Lavender Spike Essential Oil (Spain)
Product Name: Lavender Spike Essential Oil (Spain)
Botanic Name: Lavendula latifolia
Botanical Name: Lavandula latifolia
Extraction Method: Steam Distillation
Description: This plant occurs naturally in the Mediterranean region. A
perennial shrub, it usually grows to 30-100 cm tall and wide. The flowers are
pinkish-purple (lavender-colored), produced on spikes 2-3 cm long at the top of
slender leafless stems 10-30 cm long; each flower is subtended by a bract 4-8
mm long. At the top of the spike are a number of much larger, sterile bracts
(no flowers between them), 10-50 mm long and bright lavender purple (rarely
white).
Common Uses: Lavender Spike Essential Oil has similar medicinal
properties to common lavender (L. angustifolia). It yields more essential oil
than that species but therapeutically not considered as good. The flowers, and
the essential oil derived from them, are anti-asthmatic, antiseptic,
antispasmodic, digestive and expectorant. Externally, the essential oil is used
as an antiseptic wash for wounds, ulcers, sores etc and as a relaxing oil for
massage.
Aromatic Scent: Lavender Spike Essential Oil has a fresh,
floral-herbaceous odor.
