Preservative activity of lavender hydrosols in moisturizing body gels

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lam.12346/pdf

Someone
posted this on the subreddit DIYbeauty and I thought I’d share it here.
It’s an interesting read. I can imagine all the “natural” fanatics
having a field day over this. Finally they won’t have to use those
“toxic” preservatives anymore. I for one would much rather use a
preservative that’s been proven to be safe and work instead of chancing
it on something that might work.

However if more studies are done
and this is found to be true, we might be able to decrease the % of
preservatives. But ugh, the thought of of smelling like lavender makes
me cringe.