Sleep - Relaxation - Burns - Skin Irritations - Muscle Tension

Lavender - Lavandula angustifolia

Lavender oil has been used for thousands of years to help people with a wide range of health conditions such as soothing skin irritations, relaxation, and helping to ease muscle tension in the head and neck, it is also very good when used to help reduce inflamation.

  Lavender is an essential oil, the flowers are steam-distilled in fields where they are grown and the oil varies in color from dark yellow to a dark yellow-green color. French Lavender is considered to be better than English lavender because of it is richer in linalyl acetate.

 

Oil can be produced from both the flowers and the stalks, but the scent from the stalks are less potent than that from the flowers.

 

Lavender is best known for its unique healing properties for treating burns and generally is very good for most skins, it is very effective in reducing pain from severe skin burns and fast healing of the skin.