The key ingredient to all our products is our pure Wolds Way Lavender Essential Oil that is distilled here on site from the Lavender growing in our fields. 

An essential oil that is incomparable! Wolds Way Lavender Oil is distilled from our plants in our own fields and bottled for you to use for aromatic, relaxation, medicinal purposes and products such as our Lavender and Beeswax polish.

Lavenders healing properties are legendary. It is antiseptic, antibiotic and antiviral. It may also be used as an insect repellent. A versatile oil to be used in the house, car or medicine kit.

The distillation process is traditional and has been used over the centuries, which imparts a special quality into the Wolds Way Lavender Essential Oil.

1st the Lavender is harvested from our fields

Then it is carried into the Distillery by Narrow Guauge Railway

The freshly cut Lavender is loaded into the still

The ponds at Wolds Way Lavender whilst decorative do provide the cooling water for the distillation process

The wood fire boils the kettle to make steam, which then passes through the still with the  lavender in.

The end result is the 100% pure, Wolds Way Lavender Essential Oil. It contains no additives or carriers. It is grown without pesticides, insecticides or herbicides. It is a natural substance involving no chemical process. It is carefully stored  before it is used to retain its high quality.

How is Soap made?
Soap comes from a chemical reaction between various oils and fats and caustic soda (lye or NaOH), called saponification. In the Handmade cold-process soapmaking method, the basic mixture of vegetable oils and fats, sodium hydroxide, water, natural nutrients and essential oils is stirred together. No additional heat is supplied apart from the gentle heat needed to melt the oils at the start of the process and the glycerin is stirred back into the soap as the saponification reaction takes place. This means that handmade soap retain all the glycerin, making superior and gentle bars of soap.

Our soap uses simple, everyday ingredients.

Commercial soap is usually produced from tallow and other fats plus a variety of synthetic compounds which are added to produce the desired lather, texture and hardness of the finished bar. The mixture is boiled at high temperatures with the caustic solution until the process of saponification takes place; soap is the end product. The soap is then grated very finely (milled) and sent through a machine which compacts the soap shreds very tightly to produce a hard, polished bar. However, more additives are needed to give the soap the required amount of plasticity and to prevent the soap from sticking to the rollers of the milling machine. When fats, oils and lye are mixed, the other product produced besides soap is glycerin. During the manufacture of commercial soaps, glycerin is produced and is either washed away with the other waste products, or it is separated out and sold on to the cosmetics, food or explosives (think nitro-glycerin!) industries. This is an enormous loss – glycerin is a natural moisturiser for the skin, and the removal of glycerin during the commercial production of soap is one of the reasons why commercial soaps can often be so drying to the skin.

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