Lavender Essential Oil

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Botanical

Skin Benefit

Soft, clean scent anchor of Garden Blossom. Botanical without being sweet, precise and familiar.

Spiritual Benefit

Lavender in European bathing rituals for centuries, used in bath sachets and linen water.

The record

In use for 1,000+ years

Origin

Mediterranean lavender, concentrated through the still.

Harvested

Fresh flower spikes are steam-distilled within hours of cutting.

Cultural impact

Distillation perfected by medieval and Arab alchemists turned the wash-day flower into one of the first true essential oils, a staple of every apothecary since.

Traditional use

Drops worked into skin oils, baths, and balms, the gentlest of the strong scents.

From the Field Notes

All field notes