Hidcote Giant Lavender Essential Oil

There are well over 400 varieties of lavender available today. Hidcote Giant is a popular variety known for it's tightly compact large sturdy flowers and robust aroma. X-Intermedia varieties are a cross between a English Lavender and Spike Lavender plants. They are some of the hardiest varieties, which produce a distinctly strong essential oil that is commonly used in sprays and soap making. It tends to repel insects with it's high levels of camphor and is known to be rather soothing and calming.

In the spring of 2018, we purchased our first copper still from Portugal, and began steam distilling several of our lavender varieties including Grosso, Hidcote Giant, Dutch Mill and Folgate. It takes nearly 2 hours to release all of the beautiful lavender oil from the flowers. Two ingredients are created from the steam; the hydrosol or lavender linen water and lavender essential oil. They both are lovely products and have a variety of uses! Add a few drops to your liquid soap, lotion, roller balls, room sprays or add to your diffuser.

We hope that you enjoy using our gorgeous oils as much as we enjoyed making them. See our other listings for other varieties we offer as well as our linen sprays, bundles, sachets and more. Please reach out if you have any questions or would like to purchase larger quantities so I can calculate the proper shipping amount for you.