Lavender Oil

Lavender oil is an essential oil obtained by distillation from the flower spikes of certain species of lavender. Two forms are distinguished, lavender flower oil, a colorless oil, insoluble in water, having a density of 0. 885 g/ml; and lavender spike oil, a distillate from the herb lavandula latifolia, having density 0. 905 g/ml. Lavender flower oil is a designation of the national formulary and the british pharmacopoeia. Like all essential oils, it is not a purecompound; it is a complex mixture of naturally occurring phytochemicals, including linalool and linalyl acetate. Kashmir lavender oil is famous for being produced from lavender at the foothills of the himalayas.