Make Your Own Lavender Water

Lavender is a remedy for many health problems and it's one of my favorite plants. You can easily make your own lavender water and use it in many ways. Please note that lavender floral water can not be used in cooking.

Boil 250 ml water for 5-10 minutes, Add 2 teaspoon of dried lavender flowers, add 20 drops of essential oils. Mix well. Filter water into a large ceramic bowl. Wait until cool then pour it in a jar and close tightly. Keep it refrigerated for later use.

Chilled lavender flower water can be use as a skin freshener. Spritz the face with it and make sure to keep your eyes closed. Shake well before use.

Read on to see many more ways you can benefit from lavender and lavender water:

Aching Muscles
If you’ve spent a back breaking afternoon in the garden, jump into a lavender bath to soothe your aches & pains. Apply epsom salts & a few drops of lavender oil to the bath and soak away the tension.
Acne
Lavender is one of the most valuable oils for the treatment of acne, according to aromatherapists. “It inhibits the bacteria that cause the skin infection, helps to rebalance the over secretion of sebum, which the bacteria thrive on, and reduce scarring”. Add a few drops of lavender oil to plain cream sold at health food stores or pharmacies and use as a moisturizer or cleanser.
Bugs & Bacteria
French laboratory studies in the early 20th century showed that lavender is a powerful antibacterial in dilutions of 5 per cent or less. It is lethal to bacteria that cause typhoid, TB & diphtheria combined with lemon balm, for its clinically tested anti-viral properties.
Burns (minor)
After you have cooled the area by immersing it in running cold water for 5 minutes, gently stroke on lavender oil. Pain relief is almost immediate, and burn usually heals without scarring.
Cuts & Wounds
Apply lavender oil to sooth pain, prevent bacterial infection and aid scar-free healing.
Earache
Warm a bottle of lavender oil in hot water for a minute or two, then gently massage a few drops into the skin around the ears and throat. For babies & small children, add 2-3 drops of the warmed oil to a little olive oil and massage in the same way.
Eczema
Stroke infused lavender oil (a few drops of lavender oil & carrier oil) into dry, itchy skin. Small children will find this especially comforting. You can also add a few drops of lavender oil to calamine lotion, shake before use.
Fatigue
Add 5 drops of lavender oil to a hot foot bath and relax while your feet soak. The soles of the feet are particularly porous, so lavender reaches your bloodstream very quickly, exerting it's stimulating and soothing effects on various systems of your body.
Fevers
For babies or small children, sponge them down very gently with tepid water to which you have added a drop of lavender oil. Take care not to let them get chilled. This works for adults too.
Giddy Spells, Faintness or Palpitations
Make your own smelling salts with sea salt, lavender oil, peppermint oil & basil oil.
Headache
The distilled water of lavender (Hydrosol) mist around your head is refreshing and soothing. Alternatively, make a compress of a piece of muslin soaked in icy cold water then sprinkled with a few drops of lavender oil and apply to the forehead, or massage a few drops into the forehead, temples and nape of the neck.
Insomnia
In a number of small studies, elderly psychiatric patients have been shown to sleep better and be more alert during the day when their sleep medication is replaced with lavender oil either dropped on their pillows, or placed in a diffuser on the ward. To help to induce sleep, put 3 or 4 drops of lavender oil on your pillow. For babies, add 1 drop of lavender oil & geranium oil in carrier oil and massage into a babies back or a few drops in their bedtime bath.
Long-Haul Travel
Combine lavender, rosemary, neroli, frankincense & sage, into your hand luggage and roll it over your pulse points to help you keep a clear head during those endless hours in the air.
Menstrual Cramps
Massage a few drops of lavender oil into your lower abdomen or apply a hot compress onto the area, which a little lavender oil has been sprinkled.
Scabie
This infestation by a tiny mite burrowing into your skin causes intense itching. Rub the whole body with lavender oil, then following every day until better with a mixture of lavender oil and alcohol. Change and wash bedding and clothes and sprinkle lavender oil on the mattress.
Shingles
Combine a mix of lavender oil with analgesic, antiviral & scar preventing essential oils or on compresses to the agonizing lesions of shingles. It usually produces a cure within 5-8 days.
Sinusitis
Lavender is one of several essential oils that aromatherapists recommend for inhalations to relieve sinusitis, add two drops of lavender & thyme oil to a bowl of near-steaming water and inhale slowly and deeply, with a towel over your head & bowl.
Stress & Anxiety
Keep a spritzer of lavender mist handy to spray on your face during the day, or apply lavender oil to your temples.
Sunburn
Spray pure lavender mist directly onto the skin or add 8 drops of lavender oil and 4 drops of peppermint oil to a teaspoon of jojoba oil. Pour it into a cool-to-lukewarm bath and soak for 10 minutes.