How to Make Essential Cinnamon Oil with Ease

If you love the smell of cinnamon then you’ll enjoy essential cinnamon oil. Essential oils are so handy to have around the house, they are useful for cleaning, in oil burners and even as perfumes. It is commonly believed that it is a difficult process to extract essential oils, when in fact it can be done quite simply in the home. Cinnamon oil is one of my favorites and can be used in potpourri mixes, and used on table center pieces. The good news is cinnamon oil is such a delightful smell and ludicrously easy to make. Use this step by step tutorial to learn how to make essential Cinnamon oil.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 600 ml airtight glass jar
• 300ml carrier oil, eg almond
• ¾ cup crushed cinnamon sticks
• Piece of muslin
• Glass bowl
• Dark airtight glass jar for storage

1. Place the carrier oil and cinnamon in a glass cooking pan. Set on the heat source at medium-high temperature. Bring the oil to full heat for 15 minutes.

2. Turn off the heat source. Remove the pan from the stove. Allow the carrier oil and cinnamon to cool to room temperature.

3. Place your carrier oil into the wide necked glass jar and add around a third of the crushed cinnamon. Put the rest in an airtight container for use later in the process of making essential cinnamon oil.

4. Place the lid on the jar and make sure it on tight, you don't want cinnamon oil all over your kitchen! Give the jar a good shake to mix the spices into the oil and make a suspension.

5. The jar now needs to sit on a sunny windowsill or in a warm spot, for 48 hours. Every twelve hours, give the jar a good shake, to prevent the cinnamon from falling out of the suspension.

6. After 48 hours, the cinnamon oil needs to be strained through the muslin by placing it over the glass bowl, and pouring the oil through it. The cinnamon which is collected then needs to be squeezed in the muslin to push out as much oil as possible. Simply twist the muslin into a little package like a pudding and keep twisting and squeezing until no more oil comes out, or your hands can't do anymore.

7. The carrier oil now needs to go into the wide necked jar, and another third of the cinnamon sticks you crushed a couple of days ago needs to go in.

8. Repeat steps two to five until you have the strength of aroma you are after. Then instead of putting the cinnamon oil back in the wide necked jar, it can be put in the dark glass jar after it has been strained. Lid it tightly and store it in a cool dark place.

Tips & Warnings

• If you don't have a 600ml jar, simply change the ratios of your ingredients to match the size of the jar. For example, if you have a 900 ml jar, you would need to use 450ml of carrier oil and a cup of crushed cinnamon.
• You may need to prepare more or less cinnamon, depending on how strong you want your oil.

Resources

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[nanamusicgirl]

on 10/6/2009 Very good job on making essential oil!!!!!
5 stars!

[ruf1950]

on 9/28/2009 Great job! 5*****

[rcryder]

on 9/25/2009 THIS IS SO COOL. VERY GOOD ARTICLE. 5*'S