Distilling Essential Oils

Homemade Essential Oil Distillation

Learn to make your own essential oils and hydrosols at home

On the site Distilling Essential Oils you find all the Know How to produce herbal waters and oils from dried herbs, blossoms, rosemary, lavender, roses,…by your own Homemade Essential Oil Distillation. We offer online-courses and workshops about the oil distillation. In our Shop you find all for the Homemade Essential Oil Distillation – from the copper water steam distillation until the book. Further we have specialist questions, a forum with recipes and one for discussions, videos and photos.

Workshop Classes – Make your own essential oil and hydrosol

In our Workshop-Classes your distill serveral essential oils from herbs and other plants by your own with your own still (Leonardo-still), so you are able to make all steps of an oil and hydrosol destillation by your own. Of course you learn to separate the oil from the floral water. Within the workshop you prepare a soap, massage oil and bath salt with the distilled oils and hydrosols.

Online-Course: Learn all about the Homemade Essential Oil Distillation

These courses about essential oils and hydrosols you can study at your own speed, completely independent of your location. We host a complete online distilling-course, there you learn every step of how to make homemade oil and hydrosol. Additionally we offer short videos, which explain separate steps of the distillation of essential oils and hydrosols.

Books explaining the homemade distillation of essential oils and hydrosols

If you want to learn how to make homemade essential oils and hydrosols from herbs, blossoms, roots,… you will find all steps in our book The Essential Oil Maker’s Handbook – from harvesting and preparing the plants, the distillation, instructions for constructing essential oil stills, separating the oil from the hydrosol – it is explained very practially so that you can really start to work with this guide. You will find also a lot of recipes for processing the oils and waters to perfumes, soaps, shower gel, massage oils…

Stills and other equipment

In our shop you find the entire equipment which is necessary for home distillers: small copper stills, bottles, books, pipettes. We have only selected branded items, our stills are exclusively manufactured for us.

Know-How

How to make essential oils and hydrosols by yourself? In addition to the equipment you need also know-how. You can use our forums (specialist questions, recipes, discussion) free and without registration. Notice also our 6 rules for constructing or buying an oil still. In the short instruction you learn to become a home distiller in five simple steps. Further you find Videos and Photos for the production process and for the yield of essential oil.