The warm sweet smell of Lavender has been a perennial favorite in many a garden for centuries; it has retained its popularity from long ago even to the present time. Gattefosse, was a modern day founder of the use of essential oils, he was the person who was responsible for verifying the healing and antiseptic uses of lavender. One day whilst at work, he badly burned his hand and with only lavender oil nearby, he plunged his hand into it and was amazed at how quickly the pain stopped, with little infection and scarring. Due to these findings, lavender became increasingly popular, especially because of its medicinal purposes. This article looks at some of the lavender natural beauty tips that have been used for centuries as a fragrance and as an ingredient for food recipes.
Lavender needs harvesting when ripe and the flowers are fully open, all the way up the spike, they should be pruned after flowering to ensure a healthy well shaped shrub. The correct way to harvest and dry lavender, is to gather the flower before it turns brown, this way you are ensuring you get the best of the aromatic oils, it is said that when the bees are busy, its a sign of harvest time, the saying actually goes, ‘that when there’s honey there is oil’.
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For perfume or pot pourri, the lavender should be spread on trays to dry, a good tip on making trays, is to stretch a piece of muslin across a children’s hoop and suspend this in a warm room with plenty of air, preferably an airing cupboard. A beautiful pot pourri is one that is blended with damask rose petals, for the ingredients add clove, orange flower, lavender blossom, jasmine and thyme altogether, once they have all dried place them in layers in a large bowl. Sprinkle salts in-between each layer, then sprinkle over sliced orrisroot and for the final touch, add three slices of dried orange with cloves and the pot pourri is then ready.
For centuries lavender has been used in cooking to make lavender sugar and flowers and also to make vinegar and wine. A lovely recipe is lavender shortbread; to make this use 500 grams of plain flour, add to these 500 grams of caster sugar and 240 grams of ground rice and 24o grams of caster sugar. Finally add two level teaspoons of lavender flowers and mix all the ingredients together, cut out and lay on the baking tray, baking for 35 minutes on a moderate oven.
Lavender has so many uses for natural beauty and due to its wonderful aroma it is a pleasure to use. It evokes feelings of country gardens and English perfume, when life was lived at a slower pace. It is good to see the revival of this pleasant smelling herb with its delicate soothing and restorative qualities.
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