What Are the Benefits of Lavender?

Lavender is a beautiful herb that is related to the mint family. It makes sense, doesn’t it, as both these plants have potent fragrances. Lavender is easy to grow and used both fresh or dried to create fragrant sachets, lotions, soaps, teas, flavourings, medicines, essential oils, and other products. Join us this week, fragrance lover, as we explore all the benefits of lovely lavender.

You could purchase stunning Lavender Sachets from our Fresh Scents range and infuse this gorgeous scent throughout your home. Relax and rejuvenate with the soft peaceful scent of lavender, a floral, sweet, and herbaceous fragrance that’s great for reducing everyday stress. Way back when, in the Old World, lavender was valued for its intense perfume and healing properties. The name of lavender comes from the Latin word for washing, lavare. Ancient Romans used lavender as a soothing fragrance when bathing as well as to wash and perfume their clothes. Lavender essential oil was described as a sedative against headaches and toothaches, and as early as 1608, the soothing effect of lavender oil was used to calm excited children!!

Today, however, you can use your newly acquired Lavender Sachets in many different ways and keep everyone in the home cool, calm and collected. Place a scented sachet on your bedside table and fall asleep with the relaxing fragrance.  Create a bedtime routine with Lavender by tucking a scented sachet in with your pj’s or gown, and for sweet-smelling dreams, tuck a sachet in your duvet cover.  Destress at your desk by shaking your scented sachet for a calming fragrance in your workspace. There are 101 other ways to sachet, and we’re sure you will find your own creative style to use them in your home.

The original home of lavender is the Mediterranean region, where the sun shines brightly, and winters are mild and dry. Breathtaking photos of rows and rows of lavender in flower have been published widely, and the unique shade of the flower has given the name lavender to the colour.

Without sunshine, there is no lavender. Hello Sunshine is another gorgeous fragrance from Fresh Scents, which you can sachet around your home or workplace. Better still, get creative with gifting this vibrant tropically scented sachet to friends, work colleagues, children’s school teachers, next-door neighbours, Aunty Mary, your hairdresser and anyone else you want to spoil over the festive season. Affordable and lovely.

It’s the season for giving, and one of the best gifts ever is a Sweet Grace Flower Diffuser from Bridgewater. Enjoy the fragrance of Sweet Grace and the beauty of the flower as it turns pink and blooms month after month. There are more gorgeous gifts in this collection that will take the hard work out of knowing what to wrap up for family and friends for Christmas. Consider a Bar Soap softly fragranced with our beloved Sweet Grace scent. Our rich and indulgent Bar Soap is triple-milled and pure vegetable based. The formulation yields a velvety lather and a refreshing cleanse for truly pampered skin. The bar is stamped with Bridgewater’s logo and presented in a stylish patterned box. Pop it in the shopping basket as you look at further options with the Sweet Grace fragrance.  A Bridgewater Large Candle Jar lasts for an astonishing 145 hours, and a Small Candle Jar will give up to 70 hours of burn time and fragrance. Looking for stocking fillers?  Look no further, as a Sweet Grace Autovent Clip or Hand Cream are ideal options.

Grace Collection is looking forward to sharing ideas for gifting over Christmas in future blogs. In the meantime, enjoy browsing through our website or visiting our many distributors for festive fragrances.