Lavender Oil 5 ml

Lavender is a fragrant, shrub-like plant that blooms in blue, purplish, or dark red colors. Lavender oil is an essential oil obtained from the flowers of the lavender plant.

Extraction Method: Distillation

Usage Areas

Internal: Suitable for internal use. It is recommended to take 1-2 drops of oil dropped into water.

External:

• When used with carrier oils and applied via massage on dry and cracked skin, it may help moisturize the area.
• In hair care; it can be preferred to provide relaxation on dandruff-prone hair and scalp.

What is Oil?

Organic substances containing a high amount of carbon and hydrogen, which do not mix with water but can easily mix with other oils.

Volatility and Stability in Oils

Carrier Oil

• Liquid products usually obtained from the fruits and seeds of plants.
• They are odorless. Used as a carrier for essential oils. Obtained by pressing, extraction, and maceration methods. Carrier oils are used alone. Depending on the properties of the oils, they are used internally and externally. Being a carrier oil, it leaves a stain when dropped.

Essential Oil

• Essential oil is a natural product obtained from the leaf, fruit, bark, or root parts of plants, liquid at room temperature, usually colorless or light yellow, volatile, and strongly fragrant.
• They have their own characteristic scents. Obtained by water/steam distillation method. Essential oils are not used alone. They should be diluted with carrier oils in specific ratios. Except for exceptions, they are not used internally. Being volatile, it does not leave a stain where dropped.

Oil Extraction Methods

Cold Pressing

The process of crushing the usually seed parts of plants rich in carrier oil with a press to extract their oil. In the cold press method, since the beneficial and valuable contents in the oil are not lost, the quality of the produced oil is high.

Steam Distillation

The process done with steam distillation; placing plants, fresh or dry, into a container with a separate basket inside, boiling the water below, passing it as steam through the plants, and then cooling this steam again to separate the essential oil and the water carrying the beneficial properties of the distilled plant residue, known as hydrosol (flower water).

Maceration

Maceration is oily mixtures prepared by letting herbal drugs, after being broken down, sit in a carrier oil for a period. It is a method of separating natural plant components that pass into the carrier oil.