Make lavender oil yourself: step by step to the fragrance oil

Lavender oil* You can make it yourself with just a few ingredients and a little patience. Here we reveal how to make the scented oil and what is important.

In June, the lavender begins to bloom. It not only smells stunning and looks pretty. The small purple plant is also a medicinal herb and quite handy in the home.

So you can use a sachet of dried lavender to repel moths.

The fragrant and medicinal plant is also suitable as a spice in the kitchen. Lavender tastes very delicious with lamb, fish or salad.

The purple flowering medicinal and fragrant herb (Lavendula) can be transformed into many valuable products. From teas, Lavender bath salt, Lavender fragrance sachet up to cosmetics. My absolute favorite is homemade Lavender oil*.

Who goes to the Lavender oil* you still have a piece of your own balcony or garden to hand even in the cold winter.

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Why should I make lavender oil myself?

There are many reasons to make the fragrance oil. One of the most convincing are its many uses. It helps against headaches, has a calming effect, can drive away fears and sorrows and smells simply heavenly.

With more than 280 different ingredients, genuine Lavender oil* a very valuable product. It has now been scientifically proven what all those involved in natural history and plants have known for a long time.

Especially the fragrance building stone linalyl acetate affects our organism in many ways.

Lavender oil* is used particularly often in aromatherapy.

In winter, it conjures up soothing scents in the home as a fragrance oil. Lavender oil can also be used as Massage oil be used. Or to Insects to ward off. You can make a DIY make mosquito repellent spray.

Who under Headache suffers, can apply a little of it on the temples. The lavender oil acts quickly and soothes.

But lavender oil also helps with rheumatic complaints, insomnia, anxiety and panic states as well as Stress.

By the way, the medicinal plant also acts anti-inflammatory, is antiseptic and soothing.

If you make lavender oil yourself, you can easily make it in large quantities. It is excellent for massages or as a room fragrance.

For medicinal purposes, the DIY version of the oil is not suitable. For this purpose, it is better to get distilled lavender oil from the pharmacy.

Homemade fragrance oil from Lavender flowers* is the basis for many DIY creams, scrubs and ointments. If you make it from your own flower bush, all you need is the Almond oil*. However, anyone who spends a lot of time with natural cosmetics will have it at home anyway.

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Tip: Natural cosmetics to make yourself

In the book, The Glow - Naturkosmetik selber machen, you will find many great instructions for DIY cosmetic projects. From creams, shampoos, scrubs, oils you will find many step-by-step instructions with photos.

When I started to deal with the topic, I stumbled across the book. It offers a lot of great instructions for beginners and also advanced. And for every skin and hair type. I can highly recommend it to you and regularly prepare natural cosmetics with the book.

Distilled vs. prepared fragrance oil

Not for each of these applications use the same lavender oil. It is necessary to distinguish between essential - distilled oil and pickled lavender oil.

Making pure lavender oil, as you know it from the drugstore, is hardly possible at home. For distillation you would need a lot of lavender, a distillation machine and a lot of time. And extremely many Lavender flowers*.

To be precise, up to 40 kilograms of flowers come to 1 liter of pure essential oil of lavender. With wild lavender even 4x as much. At home, this is almost impossible.

Fortunately, what works much easier is to make simple lavender oil itself.

So easy you can make fragrant bath oil yourself!

What base oil for lavender oil?

For the lavender oil, you must first make a cold oil extract. For this, you will use a base oil (carrier oil) of your choice. You can choose pretty much any liquid vegetable oil that suits your skin type. Especially popular are Almond oil*olive oil or hemp seed oil are used.

These oils are suitable as carrier oil:

• Argan oil*
• Avocado oil*
• Safflower oil
• Hemp seed oil
• Jojoba oil*
• Almond oil*
• Olive oil

Better not to use sunflower oil. Sunflower oil is available everywhere. However, if you're making lavender oil at home, you should avoid it. This is because sunflower seed-based lavender oils are less durable than fragrance oils based on other vegetable oils.

What ingredients do I need to make a lavender fragrance oil?

Let's take a quick look at the ingredients before we get to the recipe. That way, you'll know exactly what to look for. But that's done quickly anyway. There are no more than two ingredients.

Lavender

Logical, right? If you want to make lavender oil yourself, you need the purple flower. The best way to harvest lavender is with the stem and leaves. You will find the most aroma in the flowers. But you can pickle the whole plant.

I always use the lavender from my garden for this. If you also have a big bush, don't harvest it completely. The bees need and love it. They collect the pollen of the purple flowers especially eagerly.

If you need to buy blossoms, check out the farmer's market. In our area, a farmer's wife offers fresh blossoms. From June to the end of July, you can buy fresh lavender from her. Alternatively you can also dried lavender flowers* process. However, as they don't give off as much aroma, you need to use more of them. And don't forget to crush them in a mortar to release the fragrance.

Almond oil

My favorite in the main care is Almond oil*. It ensures soft and supple skin. If you want to apply it to your face: almond oil does not clog the pores and is therefore ideal.

It copes very well especially with dry and irritated skin and moisturizes normal skin.

