At Heathcote and Ivory we are promoting Lavender this month as a pick me up and cheer me up treat! Choose from a specially selected array of lavender products which we are reducing in cost up to 75% just for you and only available on line.
Enjoy our potted history, relax at home and let’s, together, set the world to rights! Since Roman times, lavender has been used to scent the water and to restore the skin. Its latin name was lavandārius, from lavanda (things to be washed), from the verb lavāre (to wash).
One pound in weight of lavender was equivalent to a month's wages for a farm labourer,or fifty haircuts from the local barber.When the Romans conquered southern Britain, they introduced lavender to our island.
It continued to gain in popularity and by the middle ages was even involved in attempts to combat the Plague when glove makers would scent their leathers with lavender oil.This story could have some validity as the Plague was transmitted by fleas, which lavender is known to repel.
