Distilling Essential Oils

How to make essential oils at home? Learn distilling oils and hydrosols Step-by-Step

The practical guide to learn how to make essential oils and hydrosols at home

If you want to know how to make essential oils at home in high quality, read our book The Essential Oil Maker’s Handbook about the art of distillation:

• What means essential oil?
• How to make essential oils at home? How to make your own hydrosols at home? How to extract essential oil from lavender, roses,rosemary,..?
• The Distillation – an explicit instruction
• Producing essential oils and hydrosols by yourself – the still. How to make an essential oil still?
• Separating the essential oil from the hydrosol
• A lot of recipes to distill essential oils and hydrosols and for their application – What are the uses of essential oils? What is hydrosol water used for?

Harvesting and preparing the plant

To get essential oils and strong hydrolates, you have to harvest the plant at the perfect point of time and to prepare the cropped plant for the distillation. The qualitity of the plant, the point of time of the harvest and the preparation of the plant are the basis for a successful oil distillation. From wrong cropped plants and false crushed material you would never get essential oil with high quality or amount. In the book you find an detailed description and a lot of recipes for the distillation of essential oils and hydrosols.

The Distillation

In the book you obtain exlicit instructions about the essential oil and hydrosol distillation: How much water should you fill in the still? How much plant material should you put into the still in proportion to the water? What about the distilling speed? Which collecting vessel do you need? Further answers you find also in our Workshop-Courses and online-Classes.

How to make essential oils at home – the Still

What is the best construction of an essential oil water steam still for technical reasons? What is the still Leonardo? Which material can you use? How can I build my own still or how can I identify a functioning still? Equal if you want to counstruct your own still or if you want to buy one, here you will get the essential Know-How, to receive your perfect water-steam-still for your own essential oils and hydrosols.

Separating the essential oil

Exact description of the separating procedure: When can you separate the oil from the hydrosol? Which equipment do you need? Where and how long can you store the essential oils and hydrosols?

Recipes

A lot of recipes for homemade essential oils and hydrosols (rose, lavender, rosemary, …) as soon as exact specifications in the prescriptions for Creams, Soaps, Perfumes, Antiperspirants,…. So you are able to produce the different items at home by yourself.