Lavender Essential Oil
Posted on 11 September 2010
How to of lavender oil?
Can I use olive oil to make it, or Vadka? Which have a stronger odor, keep longer and be safe to use in soaps and lotions?
Essential oils are not the same as infused oils or tinctures, which are both of you to ask. You are very different products, not to be confused. except with a few exceptions, essential oil steam from plant parts (roots, flowers, leaves, etc.) distilled. You can not just do at home. This and this is only one essential oil. You can have a lavender oil infused with lavender flowers soaking in oil for a few weeks. Maybe you want to replace then through the new flowers and let sit for a few weeks. You can use olive oil, but personally would I do not. The color is icky mixed with other plants as green, and the scent is too strong. There are many carrier oils to choose from, but I suggest you go somewhere like a Whole Foods or a local health food store and check out their beauty sections for pure oils, oils, or the section with the food. Look at the colors, and open it if you can, to see how they smell. There are also a lot of information online, you may want to see some of the research must only which oils your best. You can also infused lavender alcohol (a tincture), found by soaking fresh lavender flowers of the highest proof alcohol. They make it in the same Way that you would make the basic oil infused lavender. If you're looking for something fragrance soaps and lotions, you would probably be better off buying lavender oil. Lavender tincture smells more like alcohol than lavender and lavender infused oil might smell like lavender, but it would take much trial and error with quantities and types of oil. If you are willing to spend money and time to experiment, make infused oils is really fun and there are almost limitless possibilities of what they can do and what it can be used.
Experiment #1: Making an essential oil
No responses yet. You could be the first!