Lavender Essential Oil    Lavender Essential Oil

        (Eastern European)




Lavender Essential Oil Profile: Lavender plants are native to the Mediterranean, where it grows in open fields on mountainous slopes providing for a beautiful and fragrant landscape. The finest lavender is distilled from lavandula officinalis which grows at altitudes above 3,000 feet and is particularly resistant to heat and cold. The buds are harvested when the oil content is highest at mid-day.

Common Name: Lavender Essential Oil
Botanical Name: lavandula officinalis
Country of Origin: France & Spain
Parts Used: flowering tops
Extraction: steam distillation
Aroma: floral, fresh, light, sweet
Physical Uses: Lavender essential oil is a powerful antiseptic containing more than 200 compounds which are active against fungi, viruses, and bacteria. Lavender makes a great natural cleansing agent. It is also invaluable for the treatment of inflammatory conditions and pain. It brings fast relief for various skin irritations, such as first degree burns.

Aromatic Uses: The light floral accent of lavender aromatherapy oil balances emotions and restores vitality in people suffering from nervous exhaustion and has a calming effect on people who are agitated or have trouble sleeping.
  • Enhances: calmness, balance, healing, comfort, openness, acceptance, relaxation, spirituality, resolving of conflict, strengthening, and decision-making
  • Reduces: depression, stress, painful menstruation, insomnia, nervous tension, migraines, emotional in-balance, fear, hysteria, frustration, shock, panic, over-sensitivity and acts as a bug repellent
Metaphysical Uses: balances chakras, business success, celibacy, conscious mind (stimulates), happiness, maintains health, love, peace, protection, purification, sleep, third-eye chakra

Complementary Blending Oils for Lavender: allspice, amyris, basil, carrot, cedarwood, chamomile, cistus, clary sage, clove, cypress, dill, eucalyptus, fennel, frankincense, geranium, grapefruit, hyssop, juniper, lemon, lemongrass, lime, mandarin, marjoram, myrrh, neroli, orange, patchouli, pepper, peppermint, petitgrain, pine, ravensara, rosemary, spearmint, spikenard, tangerine, tea tree, thyme, tonka, verbena, vetiver, wintergreen, yarrow

Safety Warnings: Avoid during first trimester of pregnancy or if history of low blood pressure. Overuse can cause headaches. Do not confuse with lavender spike. Dilute to at least 0.5% before using on children.

Lavender Essential Oil Recipes:
  • Air Purifier: Mix 4 drops Lavender Essential Oil, 2 drops of Bergamot Essential Oil and 2 drops Lemon Essential Oil in a saucepan with 2 cups of pure distilled water. Simmer over the stove where the aroma will fill the house. The fresh scent has a powerful cleansing affect, in addition it will also uplift the mind, body and spirit.
  • Rejuvenating Bath: Mix 3 drops of Lavender Essential Oil and 3 drops of Lime Essential Oil in a warm bath and soak for 30 minutes. The blend will encourage circulation and encourage toxins to be eliminated.
  • Pure Relaxation Bath: Mix 5 drops of Lavender Essential Oil with 1 cup of heavy cream or 1 teaspoon of honey to a warm bath. The added cream or honey will enhance the aroma of the lavender and blend the oil with the bath water fully. The total emulsion will make you feel wrapped up in lavender for deep, pure relaxation.
  • Relax Anywhere, Anytime: Add a few drops of Lavender Essential Oil to the washer’s final rinse cycle or alternatively place a few drops of Lavender Essential Oil on a cloth and tumble dry with the freshly laundered clothes. It will give them a fresh scent and provide you a light aroma of lavender when you wear them, giving you the feeling of calmness all day.
These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any diseases.