Lavender Essential Oil | Lavender Essential Oil Uses

Lavender oil is an important essential oil consisted of many healing properties. Lavender essential oil is extracted from various components of lavender such as flower, roots, leafs, and spike.

Lavender oil is insoluble in water and we can differentiate it in 2 types based on lavender components, lavender flower oil and lavender spike oil.

Lavender Flower Oil is insoluble in water, having a density of 0.88 g/ml, and rich in calories.

Lavender spike oil is pure which is extracted from lavandula latifolia, linalyl acetate, and linalool.

Bulgaria is the largest lavender oil producer in the world.  Jammu and Kashmir is prestigious and famous place for producing lavender in the foothills of Himalayas. It is being used in making perfumes and beauty products across the world.

Lavender Essential Oil Uses

As per various clinical studies it has been proven that lavender essential oil may be useful to alleviate sleep disorder, stress, and anxiety. Many stress medicines are being prepared by using it.

Aromatherapy with lavender oil is very popular among peoples to get rid of stress, depression, and to get relax from tension. In order to get relax, fill your bath tub with water and add 7-10 drops of it and enjoy your bath now. This is one of the greatest way to take full advantage of lavender oil.

Lavender essential oil is beneficial to heal wounds, eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis and all types of burns because of the cicatrizant properties of it. Use of it should be avoided in case of epilepsy, fever, and pregnancy.

Lavender oil is also known to recover and treat all respiratory system and related ailments like cough, cold, and congestion.

A list of its properties are here –

• Antiseptic
• antimicrobial
• Cicatrizant
• antibacterial
• Antidepressant
• detoxifying
• Expectorant
• Nervine
• hypotensive 
• Analgesic
• Vulnerary