Egypt and the philosophers of Early Greece. 

Looking around the ledges of any high street shop it can be found out in plenty – aromatise talcs, soaps, shampoos, roomfreshners, and a million an one varying products. So this oil has a indisputable rank on the shelves of any oil lover or aromatherapy practitioner! 

 

The Oil Bedrocks 

Lavender oil is an main oil obtained by distillment from the blossom spikes 

of distinct species of lavender. Two sorts are important, lavender flower oil, a clear 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 buying Lavender discover to ensure which you are getting – Lavender Essential Oil or Lavender Spike Essential Oil – both are premium but lend themselves to more or less different usage (See below) 

The Spike Oil has a slightly stronger scent, with a top peppery note which is lacking from the Lavender Flower Oil and lends itself more to the stimulating forces of the oil. 

Handed-down Aromatherapy Recommended Usages 

You only need to look along the shelves in Boots, Marks and Spencers and The Body Shop to see a myriad of suggested practices for the Lavender perfume, but traditionally it has been its lulling and restful, as well as its ability to repress stress and anxiety, 

qualities which have been held as its optimum 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 reposeful nights rest 

Put a couple of drops into the final launder or your wash to give oyur laundry a sweet 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 enjoy an indulgant slumberous soak. 

A few drops on a textile which is then placed in your vaccuum bags will help odourise the room whils toyu do the housework. 

When analyzing add four or five drops to an oil burner to stimulate and refreshen the mind and increase alertness!