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Oil – Lavender Essential Oil and Your Well Being

May 1, 2010 on 4:07 am | By admin | In Health and Fitness | Comments Off

 

Lavender has been a keystone of the essential oil and perfumery globe for aeons and its account can be traced back beyond the Kings of Egypt and the philosophers of Early Greece. 

Looking around the ledges of any high street shop it can be got in plenty – aromatizing talcs, soaps, shampoos, air freshners, and a million an one alternative wares. So this oil has a decisive position on the shelves of any oil devotee or aromatherapy practician! 

 

The Oil Basic Principles 

Lavender oil is an outstanding oil found by distillate from the bloom spikes 

of distinct species of lavender. Two forms are discovered, lavender flower oil, a colorless oil, 

insoluble in water, having a concentration of 0.885 g/mL; and lavender spike oil, a distillate from the herbaceous plant 

Lavandula latifolia, having denseness 0.905 g/mL. 

When buying Lavender check to determine which you are acquiring – Lavender Essential Oil or Lavender Spike Essential Oil – both are top-notch but loan themselves to slightly divers usage (See below) 

The Spike Oil has a somewhat hotter perfume, with a top hot note which is wanting from the Lavender Flower Oil and adds itself more to the stimulative effects of the oil. 

Orthodox 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 suggested usages for the Lavender aroma, but traditionally it has been its stilling and restful, as well as its power to trim tension and anxiety, 

qualities which have been held as its fullest use. 

One or two drops on an oil burner can produce a becalming effect within a room. 

One or two drops on a tissue paper which is then placed under the pillow can aid a reposeful nights nap 

Put a couple of drops into the final wash or your wash to give oyur wash a fresh natural and clean scent 

Put a couple of drops of the Lavender Oil into a carrier oil and intermingle. Then add a few drops to your bathwater and relish an indulgant restful soak. 

A few drops on a material which is then pointed in your vaccuum bags will assist odourise the room whils toyu do the housekeeping. 

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