Central Coast Lavender would like to share natures gifts with our Healing Lavender Essential Oil in the following ways...

In Bath: Excellent for aching muscles, relaxation, and stress relief. Add 6-8 drops of pure Lavender Essential Oil after running the water and vigorously agitate water. Adding the drops to a capful of milk or Epsom salts and then putting in the bath helps to disperse the oils through out the water. This is a great way to receive the benefits of Lavender Oil. Lie back, relax, and enjoy!

In Shower: After washing your hair, add a few drops of Lavender Essential Oil to a capful of water and gently pour onto your head. Stand there for a few seconds then dip your head under running water and allow oils to rinse off. Cup your hands over your face and breathe in the relaxing aroma. Lavender oil can also be added (a few drops) to your shampoo and cleanse your hair as normal.

Room Diffuser: Fill the top dish of an 'essential oil diffuser' or a 'vaporizer' with water and add 6-8 drops of Lavender Essential Oil. Place a lit tea light candle in the space provided underneath the dish. This is a very good way to receive the benefits of the oil. Use in your favorite room. Vaporization is especially good to use when you have a cold or are feeling under the weather. Keep burner away from draughts and open windows. Hint: use warm water in the dish for quicker results.

Massage: This is a particularly effective way to apply the Lavender Essential Oils when you have tight and sore muscles, under stress, or have sustained an injury. The oils will be absorbed quickly into the blood stream, thus assisting the body and mind.

Tissue or Handkerchief: Great for an immediate relief from the flu, sinusitis, or those moments of sudden anxiety. Add a few drops of Lavender Essential Oil and breathe deeply immediately.

As a Compress: In a bowl of warm water add 6-10 drops Lavender Essential Oil and swirl around. Soak a cloth in the water, then gently squeeze out enough water so that it will not drip and apply to the area you wish to treat. Use cold water for treating new muscular injuries or sprains so not to induce swelling.

Tired Hands/Feet: Add 6-10 drops Lavender Essential Oil to warm water and soak your fatigued hands or feet for 10 minutes.
Lavender is a plant rich in history and myth. With its roots in the ancient herbalists,lavender's properties as a disinfectant and antiseptic were founded. Its healing qualities grew through the centuries, even gaining the reputation of warding off the plague. Lavender's popularity with the English royalty gave it a berth in the ranks of a cosmetic herb, and it was with Queen Victoria that lavender was recognized as a tonic for nerves.

Lavender is cultivated all over the world: Bulgaria, England, United States and France are historically known for producingthe essential oil. Harvesting the lavender for oil must be done at the peak of the day's heat. Essential oil is extracted by steam distillation from the fresh flowering tops.

Lavender is considered the premier of all perfume. 'Perfume' derives itsname from the Greek meaning 'through smoke,' and in ancient times the perfumeswere used as fumigatory agents. Lavendula angustifolia/officinalis grows at altitudes reaching the height of 5,000 feet.

The officinalis, known as 'vera' affords a much smaller plant and the harvesting is more laborious. In a field ripe for harvest the plants resemble fattened velveteen porcupines with hues ranging from brilliant whites to shadings of violet and purple.

Properties of Lavender.
It is antibacterial, anti convulsive, antidepressant, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti rheumatic, antispasmodic, antitoxic, antiviral, anticoagulant, carminative, cholagogue, cicatrisant, cordial, cytophylactic, deodorant, decongestant, diuretic, emmenagogue, galactogogue, hypotenuse, insecticide, nerving, parasitical, rubefacient, restorative, sedative, sudorific, tonic, febrifugal, and vulnerary.

Common Uses
Ideal for physical and emotional support. Lavender as a whole is an 'adaptation' essence with a relationship to all Body Systems. It is nicknamed the ultimate 'first aid in a bottle' oil. Lavender produces an Anti-Allergic Essential oil, with an inherent antibiotic action. It is also an astringent as well as moisturize to skin. It alleviates aches, pains, and swelling from arthritis to injury to headache. Lavender also alleviates motion sickness. Emotionally, lavender helps support a calm composure and self-expression. It reduces irritability, insomnia, nightmares, apprehension, panic attacks combined with uncontrollable shaking, stress, nervous tension, hysteria and is generally balancing to the psyche, as well as the body.

