Pranarôm Hydrolat BIO Lavender Vera 150ml

A hydrosol is distillation water or floral water obtained during the steam distillation of an aromatic or medicinal plant, to obtain an essential oil. During the distillation process in the still, the aromatic molecules of the distilled raw materials are entrained with water vapor, condensed and recovered in a decanter. The distillate obtained is composed of supernatant essential oil and distillation water, in which a very small part of the essential oil is dissolved.| A hydrosol is not as potent as an essential oil, however since it is composed of water (floral water), it retains water-soluble odorous molecules and remains lightly scented, possessing certain therapeutic properties.| In ancient texts we find mentions relating to lavender. Dioscorides' De materia medica evokes lavender, which we find shortly afterwards in the Orphic Argonautica, an anonymous text from the 3rd century AD. In reality, the therapeutic importance that we attribute today to fine lavender and aspic is equivalent to that which the ancients attributed to stoechade.| We know some ancient uses of lavender: they tell us that lavender was burned in rooms dove the sick were housed. At the same modo, perfumed the bath water among the Romans who benefited, at the same time, from the skin virtues of lavender. Purification and sanitization are two characteristics contained in the very name of lavender. Its Latin name, in fact, lavandula, derives from the Latin lavare, which simply means to wash.