This weekend, The Girl and I decided to go check out the Sequim Lavender Festival and Street Fair. Yep, just acres and acres of lavender. And, let me tell you, it smelled amazing. While we were there, we learned a ton about lavender and what you can do with it.
Here’s my favorite:
- Use lavender oil to treat burns. If you burn yourself while cooking {I never do, but have heard of it happening—ha!}, put a couple of drops of lavender oil on the burn and then run cold water over it.
- Put a few drops of lavender oil on your pillow for a more peaceful night of sleep. This one seriously works wonders.
- Add lavender to your recipes to spice it up a bit. I found quite a few recipes I plan on trying with the lavender I’m growing this year.
- Make tea. Yes please. Add 2 tbsp. fresh lavender flowers {chopped} to 8 cups of water and steep. Strain out flowers and drink up.
- Add a few drops of lavender essential oil to your face creams and lotions. Not only will it smell awesome, but lavender has restorative properties. {Hmm, I wonder if I put the whole bottle in, it will restore my skin to my 20’s?}
- Use for sore muscles. Massage a couple of drops of lavender oil into sore muscles, sprains, etc. for pain relief.
- Make sachets for drawers. Cut your lavender and place it into an old sock. Tie the sock, and voila, homemade sachets for your sock drawer.
- Sooth a stuffy nose with lavender oil. Add 5 drops to a small bowl of hot water and inhale. Breathe easy {pun intended} that you didn’t have to snuff up any harsh chemicals.
- Create your own antiseptic cleaner with a spray bottle, baking soda, lavender oil, rubbing alcohol and water.
- Rub lavender oil on your temples to treat headaches.
Have you tried any of these? How do you use lavender?
~Mavis
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Kathy says
Have a lavender sachet that is by head of bed, when needed I just give it a rub and sleep like a baby. Oil on bottom of feet to help sleep as well. Oil on pulse points helps sooth anxiety attack. But I would suggest not using too often because if you do it could stop working.
Krista S says
i have a recipe to share with you for lavender:
Lemon pepper lavender chicken
either use a grill or an oven for this one
take your chicken breasts and put them on aluminum foil each piece on a separate sheet.
season with salt coarse black pepper and lavender, top with lemon and a pat of butter.
wrap them up and cook put em on the grill or in the oven for about 20 minutes for an average size, more or less depending on how big the breast is.
you can even make your own bbq sauce with lavender in it and ive also many times thrown some in a stew or soup in the crock pot
Erin @Quixotic Magpie says
I went to a lavender festival in Michigan recently, and had lavender lemonade, which was awesome! I am still looking for a recipe .I haven’t followed your link to recipes yet, maybe I will find one there! 🙂
Krista S says
2-1/2 cups water
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon dried lavender flowers
2-1/2 cups cold water
1 cup lemon juice
Ice cubes
Directions
In a large saucepan, bring water and sugar to a boil. Remove from the heat; add lavender. Cover and let stand for 1 hour.
Strain, discarding lavender. Stir in cold water and lemon juice. Serve over ice.
Natalie says
Do u have a recipe for lavender oil??
Shannon Weinstein says
I use lavender leaves and buds to infuse my white and apple cider vinegars. I usually cant stand the smell of regular vinegar, but I like to keep my home chemical free for cleaning. The lavender (and I usually add mint to it too) infused vinegars take the stink out of them and make a super concentrated solution for cleaning. I water it down and use it for everything. The apple cider vinegar infusion I use as a rinse for my hair…very soothing to the scalp. Love your blog Mavis! Keep up the good work and awesome ideas!
Samantha Ames says
I put 50/50 lavender and sugar in my coffee grinder to make lavender sugar. I then use that in teas, coffee, baking, etc. I will also grind up mint, lemon balm, and lavender…about a 50/25/25 mix. As for essential oils… I prefer Doterra oils. As spendy as they are, at least I know they are therapy grade. I will take a mixture of refracted coconut oil, peppermint oil, and lavender oil (50/25/25) and use this to cool off with during hot flashes or during unbearable hear waves.
Anne-Marie Bilella says
Mavis I use lavender a bunch in my herbal makings!!! An easy recipe for a lavender calming spray – 1 or 2 ounce bottle, fill 2/3 way with witch hazel, the rest with water, stopping just below the neck of the bottle and add 15 drops of lavender essential oil. Add a spritzer top and shake before using!
Also my favorite cookie recipe using lavender is from Giada DeLaurentis –
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/lavender-and-lemon-cookies-recipe/index.html
Totally yummy!!!!!!!
Evonne says
Do you have the recipe for the antiseptic cleaner?
Michelle D says
All of those are great uses for lavender! I like to use it as a sunscreen and if we’ve had too much sun I will mix some with aloe to apply to the skin. Very soothing! It’s also a natural antihistamine so it can be used for allergies. We rub some over the sinuses and also put about 5 drops in a capsule to take internally (I ONLY uses and recommend Young Living Essential Oils because I know they are pure and therapeutic grade). I’ll post a couple recipes that use Lavender EO.
Michelle D says
Lavender Lemonade recipe
Lavender Lemonade
7 lemons, peeled and juiced
2 limes, peeled and juiced
1 drop lavender oil
14 cups water
1-1/2 cup Blue Agave
Mix all ingredients together and chill.
Add more water or Blue Agave, depending on the size and tartness of the fruit.
Be careful that you don’t add more than a drop of lavender oil so that it does not overpower your lemonade.
Michelle D says
http://www.recipe.com/lemon-lavender-cookies
teena says
I put it all over the house because I love everything lavender and I use it in my bath tub. Made lavender bread the other day it was a big hit with my other half and the neighbors, just stirred the buds into the water and yeast mixture or you can mix it in with the flour before you put it in the water and yeast. It goes so well with peach or blackberry jam.