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Hello, I hope You are well. A question: I distilled oregano, and I obtained essential oil in several containers. I Left it in the containers for more that a month and as can be seed in the photography, there are many drops of the oil disperse in the bottle, Why is this happening? Thanks You very much for your attention.
The oil drops stick on the wall because of adhesive forces and surface tension effects. Just strongly twist the bottle along its
vertical axis back and forth, as thoroughly described in our book.
Having said that, in general, colored oil bubbles look much bigger than they are, if they do not flow up to the top after twisting. These bubbles are even too small to be soaked up by a syringe with attached hypodermic needle.
I am going to buy your book. But I heard you also sell stills (for
making essential oils). I will need to buy one. So I found your website
and I see pictures of the stills that you sell and they are made of
copper. I have a feeling that maybe it would be better to have neutral
components, like glass, could the copper make a copper residue in the
oil that we absorb and it would make us have too much copper in our
body? Maybe my question does not make sense, because I really don't know
much on the subject. So maybe you could help understand more about the
use of copper in the stills. But if you do answer this in your book,
then just forget my question, because I will buy your book. Thank you
very much in advance.
In principle you're right, but centuries of distilling essential oils
have shown, copper doesn't harm at all. Moreover the opposite is
true, this material has a positive effect on the distillate. But why is
it nowadays more common to use steel? For the simple reason, it became
much cheaper to weld steel and the material also became cheaper than
copper in the scope of the time.
is only toxic for mold and similar microorganisms.
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Hello, how are you? Check out the video on YouTube dated January 12, , where 210 g of rosemary and
290 g of chamomile were distilled. My doubts are the following: why were those two plants distilled? Can rosemary be distilled with another plant? Best regards, Emerita
Yes, in fact all plant materials can be mixed, it just depends on your personal "taste" if the mixture fits or not. Rosemary is different however, this material helps other materials to lose their essential oil. Thus, the combination of chamomile and rosemary results in a higher yield of oil than the sum of both yields, if distilled separately.
Hello how are you, a question: geranium was distilled and the color of the essential oil was green and it remained that color for several days, then the bottle was opened and it turned red. Why did this color change occur? Maintains
the properties of essential oil? It can be used? Thank you very much in advance for the responses and your time. Saludos cordiales
Of course, oxidation due to air contact could be a reason. Although, neither I've ever recognized an effect like this, nor I did find a description in literature or the like. We received green geranium oil already, but it didn't turn pink after a while. Having said that, there are so many different varieties of scent geranium out there, that I do not wonder if the oils differ not only in smell, but also in color.
Just to be sure: it could not be the case that the content formed foam while cooking and the color is in fact an impurity caused by this foam?
ad 1) At room temperature if there was an oil layer on the top. In this case the hydrosol is durable, even if the oil layer has been removed.
ad 2) Yes, since this is distillable, you can smell it in the distillate. Thus, take chlorine free tab water or groundwater instead. Note: all dissolved minerals, salts, and lime do not evaporate, thus you will end up with purified distilled water, even if the water was not drinkable before distillation. Any microorganisms are no problem for the same reason.
ad 3) Yes, if you use water. In case of alcohol it's an alcoholic spirit.
ad 4) These values you can find in our book "The Essential Oil Maker's Handbook"
Hello, first I want to congratulate you for your website, it is very educational, I have learned a lot about plant distillation, especially in the discussion part with the questions and answers. My question is as follows: 1) to distill geranium should I use it fresh or dry? 2) should I cut it finely? In my country there are some plants that do not flower, for example mint and rosemary (this last plant I only found a wild rosemary, which they commonly call criollo, which if it flourishes) 3) these plants, even if they are have not flowers, can obtain a high yield of essential oil?
Thank you in advance, regards, Emerita
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