Lavender has been a mainstay of the essential oil and perfumery cosmos for eons and its history can be observed back beyond the Kings of Egypt and the ancients of Historic Greece. Looking around the ledges of any high street storehouse it can be discovered in plenty - scenting talcs, soaps, shampoos, air freshners, and a hundred an one other wares. So this oil has a decisive spot on the shelves of any oil devotee or aromatherapy practician! The Oil Basics Lavender oil is an key oil found by distillment from the bloom spikes of certain species of lavender. Two strains are discovered, lavender flower oil, a colorless oil, insoluble in water, having a density of 0.885 g/mL; and lavender spike oil, a distillate from the herbaceous plant Lavandula latifolia, having density 0.905 g/mL. When buying Lavender prepare to ensure which you are receiving - Lavender Essential Oil or Lavender Spike Essential Oil - both are top-notch but loan themselves to more or less divers usage (See below) The Spike Oil has a slightly firmer perfume, with a top peppery note which is missing from the Lavender Flower Oil and loans itself more to the stimulating forces of the oil. Orthodox Aromatherapy Recommended Practices You only need to search along the shelves in Boots, Marks and Spencers and The Body Shop to see a host of suggested practices for the Lavender aroma, but traditionally it has been its stilling and relaxing, as well as its power to bring down stress and anxiety, characters which have been held as its foremost use. One or two drops on an oil burner can produce a quieting effect within a room. One or two drops on a tissue which is then placed under the pillow can aid a relaxing nights rest Put a couple of drops into the final launder or your laundry 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 relish an indulgant relaxing soak. A few drops on a cloth which is then put in your vaccuum bags will assist odourise 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!