With only around 100 lavender growers Australia-wide, consumers often turn to imported lavender oil. Lavender producers claim this imported oil is not as pure as Australian products. It is known for ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Mosquitoes are manifesting in this wet spring, and before you lather up the stinky bug spray, let's look into a viewer-suggester natural alternative. Both an NIH-published study on ...

Ingested lavender oil can help people fall asleep more quickly and enhance the overall quality of rest, making it a popular choice. Due to its topical properties, lavender oil can calm discomfort on ...

A randomized trial conducted at Sanbo Brain Hospital in Beijing, China, suggested that aromatherapy with lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) essential oil may play a relevant role in the postoperative ...

Alain Aubanel has a new worry on top of the wildfires, high energy costs and unreliable supply chains plaguing his part of southeastern France. He fears that the oil derived from the lavender he grows ...

Plenty of plants have a reputation for keeping mosquitoes away—including fragrant lavender, beloved for its easy-growing nature and aromatic foliage and flowers. But can you use lavender plants in ...

A MOSQUITO’S BITE can do more than leave an itchy rash. Depending on the pathogens the insect carries, it can lead to a host of nasty diseases including dengue, malaria and yellow fever. To date, ...

Long after her final customer walked off the fields every August, Ivy Cheung found herself staring at the deep purple lavender plants that lined her 1-acre farm in serene Fall City, rueing the fact ...

Strolling through a massive wave of purple, sisters MaucaBrina Willis and Sashia Ingram of Barstow sipped on violet-hued drinks. They breathed in the floral, slightly sweet, herbal scent of lavender ...