The Scentual Life: The many faces of lavender pt. 3
- by Debra McDuffee (RSS feed) on Mar 3rd 2008 3:00PM
- Filed under Scentual Life
Lavender: Smooth and Dreamy
It already has that powdery quality to it. Now, add some special oils to your lavender and make it smoother, dreamier, almost good enough to eat.
3 parts lavender
1 part vanilla infusion
Add just a titch of vetiver and ylang ylang to this for balanced blend perfection.
3 parts lavender
1 part pink grapefruit
1 part vanilla infusion
Now, for the titch . . . jasmine. Yes, that's right, just a drop or two, don't over do it, and you'll have the magic.
Lavender: Earthy and Deep
You know you love the dirty stank of patchouli, when you blend it just right. So why not try:
4 parts lavender
1 part patchouli
Leave this one alone! Oh OK, add a little jasmine, you'll see!
4 parts lavender
1 part vetiver
Smooth this one with a titch of vanilla infusion, or maybe enhance with cinnamon.
In The Fragrant Mind, Valerie Worwood refers to lavender as "the mother, or grandmother of essential oils" and states that it is "harmonious, calming, healing, caring, compassionate and embracing."
Gabriel Mojay, in Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit, tells us that in 1660, Richard Surflet writes that distilled lavender "healeth the swoonings and disease of the heart."
Lavender is all of those things, but so much more.
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5-21-2008 @ 4:46AM
Andy said...
Just today I was soldering a device and burned my finger which without lavender, would have been tearfully painful. However, as I am practiced in aromatherapy, I had a 16oz bottle of organic lavender Bulgarian in my fridge.
I quickly used a moderate amount of the oil and doused my finger. As the pain was getting more intense, the dousing of the oils slowed the pain, and very shortly after started relieving the pain.
Without the lavender I would still be in pain, 5 hours later - you know if you have ever used a soldering iron.
Lavender was first discovered to quickly relieve burn pains and increase healing time with less scarring by a scientist working with his equipment. He burnt himself in the highest degree.
He thought it was a bucket of water he doused his hand in, but instead it was filled with lavender essential oil.
What would have deformed the look of his hand with hospitalization, he found the pain was not of what it should have been, and later found that their was no scaring on his hand after it healed. This lead into the area of research for lavender essential oil.
I often Blog about aromatherapy, you can find my posts here if you have any interest in biological uses, as I do myself:
http://myspew.com/aromatherapy
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