Lavender Blooms is a natural ingredient manufactured from dried blooms of Lavender.
Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World and is found in Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, and from Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia to southeast India.
Many members of the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, for use as culinary herbs, and also commercially for the extraction of essential oils. The most widely cultivated species, Lavandula angustifolia, is often referred to as lavender, and there is a color named for the shade of the flowers of this species.
Lavender is a small shrub present on all Mediterranean coasts.
It is a strongly aromatic shrub growing as high as 1 to 2 meters (3.3 to 6.6 ft) tall. The leaves are evergreen, 2–6 centimeters (0.79–2.36 in) long, and 4–6 millimeters (0.16–0.24 in) broad. The flowers are pinkish-purple (lavender-colored), produced on spikes 2–8 cm (0.79–3.15 in) long at the top of slender, leafless stems 10–30 cm (3.9–11.8 in) long.
This plant has relaxing, soothing and healing recognized properties.
Used in cosmetics, it enables to relieve tension and promote sleep. But lavender has also purifying properties that help regulate oily skin.