We source quality-assured Tasmanian, steam-distilled lavender essential oil. Oil from this lavender species, originally from Southern France, is world-renowned as the finest lavender oil because it contains less camphor, giving it a fresher herbal fragrance. While the use of lavender oil traces back 2500 years for medicinal and religious purposes, modern science confirms its wonders. It:
- Reduces anxiety and depression: its aroma has a calming, sedative, and anti-convulsive effect. It can also reduce headaches and irritability;
- Assists with insomnia: a study conducted at the University of Leicester in England showed that its use is just as effective in promoting sound sleep as medication;
- Heals scrapes, wounds and skin problems: it has very powerful antiseptic properties. It can increase cell growth in wounds, causing the wound to heal faster and decrease the appearance of scars. The oil’s anti-microbial action protects scrapes and wounds from infection, while allowing them to heal. It can be used to treat dry, itchy skin, acne, burns, eczema, sunburn, seborrhoea and skin inflammation;
- Alleviates women's health problems: in pregnancy, it can diminish the look of stretch marks and scars. It can relieve cramps, oedema, exhaustion, infection, breast abscesses, and post-natal depression. It can help relieve pre-menstrual syndrome and menstrual cramps. It is effective in aiding the treatment of chlamydia, pelvic inflammatory disease, thrush, vaginal infections, inflamed vaginal tissue, vaginitis, cystitis, Raynaud's Disease, and cervical cancer. If being treated with radiation for any form of cervical or uterine cancer, lavender oil may prevent and diminish irradiation burns.
The lavender essential oil in our classic skin care soap and lavender love tallow balm nurtures your skin and nervous system. And, we use Bridestowe 'home of the world's finest lavender oil' in our lavender lips lip balm. Relax!
