With a wide range of uses including as a base for a perfume, Lavender is a strongly aromatic plant with many well documented uses as an essential oil. Lavender has one of the most wide variety of applications in aromatherapy.
Lavender is useful in treating abscesses, acne, allergies, athletes foot, boils, bruises, dandruff, dermatitus, burns, earache, eczema, inflammations, insect bites, stings, lice, psoriasis, ringworm, scabies, sores, spots and sunburn.
Lavender oils can also lift and relieve the effects of depression, headaches, hypertension, insomnia, migraine, PMT, shock, vertigo and stress related disorders. Other uses of Lavender oil include relieving hallitosis, asthma, lumbago, cystitus and abdominal cramps.