NOW Foods Lavender Oil is steam distilled from fresh flowering tops, ensuring only the purest and highest quality oil available. Soothing, normalizing, and balancing, lavender essential oil is great for aromatherapy and has many other uses. For non-aromatherapy purposes, such as applying directly to the skin, carefully dilute with a carrier oil such as jojoba, grape seed, olive, or almond oil prior to use. Please consult an essential oil book or other professional reference source for suggested dilution ratios.