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✨ Awesome Announcement! Essential Starr joins Lavender Hill Botanicals 🌿

✨ Essential Starr Transitions to Lavender Hill Botanicals

Continuing the Legacy of Light, Love, and Botanical Beauty

Dear Friends and Valued Customers of Essential Starr,

We are delighted to share some exciting news! Effective October 21, 2025, the Essential Starr product line — including our beloved blends and essential oils — is joining forces with Lavender Hill Botanicals, part of Windy Hill Farms, owned by the wonderful Chris and Katie Miller family in the beautiful Amish countryside of Pennsylvania.

After 30 years of creating, formulating, teaching, and sharing the gifts of nature through Essential Starr, it brings me great joy to see these products continue to blossom in such loving and capable hands. When I met Katie earlier this year and visited her stunning 80-acre lavender farm, I was immediately touched by her passion, her craftsmanship, and her beautifully curated farm shop filled with lavender treasures.

As we spoke, it became clear that our visions were aligned — to share the healing power and joy of essential oils with integrity, purity, and heart. Together, we saw how Lavender Hill Botanicals could expand to include many of the signature blends you've come to love from Essential Starr, alongside Katie's exquisite lavender creations.

This transition feels perfectly timed — arriving with the season of harvest and light, coinciding with Diwali, the Indian Festival of Lights. It's a beautiful symbol of illumination and new beginnings, which has always been at the heart of my work with essential oils.

Please know that I'm not going away. I will continue to collaborate with Katie during this transition, ensuring that our formulas maintain their quality, integrity, and energetic signature. I will also remain available for essential oil consultations and guidance, continuing to share my 30+ years of aromatic and herbal experience.

The Essential Starr 5ml essential oils will still carry the familiar label, while the blended products will now appear under Lavender Hill Botanicals — the perfect evolution of our shared vision for natural beauty and holistic wellness.

Thank you, dear friends, for your years of loyalty, inspiration, and trust. We look forward to seeing you continue your aromatic journey with Lavender Hill Botanicals — where the legacy of Essential Starr will shine on in new light.

With warmth and gratitude,

Patricia Starr, LMT, RA, SET, SCI

Founder, Essential Starr

📱 941-735-9266

"Where the Essence of Nature Continues to Bloom"
— Lavender Hill Botanicals & Essential Starr Partnership
Lavender -- New Harvest Time

Lavender -- New Harvest Time

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The time of its harvest is soon upon us in the beautiful mountains of Provence 

    The mystery and story of Lavender and its favorite companion (in the wild)  Helichrysum

"Ahhhh… the bountiful Lavender – that fills our being with the color of amethyst.. walking among these powerful plants, with bees buzzing in their melodious temple….. steady buzz that takes you deep into meditation.  The color purple ignites my pineal, the fragrance drifts up through my nostrils… a deep sense of peace overwhelms me, a smile begins to curl in the corner of my mouth, my eyes begin to shine with the peace and the glory of this amazing experience.  The plants surround me, hold me in their trance, I am lifted up from my troubles, I dance among the frequencies of spirit and light,, the bees take me there…  I am at one with nature."

     Late June, Early July.... the Harvesting begins in the French Alps... the birth of the popular industry in the early 20th century through harvesting the wild Lavender, gradually supplanted by selection, cultivation, and agriculture... increasing demand for Lavender from Grasse, a major center of perfume production.   

     A whole culture grew and developed cutting, harvesting and distilling the plants and its properties. In the 1930's, its cousin the first Lavandin crops emerged and doubled the production albeit a hybrid, the Fine True Lavender still remained for its higher quality of oil. 

Now, today, Lavender is grown all over the world, with Lavender festivals held in Wisconsin, Washington, Oregon, California, Egypt, Portugal, Spain, Bulgaria, England -- over 41 different main varieties grown from deep blue-purple to red, to pink to white... All with their unique fragrance and growing idiosyncracies. 

In the 18th century, the recommendation for the use of Lavender were for: 

  • Brain Disease  10 - 12 drop
  • Hysterical Mood Swings and vertigo 4 - 5 drops on an empty stomach,
  • Migraines and to calm an upset stomach - 4 - 5 drops,
  • Arthritis, paralysis and spasms:  Add to St. Johns Wort Oil.  

Fill small bags with Lavender to perfume clothes and laundry and to keep moths away.

Lavender prefers the higher altitude,  dry.. sorry Florida. dampness is not Lavender's friend  (it doesn't like her feet wet)

A word of caution: 
the quality can vary so much, and generally commercial products use a synthetic lavender.. so if the label says "fragrance".. do not trust it.  Synthetic fragrances are generally toxic and can contribute to allergies. 

Because Lavender is so popular, it is not uncommon for the lavender you buy off the shelf in a grocery store, will not be of the finest therapeutic quality.   Check to see their quality.. check the botanical name (Lavendula Angustifolia vera - very high grade).  More lavender is sold out of France than it produces... so know your distiller.  Also, low and slow yields some of the best quality

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