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Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia
An evergreen woody shrub, up to 1 metre tall, with pale green, narrow, linear leaves and flowers on blunt spikes of a beautiful violet-blue colour. The whole plant is highly aromatic.
Featured
Lavender
An evergreen woody shrub, up to 1 metre tall, with pale green, narrow, linear leaves and flowers on blunt spikes of a beautiful violet-blue colour. The whole plant is highly aromatic.
Summer
Wellness Benefits
Harnessing the botanical power of Lavandula for physical and mental restoration.
Calms the Mind & Promotes Restful Sleep
Traditionally used to reduce stress, nervous tension, anxiety, headaches, migraines, and insomnia. Its naturally calming aroma helps promote relaxation, emotional balance, and restful sleep.
Supports Healthy Skin
Renowned for its soothing antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties, lavender helps calm acne, eczema, dermatitis, sunburn, insect bites, minor burns, cuts, bruises, and other skin irritations while promoting natural skin repair.
Relieves Muscle & Joint aches
Its analgesic and antispasmodic properties help ease muscular aches, rheumatism, sprains, lumbago, sciatica, cramps, and general muscle tension, making it a popular choice for massage oils.
Supports Respiratory & Immune Health
Traditionally used to help relieve coughs, bronchitis, asthma, throat infections, catarrh, and the symptoms of colds and flu while supporting the body's natural immune defences.
Aids Healthy Digestion
Helps soothe abdominal cramps, indigestion, bloating, flatulence, colic, and nausea while supporting healthy digestive function and overall digestive comfort.
Versatile Everyday Wellness
Often regarded as one of the most versatile essential oils in herbal medicine, lavender supports overall wellbeing through its antimicrobial, deodorising, and restorative properties. It is widely used in aromatherapy, skincare, perfumes, soaps, cosmetics, and as a natural flavouring in foods and beverages.
Botanical Uses
Tea
is a naturally calming herbal infusion traditionally enjoyed to promote relaxation, support restful sleep, soothe digestion, and encourage a sense of wellbeing.
Culinary
Lavender adds a delicate floral flavour and aroma to teas, desserts, biscuits, cakes, chocolates, syrups, jams, salads, and savoury dishes, and is also used to flavour beverages and herbal blends.
Essential Oil
Lavender Essential Oil (Lavandula angustifolia) is one of the most versatile essential oils, traditionally used in aromatherapy to promote relaxation, support healthy skin, ease muscular tension, and encourage overall physical and emotional wellbeing.
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Lavender oil (Lavandula Angustifolia)
- relaxing and calming, useful in insomnia
- antidepressant
- relieves coughs, colds and other respiratory conditions
- antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, bactericide, antiviral
- relieves headache, muscle and arthritic pain
- digestive, insect repellent
- useful in skin conditions such as acne, burns, wounds, insect bites etc.
