La Selva
Lavender
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Our site is being updated and will be live shortly. We look forward to presenting our new line of products made with 100% Lavender oil distilled with locally grown and harvested Grosso Lavender.
Locally Grown
La Selva Lavender is grown on a small family farm just two miles from the Pacific Ocean on the Monterey Bay. The cool coastal temps along with the plentiful California sunshine is perfect for growing our plants and extracting our essential oil.
Harvested by Hand
We are a small operation with only 500 Grosso (Lavandula x Intermedia ) plants, 1/4 of those are Grosso White. We use a hand sickle to cut the stems and then gather them for distillation.
Steam Distillation
After harvest we process small batches of the lavender blossoms. Our process uses steam to strip the oil from the flowers and then the steam is cooled and it returns to a liquid state. We capture the liquid in a separation vessel where the essential lavender oil floats on top of the lavender hydrosol (floral water). We get about 20 ounces of hydrosol to 1 ounce of essential oil and we only get about 5 ounces of essential oil with each run of lavender.
We process the white lavender the same way but we keep but distill them separately because it has a very different aroma.
