Lavender-Infused Oil - delighting the senses

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”

- Luther Burbank 

We have English lavender plants in our garden at Little Earth. This year, over summer, we had an abundance of lavender flowers blooming in our garden.  We wondered what we can make out of them.  Last year we have learned how we can cook with our lavender flowers.  We know that lavender biscuits are yummy but we want to know more.  This year we have been exploring other ways on how we make our lavender flowers more beneficial to us apart from attracting bees in our garden and using them to beautify our surroundings.

We had a look at  a lavender book and we saw a photo of a bottle of lavender soaked in a yellow stuff- apparently it is oil.  We learned that lavender flowers have oil that can make another oil aromatic.  We decided that we wanted to make this, too, thus; we made our own lavender-infused oil,  learning about making  lavender-infused oil which can be used for cooking and for taking care of our body as an itchy bite ointment or  for relaxing our tired bodies.

Here is what we did:

- Materials: fresh lavender flowers, olive oil, jar, strainer

- Fill a jar with lavender buds.

- Pour the olive oil over the buds. Fill it full enough to cover the buds completely.

- Let the jar sit for at least a week in a dry place away from direct sunlight.

- Shake the jar at least once a week to make sure the potion is mixed well.

- After a week, use the strainer to strain all the lavender and sediment from the oil.

- Pour the oil into the clean jar.

You now have your own infused lavender oil to use for baths or massages. Our lavender infused oil can even be used for cooking.

Needless to say we had plenty of uptakes for our  bottles of Lavender oil!

- Anja