How to make Lavender Salt at home

It is incredibly easy to make lavender salt, and it’s a wonderful addition to your pantry or a classy homemade gift.

 The lavender flowers should be dried, and the easiest way to do that is to pick or cut some stems and leave them in a vase (with no water) for about a week. It’s OK if they have a few flowers, as the flowers will dry up and fall off. If you don’t have lavender growing nor a generous friend with a patch of it, you can, of course, buy some dried lavender to make the salt.

Once dried, remove the little lavender pods from the stems – they will come off easily if you slide your fingers along the stems. Don’t worry if there are a few little brown pieces or what have you.

Measure out about 1 tablespoon of lavender and 1/2 cup of kosher or sea salt and grind them a together with spice grinder, coffee grinder, or mortar and pestle. Grinding everything together will release the oils of the lavender and rub everything on to the salt.

If you prefer coarser salt, then I recommend grinding the lavender pods with about 1 or 2 tablespoons of the kosher or sea salt, then stirring in the remaining, coarse salt to the mix.
Decant to a jar or container (I got the cute tins in the top picture HERE)

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