Essentail oils capture a plant’s aromatic scent or flavour.
They’re extracted from plant leaves, flowers, roots and bark using distillation or a cold press method. Such as peppermint oil, lavender oil, cinnamon bark oil,clove bud oil and so on.
If they’re made using a chemical process, oils cannot be considered true essential oils.
How to make essential oils at home
Producing a true essential oil involves extracting the oil from the flower via steam distilling. This is usually done on an industrial scale.
Although smaller hobby kits are available, it’s a process that requires caution (due to the combination of heat and pressure), thorough preparation and a sizeable dose of patience.
You’ll also need access to lots of the purple flowering blooms – it takes a lot of flowers to produce even a small amount of essential oil.