If you do not have Almond oil* at hand, then you can also Avocado oil*thistle oil or Jojoba oil* take. Make sure that it is relatively odorless. As lavender already has a strong note of its own, it could otherwise combine and, in the worst case, smell bad.

In my opinion, olive oil is less suitable - although some recommend and do, I think the inherent odor is too intense. Sunflower oil quickly becomes rancid and is therefore also not so suitable for this.

That was all about the ingredients.

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• Dried lavender flowers*
• Almond oil, alternatively avocado or safflower oil

How to make lavender oil yourself?

Add a teaspoon of fresh or dried, lightly crushed Lavender flowers* into a sealable glass jar and fill it with 200 milliliters of safflower, almond or olive oil to make your own lavender oil.

There are two ways to get the fragrance oil.

1. The cold method
2. The Warm Method

Either the lavender is left to infuse in the oil for a while or the oil is heated a bit and the flowers are crushed with a mortar. Faster you get to the goal with the second method, but here you have to make sure that the oil is not too warm, because otherwise the delicate flowers burn.

The cold method

For the cold method, put 3-4 tablespoons of flowers, twigs and leaves in a mortar. After mortaring, put them in a jar and pour 250 ml of oil.

Put the oil in a warm place without direct sunlight. Let it infuse for 5-7 days and shake the jar gently every day.

However, you can reach your goal much faster with the Warm Method. I would now like to introduce this to you in detail.

Make lavender oil yourself - The tutorial

You have never made a lavender oil and have little experience with oils? Then you will find here a detailed tutorial with detailed explanation. If you have experimented more often, you can find a short version of the recipe at the end of the post.

Ingredients

• 60 gram lavender
• 1 liter almond oil

Also: mortar, pot and glass for filling

Instruction

1. release the oil

First you need to release the essential oil from the lavender. If you just put it as it is, the oil will hardly smell. If you use leaves and stem as well, then cut them with scissors.

In the part from which the flowers begin, hides the most fragrance. You can release it with a mortar or simply rub the flowers between your fingers.

Attention with the finger method: Please wash your hands well and do not reach with your fingers near the eyes.

Put the plant parts all in a dark jar that can be sealed.

2. warm up the almond oil

Pour the almond oil into a pot. Heat it until it is about lukewarm. It will be about 30 to 35 degrees, you can use a thermometer if you like. I rely on my intuition.

If the oil is too hot, let it cool briefly.

Pour it on top of the lavender and stir the mixture.

3. let the fragrance oil infuse

Now the oil must rest. To do this, close the lid and put it in a dark place. Room temperature up to 25 degrees is optimal. I put it in a storage cabinet.

Stir the mixture again and again. Best 1x per day.

4. fill the lavender oil

After about 30 days it has developed its full aroma. You can now pour the oil through a sieve and decant it into a new bottle. The new bottle should also be dark and never stand in the blazing sun.

Can I make lavender oil myself in the Thermomix?

A Thermomix food processor can be found in more and more households. However, making your own lavender oil in a Thermomix only works up to the TM5 series. Only with these versions you can regulate the temperature very precisely.

If you have a Thermomix, put lavender and oil in the machine and filter your own lavender oil after about an hour. Bottle it.

Important: Many instructions for the Thermomix advise setting the temperature to 60 degrees. However, I would not recommend more than 50 degrees, better even only 40. At high temperatures, the scent of lavender decreases.

What can you do with lavender oil?

Lavender essential oil is a calming, relaxing and soothing component of aromatherapy. It has a calming effect on our emotions and sleep problems. Lavender essential oil is also used in cosmetics for the skin and hair, as it has a disinfectant and analgesic effect.

But beware: essential oils and the homemade variety are not the same! Essential oils are very highly concentrated and should never be used on the skin without a carrier oil. It is much too aggressive and can lead to bad skin irritations.

If you want to use lavender oil for aromatherapy, you will need a diffuser that moistens the air with a little water and releases the oil into the room in a very fine spray.

Homemade lavender oil is mild and can be applied directly to the skin. Lavender oil promotes cell regeneration. On the one hand, it has a preventive effect against skin aging, on the other hand, it supports wound healing by stimulating the growth of skin cells. The oil has an antiseptic effect that helps soothe inflamed skin and accelerate the healing of insect bites.

Can you take lavender oil?

Homemade lavender oil can be taken. You can rub it on your skin, massage your feet, or smear it on your temples. It is a great addition to full and foot baths.

You should never take essential oil pure. It is far too concentrated and can cause severe burns to the throat and esophagus. You can use a few drops of lavender oil to spice up your water, tea or coffee.

And here, as promised, the abridged version of the recipe for all those who have little time or have prepared oils more often:

TipIf your lavender oil doesn't really smell like lavender after 4 weeks, grab some fresh flowers and mix them in. Wait another 2 weeks until it smells.

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Our conclusion

Lavender oil is made quickly. Making the fragrant oil is not costly and gives a lot of pleasure as a gift.

By the way, if you have fresh lavender, you should dry it right away. In homemade bath balls or mixed with bath salts, it drives away cold feet in winter. :)

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