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Summary: Making oils means packing oil with the materials for a specific , such as lavender wood chips, in a dark jar. Discover how the creation of oils can take a few months with help from the creator of a line of aromatherapy products in this free video on making oils.
Lauren Roy has been in the natural living business for about 15 years. She has created a line of aromatherapy products to deal with different health and well-being issues in a natural...read more
"Essential oils are concentrated oils that are infused from plant material, you can make them yourself very easily. You take a product, you know this is going to be a grapefruit oil and you pack it very tightly into a dark jar. Then you take the, whatever carrier oil you want to use. You can use vegetable oil or sweet almond oil is really good and usually a carrier for essential oils. And fill it to the brim, packed really tightly, it takes an awful lot of plant material to make just a very tiny amount of essential oil. You can use lavender wood chips or sandalwood wood chips and pack it really tightly. It takes a long time, probably a couple of months before your essential oil is ready and your carrier oil is infused with a fragrance. Sometimes with sandalwood chips, it may even take it five years, before you can get a little bit of sandalwood oil for yourself. But it's fun and it's worth the effort. Put it in a cool dark place, let it sit for a couple of months, the longer, the stronger. Keep it in a cool place so the oil doesn't go rancid. And you can use anything from pine needles to wood chips to herbs, flowers and get the essential oil that you want. You can use that essential oil and more carrier oil to make perfumed oils, bath salts, and even mix and match them for different aromatherapy products. You can use them in soaps and a lot of other things. And that's how you make essential oils."
eHow Article: How to Make Your Own Oils
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katelynislegend said
on 9/20/2009 great video! however, i have a few questions, and your videos are very informative and you seem very experienced, so if you wouldn't mind helping me out if you know the answers, i would be very grateful. i've read in a few different articles that essential can be made by heating the herbs/fruit/flowers and the oil in a crockpot on low heat, or by cooking them on the stove. is this wrong? you said that the oil would go rancid in your video if it was left in the sun, so by making it this way, would it be ruined? can herbs/fruit be mixed together in one bottle? like for example, can put orange AND lemon peels in one bottle? i've also heard that it is best to "bruise" the herbs or flowers by putting them in a baggie, and then beating them with a hammer? does this help?
thanks!
pkiler said
on 9/19/2009 No, no, no. Essential oils are NOT "concentrated ois that are infused from plant material".
What about essential oils do you not understand...?
We've tried to be kind, and nice, but you are blatantly erroneous.
It's time to complain to the higher authorities about your flgrant disregard for the truth.
tuesdaysmith said
on 9/7/2009 No, no, no. Essential oils are NOT "concentrated ois that are infused from plant material". With few exceptions, essential oils are STEAM DISTILLED from plants. Steam distilled, not infused! This is a video about making infused oils, not essential oils. Infused oils are not used in aromatherapy, essential ois are.