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Summary: A mint oil can be made by combining mint leaves with a carrier oil in a dark jar that can be stored for awhile. Discover how corn starch can be used to help oil to pick up a with help from the creator of a line of aromatherapy products in this free video on making mint oil.
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
"Making a mint essential oil is really easy, and it has a lot of great properties. Mint is both cooling and warming so you could make a mint essential oil, and use it in some corn starch to make a dusting powder. In the summer time which is just really nice to help little kids and their prickly heat, and just feel more comfortable going to sleep. What you have to do is just take some mint leaves it doesn't matter which kind, although I would recommend mint or spearmint. Chocolate mint might work, but probably make you want to just eat chocolate. And fill the jar, a dark jar because the sunlight breaks down the oils in a clear jar, and back it full of the mint. You want to stuff it down there until you have the whole jar filled, and then take a carrier oil like vegetable oil, olive oil, or sweet almond oil and fill the jar completely. And the oil will pull the oils out of the mint leaves, and it will infuse into the carrier oil making an essential oil. Then you can use a couple of drops of it in some corn starch let it sit for a day or so the corn starch picks up the fragrance. And use a make up brush, and just baste your babies with it. Or use it in a bath salt or cotton ball and put it under a pillow, and it is a great fragrance. And that is how easy it is to make mint essential oil."
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pkiler said
on 9/8/2009 As others have said, this is an Infusion oil, and *NOT* an Essential oil. *AND* and essential oil should not be used on skin without being diluted in a carrier oil. This Video is DISINFORMATION and should be pulled down, and redone when the proper terminology has been used.
pandorawilde said
on 9/7/2009 This is NOT an essential oil. This is an infused oil. Mint essential oil is made in a still ONLY from the plant, never with another oil added. It has also not been proven that essential oils are safe for babies and children, as this woman recommends. This entire video is scientifically inaccurate and should not be believed, except that she made an infused oil, because that is all she did in this video. Nearly all the other information in the video is inaccurate.
tuesdaysmith said
on 9/7/2009 This is a mint INFUSED oil, completely different from an essential oil. Mint essential oil is steam distilled from mint leaves and stems, not infused into a carrier oil. I'm surprised that someone who claims to be in the natural living business for over 15 years would not know the difference between an infused oil and an essential oil.