Tag Archives: Producing Lavender Oil

29
Mar

Lavender Oil Producing Plants

“Lavender” is part of the broad botanical genus – Lavandula. This is thought to be made up of 50 different species, and within some of these species are perhaps hundreds of different cultivars/varieties. For the purposes of lavender oil we … Continue reading →

Published Date: 29th March 2013
 Category: General, Lavender Farm, Lavender Oil
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07
May

What is Lavender Oil made from? – Part 2

The earlier post – What is Lavender Oil Made From? – Part 1 - was about how lavender oil is often analysed using a process called gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy. The results of this shows that lavender oil is pretty complicated; … Continue reading →

Published Date: 7th May 2011
 Category: General, Lavender Oil
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28
Apr

Storage and Maturing of Lavender Oil

The Maturing and Storing of Lavender Oils, and oil yields In earlier blogs I’ve written about the harvesting of lavender and the distillation process. What next in the process? Well, initially, after distillation our lavender oil has a “rough” odour … Continue reading →

Published Date: 28th April 2011
 Category: General, Lavender Oil, Lavender Tips
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