Unless you have special (expensive!) equipment, it's virtually impossible to extract the essential oils from lavender or any other plant. And you'd need acres and acres of lavender to make it worth you while anyway.
If you cram as many flowers and leaves into saucepan as you can squeeze in, add some water and simmer with the lid on, you might be lucky enough to see a few droplets of the oil appearing on top of the water. These can be sucked off with an eyedropper and bottled, but if you get a teaspoonful you'd be doing remarkably well.
You could, of course, make a tea of the flowers, and bottle it as Lavender Water. Some preservative would need to be added, such as Vitamin C or benzoin. You could also infuse the flowers in a carrier oil and keep it for external use only for a couple of months. Or make lavender vinegar for culinary or external use, which would keep indefinitely.
Frankly, I think you'd be better off drying the lavender to make smudge bundles, or turning it into incense, or drying the flowers in little sachets. The English lavender is the one preferred for all purposes.
If you cram as many flowers and leaves into saucepan as you can squeeze in, add some water and simmer with the lid on, you might be lucky enough to see a few droplets of the oil appearing on top of the water. These can be sucked off with an eyedropper and bottled, but if you get a teaspoonful you'd be doing remarkably well.
You could, of course, make a tea of the flowers, and bottle it as Lavender Water. Some preservative would need to be added, such as Vitamin C or benzoin. You could also infuse the flowers in a carrier oil and keep it for external use only for a couple of months. Or make lavender vinegar for culinary or external use, which would keep indefinitely.
Frankly, I think you'd be better off drying the lavender to make smudge bundles, or turning it into incense, or drying the flowers in little sachets. The English lavender is the one preferred for all purposes.