What is Hydrosol and how can you use it around your home?

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Recently we introduced a brand new product to Belvedere Lavender customers – Hydrosol. But what is this product, how can you use it around your home and most importantly, why should you?

Let’s dive in!

What’s Hydrosol?

When we extract essential oil from lavender, the process creates the essential lavender oil – which we bottle and sell, and the hydrosol. This hydrosol is the floral water, containing essence of lavender and water. Hydrosols are a gentle scent and less concentrated while essential oils are a heavier smell, and more concentrated.

Hydrosol has so many uses and purposes! While new in popularity, you’ll find a rich history of using floral water in various forms. These include: Perfumes, Skin toners, Aromatherapy, Makeup products, Skin care products, and Natural Health Products.

We’ll focus our attention on lavender. When we make essential lavender oil, using our copper still, we end up with 2 different products – the essential oil and the hydrosol. After these mixtures are separated and cooled, they’re bottled separately and dated. At each step we control the manufacturing process to ensure quality. Using both liquids from this manufacturing process is a smart, environmental move. We hate waste!

What do you use hydrosol for?

Now that we know what hydrosol is, what is its purpose? What can the floral water be used for, during or with? This is an excellent question. As we use all natural, organic products in our work and home lives, using hydrosol in our homes is the perfect addition to going green and using sustainable products.

Room deodorizer

You can use hydrosol for many purposes, including in place of room deodorizers. Looking to add a light, gentle scent to your room? Give hydrosol a try. You can add this light scent, without using products full of chemicals.

Ironing

Looking to iron a shirt or pair of pants, or whatever you iron? Use hydrosol in place of regular water. Be careful when ironing – cotton, linen clothing work well with hydrosol. But stay clear of using hydrosol on all silk items.

Cleaning Products

If you’re looking to kick your cleaning products to the curb because they’re made with too many chemicals for your liking, try making your own. We suggest a mixture of distilled water, white vinegar and lavender hydrosol. This cleaning mixture can also be used on windows and glass. If you’re cleaning greasy items, add a little dish soap into the mixture.

Rinsing Clothing

Adding lavender hydrosol to the final rinse of your washing machine is a great way to add softness and a light lavender scent to clothing. Consider swapping out fabric softener.

Makeup Remover

So many makeup removers are full of chemicals and dry out your skin. Instead of using these products, switch to a lavender hydrosol. You can add a little hydrosol to a cotton makeup pad and remove your makeup. The addition of lavender hydrosol adds moisture back to your skin and helps condition and tone it.

These 5 uses for hydrosol begin to demonstrate how useful and how versatile this product is. As we and many others continue to incorporate using all natural ingredients and products in our homes, we’ve begun to use our Lavender Hydrosol in place of many household products. We don’t miss the chemicals, but love the all natural scents.

You can find our all-natural, organic, Hydrosol on our shop, along with our luxurious hand processed organic skin care products.

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The Power of Lavender

The Power of Lavender

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As people who surround themselves around lavender each day, we know the power of locally grown English lavender is. We know the positive effect of lavender on people, their mental health and their skin. 

Did you know that lavender helps with anxiety and stress reduction and can help contribute to a good night’s sleep?

It’s true. We’ve been using our Sweet Dreams Sleep Roller to help calm and relax our minds and bodies just before bedtime. Add in a few moments for meditation and we have never been sleeping better.

The gentle smell of lavender calms our minds and puts our minds at ease. As we lay our heads down on our pillows, the gentle whiff of lavender helps maintain our peaceful state of mind. As someone who struggles with sleep, both getting to sleep and staying asleep, the smell of lavender helps remind us that sleep is just around the corner. Breathing deep and inhaling the smell of lavender helps calm our heads and slows our breathing. Sleep isn’t far off.

One of the secret projects we’ve been working on is distilling our own lavender oil so you can take it home and use it as we have been. We’ll be announcing this product’s release soon.

Did you know that lavender’s effect on the skin is legendary?

For centuries lavender has been used as a treatment for inflamed skin and skin conditions like eczema. The lavender protects the skin and provides deep moisture to cracked and red skin. While moisturizing, it helps reduce the inflammation associated with the red skin – and eczema flare ups. 

As we continue to encounter dry skin in the winter months, keep an eye on your skin. If you encounter dry and cracked skin on your hands and body, consider using our Hand & Body Lotion, Body Oil and Body Butter. While all three products have different ingredients, they all support repairing damaged skin and moisturize.

Lavender is known the world over for having incredible properties that can help repair and restore skin, moisturize and help calm, soothe and reduce stress and anxiety. Join the lavender revolution and learn the power of lavender.