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Lavender has been a pillar of the essential oil and perfumery creation for eons and its account can be followed back beyond the Kings of Egypt and the ancients of Ancient Greece. Looking around the ledges of any high st shop it can be detected in plenty - aromatizing talcs, soaps, shampoos, roomfreshners, and a hundred an one alternative products. So this oil has a definite station on the shelves of any oil devotee or aromatherapy practician! The Oil Basics Lavender oil is an central oil obtained by distillment from the bloom spikes of distinct species of lavender. Two sorts are central, lavender flower oil, a colourless oil, insoluble in water, having a concentration of 0.885 g/mL; and lavender spike oil, a distillation from the herbaceous plant Lavandula latifolia, having concentration 0.905 g/mL. When buying Lavender learn to see which you are taking - Lavender Essential Oil or Lavender Spike Essential Oil - both are choice but loan themselves to somewhat different usage (See below) The Spike Oil has a slightly firmer aroma, with a top hot note which is absent from the Lavender Flower Oil and lends itself more to the stimulant essences of the oil. Orthodox Aromatherapy Advocated Practices You only need to search along the shelves in Boots, Marks and Spencers and The Body Shop to see a host of advised functions for the Lavender fragrance, but traditionally it has been its sedating and restful, as well as its ability to bring down tension and anxiety, tones which have been held as its widest use. One or two drops on an oil burner can make a quietening effect within a room. One or two drops on a tissue which is then positioned under the pillow can aid a relaxing nights rest Put a couple of drops into the final launder or your washing to give oyur wash a clean natural and clean scent Put a couple of drops of the Lavender Oil into a carrier oil and coalesce. Then add a few drops to your bathwater and savour an indulgant reposeful soak. A few drops on a textile which is then placed in your vaccuum bags will serve 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!