Once the French writer Romain Roland noted that France is romantic because she has Provence. The air here is such that he wants to literally drink. If you find yourself here in July or in August, rent a car and go on a picturesque road toward Valraa or Vaison-la-Roman. What will open to your eye, believe, "stands Massa". The feeling that all the valleys and hills someone took and changed the dresses of different shades of purple. It seems as if you are not in the center of Europe, but on some fantastic planet from Roman Ray Bradbury. It blooms lavender. Fresh, soothing, slightly cool fragrance, in which herbaceous chords are guessed. I want to wrap up in it, as if in a soft cashmere shawl. This desire is quite explained, because Lavender has a beneficial effect on the nervous system. It relieves stress, helps when overwork and, as Japanese scientists confirmed, stimulates mental activity and contributes to the concentration of attention.
However, long before that the famous healer Avicenna noted that "Lavender is like a whip for the heart and a broom for the brain." Paradox, but the lilac flower is also aphrodisiac! Although Lavender, we know first of all as a soothing agent ... The Roman writer of Apuli wrote in due time: "She expels evil spirits from the room, where there is a couple, and helps them love each other." Here is the unity of opposites in one bottle. Roman Patricia, spending leisure in terms, diminished the body with lavender water not only in hygienic purposes, but also in order to be attractive for excellent ladies or boys. By the way, the word "lavender" comes from Latin Lavare, which means "wash". Her twigs were used with washing and for disinfection of premises and in the Middle Ages. And in the XVI-XVII century, lavender water entered the fashion, in England in the era of Queen Elizabeth, it was very popular. Then the plant began to grow for the perfume industry. Lavender chord today can be found more often in male flavors than in women's. In cosmetology, the lavender oil value is difficult to overestimate. It is indispensably due to its unique healing properties. In a word, Lavender deserves that it belongs to it more closely, and not only used as a means from moths and flavors of bed linen.