Lavender Hydrosol - Organic

The superbly fresh, bright floral aroma of our organic Lavender Hydrosol is perfect for refreshing bed linens, room environments, nurseries, and in the car. Its cooling properties are a gift for summer skin, particularly when combined with our organic Blue Chamomile Hydrosol.

Packaging Note: Sizes 1 oz through 4 oz are packaged in glass bottles. Larger sizes (8 oz and up) are packaged in BPA free plastic bottles due to seasonal factors. Hydrosols can freeze and expand when temperatures drop which can result in bottle breakage. If you are experiencing extreme cold in your area, please contact us to ensure your shipment comes appropriately packaged.

As a facial refresher, Lavender Hydrosol brings the serenity and composure found in the purple waves of Lavender fields. Lavender Hydrosol may be used as a makeup remover, a topical wash, a toner, to cool overheated skin, and to moisten skin before application of facial oils. Botanical formulators find use for Lavender Hydrosol in body lotions, facial serums, after-shaves, creams, gels and other preparations. Its pH generally falls in the mid-range, making it appropriate for all skin types.

Our hydrosols are distilled using fresh plant material that not only allows capture of all the volatiles, but most importantly, the cellular water from the living plant. It is this cellular water, imbued with nourishing minerals and fatty acids, that make it dynamic and vibrant compared to using dried out material with a resulting loss of those important skin-refreshing and aromatic molecules.[1] Aromatic hydrosols contain the water-soluble active principles of the plant. They retain a tiny amount of essential oil compounds (about 0.2 grams/liter)[2] – mostly the gentler, more hydrophilic aromatic esters and alcohols (like lavandulyl acetate and linalool) – and are subsequently unlikely to cause skin irritation.[3]

The gentleness of hydrosols is ideally suited in the delivery of their attributes for children, the elderly, and those with pronounced sensitivities. They are also a profound and delightful way to experience and appreciate the life force – with all its potentiality for wholeness – found in the aromatic waters of the plants.

PLEASE NOTE: The hydrosols we offer are specifically distilled for the hydrosol, not as a co-product or even a by-product. The plant's cellular water and many components – normally lost under pressurized short steam runs for essential oil, or by using dried material – are what the producers specifically distill for by using only fresh plant material right from their farm or from local farms to ensure that the plant material is as fresh as possible.[4]