Internal Possibilities
Research is proving that lavender is beneficial with regard to support for hyperglycemia, hypertension, indigestion, arteriosclerosis, digestive complaints,kidney stones, fragile capillaries, anemia, and heartburn. It is non-toxic, non-irritant, non-sensitizing.

Lavender Aromatherapy
Being able to breathe in instant calm and relaxation from this fantastic plant is truly one of nature’s wonderful gifts. Lavender's calming, relaxing, stress relieving, and healing properties have become very popular around the world today for good reason, with the hectic lives many of us have come to lead. Why is lavender aromatherapy so popular today?

It is considered by many to be a natural, alternative remedy for a variety of common ailments ranging from anxiety, headaches, to insomnia. It has been shown in many research studies that lavender can ease stress, induce relaxation, refresh, and even invigorate.

For the skin, lavender oil is often used to treat fungal infections, sooth wounds and sunburn, even insect bites.  It's no wonder it is so widely used in today's skin creams, bath products, hair products and perfumes. Lavender is the ultimate, multi-purpose flower herb. You can even cook with it!


Not only is Lavender a beautiful and hardy plant to grow in the garden and use throughout your landscape, there are so many uses for this fragrant flowering shrub! The beautiful plant grows wild in France, Italy, Corsica, and Yugoslavia. Today, Lavender is grown and harvested throughout the world. The use of lavender for healing can be traced back to the Egyptians, Greeks and the Romans of ancient times. The Romans regularly scented their bath water with lavender, in fact the Latin name Lavare means "to wash." In England lavender is widely used lavender to scent drawers and clothing and as a natural insect repellent. Moths and fleas do not like lavender!

Aromatherapy, simply stated, is the practice of using herbs, flowers, and essential oils extracted from them for healing, relaxing, and balancing the mind, spirit and body. Smell is one of our most powerful senses. What we smell can have a profound impact on how we feel.

Lavender essential oil is extracted from the plant through steam distillation. The flowers are steamed, releasing the fragrant oils. Some common uses for lavender essential oil are:

-To scent bath water, add a few drops to bath to enjoy the relaxing and soothing aromas of this wonderful flower, and delicately scent the skin.

-To soothe skin irritations such as sunburn, insect bites, eczema, minor cuts and scrapes, even for athletes foot. Pure lavender essential oil is one of the few essential oils that can be applied undiluted directly to the skin a few drops at a time to soothe the skin and promote healing. (while there are no noted side effects to lavender oil, it is possible some people may have an allergic reaction to lavender oil.)

-To ease headache and tension, apply a few drops to your temples and rest quietly. Lavender eye pillows are also helpful for this purpose.

Lavender is commonly prescribed by aroma therapists to help reduce stress, anxiety, insomnia and mild depression. It is often referred to as a mood balancing herb that possesses a sedative and calming effect. It can also have an uplifting, refreshing and rejuvenating effect on the psyche. Lavender pillows, eye pillows, bath salts and floral waters are a wonderfully easy way to enjoy the soothing effects of lavender aromatherapy. All you have to do is relax, breathe in the scent, and enjoy!

Lavender sachets will fill your drawers and closets with a fresh clean fragrance, (and repel moths at the same time!) Use lavender as a natural air freshener.  Walk into your house after a long, hard day and smell the fresh bowl of dried lavender buds on your coffee table. Kick off your shoes, sit back and place a lavender eye pillow over your eyes. Pamper yourself by sleeping with a lavender filled pillow.

Our goal is to help you do just that-pamper yourself with this wonderful gift from nature.

It is recommended that people using medications such as tranquilizers and pain killers use caution with lavender to avoid extreme drowsiness. It has also been cautioned by some that pregnant women, and cancer patients should not use lavender. However, newer studies on lavender aromatherapy indicate that lavender can be soothing and helpful to some cancer patients, and can relieve stress. There is a great need for more research on the subject. In the meantime we can only use our own personal judgment.