Lovely Lovely Lavender
Just over 100 years ago, Rene-Maurice Gattefosse, a French chemist, burned his hand during an experiment. He immediately plunged his injured extremity into the nearest liquid he could find, a small bowl of Lavender oil. Over the next few days and weeks, he was shocked out how quickly his hand healed. Based on this finding, Gattefosse spent the rest of his life learning and writing about essential oils, coining the...