Wildcrafted Greek Lavender pure essential oil - 5 ml

Lavandula stoechas. Plantparts: Flowering tops. Collected: Babiolo, Vrisses, Kydonias. Steam-distilled.

Babis and Janina, the producers, report on Greek Lavender collection and distillation: "We collect L. stoechas in the end of April from abundant populations in the sub mountainous area of the Kydonias district of Western Crete during flowering. The flowering tops are hand cut, always leaving enough flowers for the bees. Collection of this plant is a deeply balancing experience for us, we look forwards to this collections every year.

Through the years, we usually have developed lasting relationships with our plant populations. We return each year, or every second year in some cases, and find everybody healthy and alive. Lavandula is an exception, its populations reincarnate more often.. sometimes we find a developing biotope, with small plants starting to appear everywhere.. then we remember the place, because many years later, we might come back... 

The plant material is dried and subsequently steam distilled. Distillation lasts approx. 4-5 hours and yields a fresh, slightly camphorous, strong scented oil quite different from other commercial lavender oils.".

Principle of action: Stimulating, sedative, relaxing (CNS), energising and cleaning.  

Properties: Powerful anti-infectious. Woundhealing. First aid for insect bites or stings. Analgesic. Antispasmodic (digestive system). 

Uses: In Crete, L. stoechas is traditionally used in cases of chronic bronchitis, sinusitis, colds and coughs (mucolytic), as well as for otitis. Though the oil of L. stoechas today is little used in commercial perfumery, because it is less flowery and sweet than the scent of true Lavender, Lavandula vera, since antiquity and even nowadays in Algeria and Greece it is used traditionally as an ingredient in soaps and body-care products. Its scent calms the nerves and it is said, that it counteracts negative thoughts and feelings. We find, that many people, and especially men, prefer the scent of Lavandula stoechas over the sweeter scent of true lavender, as it is more fresh, clear and invigorating as well as calming. Lavandula stoechas has sedative, relaxing , antispasmodic and anticonvulsant effects. It can be used in cases of constipation, diarrhea with spasms and convulsions, diluted 3:100 in a carrier oil and massaged clockwise into the abdomen. 

Lavandula stoechas,  is an excellent refreshing disinfectant in the house. You can add a few drops when washing floors, cupboards or kitchen surfaces, a drop or two to the washing powder when washing clothes by hand or in the washing machine..place a cotton ball with a few drops between your linen. 
Lavandula stoechas is an excellent 'first aid' oil, in which cases it can be applied undiluted. A drop of the oil applied to bee or wasp stings, burned skin or smaller wounds immediately eases the pain, prevents swelling and scar formation substantially. The oil, diluted (5% in water, shaken and sprayed onto cleaning tissue), can be used to wash infected wounds and we have seen success even with difficult decubitus, pressure sores. In the latter case the washing should be accompanied by compresses. The wound-healing ability of Lavandula stoechas is so great, that one has to be careful treating very deep and infected wounds. Here one has to start with washings only, until the wound is completely free of infection, before starting treatment with compresses, as the oil can heal the top layers of the skin so quickly, that infection remaining in the depth of the wound might be enclosed.