Lavender Essential Oil
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Description
Lavender Essential Oil has a clean floral-herbal aroma with pale sweetness, green stem, dry flower, and a soft familiar finish. It is one of those oils customers recognise quickly, which makes the writing around it easy to overinflate. Its real strength is simpler: it makes a product feel softer, quieter, and less sharp.
The first impression is fresh, floral, and herbaceous. Later, the scent becomes drier and more powdery-stemmed, leaving a lavender trace that works well in soaps, creams, lotions, bath products, body oils, diffusers, linen sprays, natural perfumes, and gentle botanical blends.
Lavender is useful because it blends easily, especially with citrus, chamomile, clary sage, cedarwood, frankincense, geranium, and rosemary. Used heavily, it can become dull, soapy, powdery, or too familiar.
Essential oils can be applied topically once diluted with a carrier oil. They are widely used in cosmetic goods and handmade crafts.
Details
| Botanical Name | Lavandula officinalis |
| Origin | Balkan states and Southern Europe |
| Family | Lamiaceae |
| Plant Part | Flower Head |
| Extraction | Steam Distillation |
| Note | Top |
| Colour | Colourless |
| Consistency | Thin |
| Scent | Floral, herbaceous, fresh with balsamic woody undertone. |
| Blends With | Citrus, floral, spicy and woodsy oils. |
| Group | Floral |
Cautions
Never use pure oils on the skin without diluting, never use internally, keep away from children and eyes, always check if there are any medical issues which could cause a problem. Seek help if you have any doubts.
