Just walking past the purple flowers makes me feel like I’m the lady of the house in an English manor. I get the post then walk across the lawn again (trudging across it as if I were wearing an English manor type outfit featuring a sensible tweed skirt and a labrador with a gleaming coat of golden hair), inhaling the scent of lavender as I do so. I could very well have segued into a Provence reference here instead but the English version of the dream seems a bit more tangible to me and my Anglophile upbringing here in the Antipodes. What a fascinating sentence that last one was, I have no idea how it adds to my argument but it does contain some rather pretty words.
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My imagination then goes into complete overdrive and I imagine myself, one day, picking my lavender and carefully tying it into bundles before hanging it upside down to dry out in my spare room.
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With this dried lavender, I saw myself making scented heat packs from scratch, filling bowls of potpourri for the lounge room and perhaps even trying my hand at home made, hand pressed lavender soap. In short, I saw the very foundations of SSG Manor being infused with the scent of lavender with myself reaping its numerous benefits in the process.
As luck would have it, my lavender scented dreams are not as improbable as they may sound. Bosisto’s, the Australian company behind the nation’s favourite brand of lavender oil, saved my poor lavender bush and sent me a sample pack of their products to use instead. What’s more, to celebrate 160 years of business, they have 4 prize packs to give away to you as well.
Bosisto’s use a premium pharmaceutical grade oil (Lavandula anustifolia) in their products. Because it isn’t a blended oil, it does have a stronger and cleaner scent than many of its competitors. Aside from the lovely scent, there are a number of therapeutic benefits associated with lavender oil:
- it can aid sleep and relaxation
- it helps to eliminate odours around the house
- it’s a dinfectant
- it can provide relief form insect bites
- it can treat mould and mildew.
The products I have been using (and which will also be in the prize packs) are:
- Lavender Spray 100g (RRP $13.73 AUD at Woolworths)
- Lavender Solution 400ml (RRP $11.95 AUD at Chemist Direct)
- Lavender Oil 25ml (RRP $8.95 AUD at Pharmacy Online).
Lavender solution in action next to a whole range of free loot I got from Coles as part of their Mother and Baby’s Club. Supermarkets love new mothers…. |
- Email me at sydneyshopgirl@hotmail.com with a postal address and your follower name (twitter, instagram or GFC)
- Winners will be selected at random
- Your prize pack will be sent directly from FGB Natural Products
- The competition opens today, Monday October 22, 2012 and closes Sunday November 4 2012.
Best of luck!
Thank you again to FGB Natural Products for their sponsorship of this giveaway and for providing their fabulous products for review.