Lavender Spike Essential Oil
Lavender Spike Essential Oil, Lavender Spike the stems, growing 1 or 2 feet high, are gray-green and angular, with flaking bark. The gray-green leaves are opposite, sessile, downy, and lanceolate to oblong-linear. The lilac-colored, tubular flowers are arranged in successive whorls up the stem. The fragrant oil to which the odor of lavender flowers is due, is a valuable article of commerce, much used in perfumery, and to a lesser extent in medicine. The fine aromatic smell is found in all parts of the shrub, but the essential oil is only produced from the flowers and flower-stalks. Besides being grown for the production of this oil, lavender is widely sold in the fresh state as 'bunched lavender,' and as 'dried lavender’, the flowers are used powdered, for sachet making and also for pot-pourri, etc., so that the plant is a considerable source of profit.
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| Botanical Name: | Lavandula latifolia L. |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Synonyms: | Lavender spica, aspic, broad-leaved lavender, lesser lavender |
| See Also: | Lavender Essential Oil
Lavender Spike Essential Oil
Lavandin Essential Oil |
| Parts Used: | Flowering tops |
| Extraction Method: | Water or steam distillation |
| Appearance: | Water white to pale yellow liquid |
| Aroma Description: | Sharp, penetrating, fresh, herbaceous, camphoraceous |
| Perfume note: | Top |
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| Blends well with: | Chamomile Roman, Eucalyptus globulus, ginger, other lavenders, lemon, rosewood, sandalwood. |
| Historical Uses: | Recommended since 'Culpeper's' times for 'pains in the head and brain which proceed from cold, apoplexy, falling sickness, the dropsy, or sluggish malady, cramps, convulsions, palsies and often faintings.' |
| Modern Uses: | The scent of Lavender will rejuvenate and inspire a tired person and relax, soothe and slow down someone who is stressed or tense. Much used as a fragrance in soaps, deodorants etc. Used in floreal, aromatic, cooling (eucalyptol-linalool note) flavours; in herbal-floral fragrance compounds for all purposes |
| Cautions: | Non toxic, non irritant, non sensitizing |
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