What to Do and Make With All Your Lovely Lavender {DIY List}

"If you could choose only one herb for household use, lavender would have to be at the top of the list. Apart from its pretty flower and much loved scent, lavender is antibacterial, antibiotic, antiviral, antiseptic, deodorizing and insect repelling, which means that you can use it in the living room, kitchen, bathroom, laundry, nursery and patio, as well as in your wardrobes and drawers, on your pets and on your skin." 

~ The Complete Illustration Book of Herbs, Reader's Digest

If you have read this blog for some time, you already know that lavender, with its variety of uses, is one of my favorite plants. Though its water was prized in the Regency Era (Jane Austen wrote of lavender water in her novels and referred to it in her letters), it was Queen Victoria who popularized this amazing flower as a homemaking necessity. She had her rooms perfumed with it and even appointed a Miss Sarah Sprules as “Purveyor of Lavender Essence to the Queen”!



“It is generally known that the Queen is a great believer in Lavender as a disinfectant, and that she is not at all singular in her faith in this plant… The royal residences are strongly impregnated with the refreshing odour of this old-fashioned flower, and there is no perfume that the Queen likes better than Lavender-water, which, together with the oil for disinfecting purposes, Her Majesty has direct from a lady who distills it herself.”

~ Fragrant Flowers, 1895

And the romantic, natural, modern-day homemaker? I suggest you embrace it to its fullest capacity! Here are some wonderful ways that we use lavender in our household and for gift giving. We will be sharing more ideas in the future since there are so many enjoyable things to do and make with this heavenly herb! {Note: If you don't have a lavender plant, you can always purchase flower buds here.}

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luxurious lavender bath salts

lavender scented carpet deodorizer



{no sew} lavender drawer sachets

lavender infused cleaning solution



lavender lotion bars



lavender infused medicinal oil

how to dry lavender for teas, potpourri and such



lavender infused cleaning product collection with printable labels

"sweet lavender" botanical perfume

lavender laundry soap

grow your own lavender from cuttings

scent your letters with sweet lavender sprigs

“The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs,

with fields of lavender,

and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows...” 

~William Cullen Bryant

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