Lavender Products

[debodun]

I couldn't believe this was still on the give-away table at the senior center. An assortment of lavender scented personal care products. I like lavender - couldn't pass that up.

 

[Right Now]

Lavender is a very popular scent, for calming effects. I must be one of the few folks who doesn't enjoy that scent at all. It must be from when I was a child....perhaps my grandmother used it?

 

[debodun]

This looks like it was a gift to someone. Perhaps they didn't like lavender, either.

 

[carouselsilver]

My husband doesn't like the smell, because his grandmother used it. So I limit how much I like to spritz on my pillow before sleeping.

 

[Bellbird]

Beautiful,my favourite colour and perfume. I would love receiving that as a gift.

 

[hollydolly]

I hate the smell of artificial lavender, it reminds me of Old people..

 

[LadyEmeraude]

I am a fan of Lavender scents, as was my mother, so it brings me sweet memories
of course. I have a very mild Lavender body lotion here at home and I use it now
and then, soothing for me~

 

[Alligatorob]

lavender

The only thing I know of that I am allergic to. Wrecks my sinuses.

 

[Remy]

I love lavender. Good score. I'm sure it was a gift someone didn't want. I use Badger sleep balm that has lavender and I swear it helps me sleep.

It's really nice that they have that table for free items.

 

[Remy]

I hate the smell of artificial lavender, it reminds me of Old people..

I'm kind of like that with anything vanilla scented Love real vanilla in cooking. But vanilla lotions etc are just yuck to me.

 

[hollydolly]

I'm kind of like that with anything vanilla scented Love real vanilla in cooking. But vanilla lotions etc are just yuck to me.

I understand.. The thing about Lavender for me.. is that it was one of the few artificial scents that was around when I was a kid, and all the very old people used it in furniture polish, and perfume.. and visiting an elderly person meant being drenched in that fake Lavender smell.. .. even my mother would polish the floors with lavender floor polish.. but that was only once in a while..

We have a Lavender farm not far away.. and the smell is absolutely different..

 

[David777]

One of my favorite activities after wet winters in Southern California deserts is photographing desert wildflowers and their landscapes. Am also someone that sticks my sensitive nose into many plants and their flowers. Desert Lavender, condea emoryi, is common in both tour Sonora and Mojave Deserts arroyos and indeed I always enjoy getting close to the perennial's fragrant blossoms that are often swarming with honey bees.

https://calscape.org/Condea-emoryi-(Desert-Lavender)?srchcr=sc584d1fc850324

Honeybee near desert lavender in 2008, Nikon Coolpix.

Anza Borrego State Park March 2019, A6000 3 frame stitch blend 9400x6000 pixels full image, here downsized by 1/4 for web. Desert lavender a bit above lower right corner on edge. Two of us dispersed camped near this over 2 nights. The amount of colorful fragrant desert flowers during such events is world class.

A small 100% pixels crop from the above image in same frame area a bit left showing how dense with flowers those plants are along with red hued chuparosa and yellow hued brittlebush...Bee and Butterfly Heaven

 

[hollydolly]

This is our fairly local Lavender Farm...

 

[officerripley]

The only thing I know of that I am allergic to. Wrecks my sinuses.

Same here.

 

[Jace]

I hate the smell of artificial lavender, it reminds me of Old people..

Yup! I agree!

 

[chic]

I hate the smell of artificial lavender, it reminds me of Old people..

 

[chic]

I don't hate the smell of lavender but I don't buy lavender scented products because it doesn't smell like walking through a patch of wild lavender. That is heavenly. My mom does love lavender and uses lavender soap all the time. I prefer the real stuff.

 

[Lavinia]

You do need to check the ingredients. 'Lavender' products don't always contain the real thing but a sort of artificial substitute which doesn't have the same benefits.
After Christmas, I always check the charity shops for this sort of thing. People get them for Christmas presents and then pass them on to charities. Last year I bought a Marks and Spencer magnolia set, which smells divine.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I hate the smell of artificial lavender, it reminds me of Old people..

I don't remember what my ex used to use. Este Laude lavender something or other. She loved it, but to me, it smelled of old people, too.

 

[debodun]

The brand on the packaged lavender is Simple Pleasures Lavender Fields.

 

[Lewkat]

I like lavender in small doses. A drop of lavender oil on your pillow helps you sleep at night.

 

[Paco Dennis]

Never use it. If I do in the future I will get the real oils though.

"Is there fake lavender oil?

The lack of enforcement of quality guidelines has allowed the production of fake essential oils and imitation products that may look real, but don't offer the same benefits. These fake lavender oils are made up of chemicals that can harm your skin and should not be used for anything but home fragrance."

(Google 2022)

 

[Sassycakes]

I love the smell of Lavender. It has a calming effect on me.

 

[David777]

After reading this thread again, went upstairs in my 2 story unit and pulled out a small box of 20 oil fragrance bottles I'd bought years ago. While trying to put some lavender on a cotton swab, accidentally spilled much more than intended of the liquid on my right hand. So yeah tonight I is lavender. Wanna dance Sweet P? And no don't want to wash it off yet.