
Explore 12 techniques to extract essential oils from flowers, herbs, and aromatic substances, and create your own essential or infused products at home.
Trace the history of essential oil production from ancient uses for healing and fragrance 5000 years ago to aromatherapy, noting distillation advances and the shift from natural to synthetic fragrances.
Learn the cold pressing method for citrus essential oils, using chopped peels with water or oil to produce waxy, opaque oils; note sun exposure is not recommended, unlike steam distillation.
Discover how steam distillation gently extracts plant oils, even from citrus, via a condenser, producing a chemical-free distillate with oil atop the hydro sol.
Learn a traditional steam distillation method at home to extract rose essential oil, assembling a condenser setup with ice and an inverted lid, and produce a rose spray.
Learn to create a personal essential oil perfume using the cold infusion method with a carrier oil and notes like lily, jasmine, and lang lang.
Learn the pan method hot extraction to make clove infused oil using a carrier oil, with steps for preparing materials, freshness testing, controlled heating, and proper storage.
Extract essential oils by layering petals on fat, repeating for one to two months, then dissolve the saturated fat in alcohol to make a perfume or soap base.
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Step Inside the Wonderful World of Making Your Own Aromatherapy Essential OIls At Home
In this course you will learn 12 different extraction methods to create your own essential oils and essential oil products at home.
We will cover water extraction, the cold pressed method, Cold oil extraction, hot oil extraction, sugar extraction, something called enfleurage and also give you a brief overview of how you can use a professional kit that you can buy online to distill like the professionals at home.
As well as briefly covering the history of essential oil production I will show you how to make 12 different products for everyday use at home, perfumes, massage oils, home cleaning materials, furniture oil, food dressings, fruit cordials, something useful that you can use in your everyday life using each of the extraction methods.
If you want to be certain that the oils and hydrosols you're using are natural and free of chemicals it's very simple to make them yourself, an art that has long been all forgotten. Each lecture comes with a list of materials that you will need and instructions of how to make your essential oil products in a step by step process .
Working with nature's healing garden is our birthright and in this course you will learn methods that are simple and easy to use without great expense, so step inside and enjoy the course.
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