ANTIBACTERIAL PROPERTIES OF COMMERCIAL LAVENDER ESSENTIAL OIL AGAINST SOME GRAM-POSITIVE AND GRAMNEGATIVE BACTERIA

Abstract

Lavender essential oil (EO) has been used both cosmetically and therapeutically for centuries (Cavanagh and Wilkinson, 2002). The lavender essential oil has been used as an anxiolytic drug, a mood stabilizer, a sedative, spasmolytic, antihypertensive, antimicrobial, and analgesic agent as well as a wound healing accelerator (Sasannejad et al., 2012). Several studies have investigated the antinociceptive, immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties of compounds found in lavender essential oil (Silva et al., 2015). It is traditionally used in herbal medicine to relieve stress and anxiety confirmed by positive results in models of anxiety and depression using some animal and clinical studies (López et al., 2017).