What are some good uses for both fresh lavendar and fresh mint?

If added to a bath, do you just throw in a few sprigs, or do you cut the leaves to release the scent? Any other ways to get the scents into my home?

What are some good uses for both fresh lavendar and fresh mint?
believe it or not, lavender %26amp; fresh mint together make excellent tea as well as a fabulous vinegarette for a spring salad with citrus finishes.





if you add it to a bath, you can rub the two together under water between your hands to release the essential oils, or put it in a small muslin cloth bag %26amp; allow it to infuse under water.





the combination also makes a great essential oil on its own when mixed with a base of grapeseed, almond or even extra-virgin olive oil if placed in a dark bottle %26amp; allowed to slowly infuse into the oil over a span of two weeks to a month. (the longer - the more potent.)
Reply:To use in the bath, put the lavendar flowers / mint leaves in a loosely woven cotton bag or inside a nylon stocking so it becomes like a tea bag and doesn't make a mess. You can mix the two and even add a very little oatmeal because it makes your skin extra soft.





You can also set the lavendar and/or mint in bowls like potpourri.





Lavendar flowers are good sprinkled on cookies, in breads, stews and gravies.





Mint is good in hot and cold drinks.
Reply:my sister makes a wonderful lavender cookie. its like a sugar cookie with lavender in it. it is tasty %26amp; healthy. She said the cookies relax you %26amp; help you sleep.
Reply:You can bruise both fresh lavendar and mint and add them to hot baths.





You can pick bunches of lavendar and mint and put them in vases like flowers, or along with flowers.





You can grow them indoors in pots.





You can also use them in cooking. An easy mint sauce is to chop up several cups of fresh mint leaves and store them in a jar filled with honey. When ready to use, take a large spoonful of mint-honey mixture and mix it with vinegar until you get a flavour and consistency that you like. This will keep virtually forever in the pantry.





You can also make a lavender honey by infusing honey with lavender, then straining out the lavendar before sealing the jar.
Reply:you can boil the lavendar in a pot and it will infuse the scent throughout the house.