Take a medium sized pot and get a lid that is rounded so you can turn it upside down over the opening. Turn a bowl upside down on the inside of the pot. Add water to less than the height of the overturned bowl. Place a bowl on the overturned bowl so it is opened upwards.
turn on the heat and begin heating the water. Add the flowers and/ or herbs to the water. Add ice to the overturned lid. As the scent enriched vapors begins to reach the boiling point the volatiles will evaporate first, They will hit the chilled cover with the ice in it and condense, run down on the overturned cover and drip into the upright bowl under the cover. You only have a few drops of volatiles in the pan. It is amazingly quick to extract them. If you wait too long it will water down your essential oils and you’ll have to do the process all over with the stuff you already extracted. It’s easy, It’s cheap and it’s quick. .
Take a medium sized pot and get a lid that is rounded so you can turn it upside down over the opening. Turn a bowl upside down on the inside of the pot. Add water to less than the height of the overturned bowl. Place a bowl on the overturned bowl so it is opened upwards.
turn on the heat and begin heating the water. Add the flowers and/ or herbs to the water. Add ice to the overturned lid. As the scent enriched vapors begins to reach the boiling point the volatiles will evaporate first, They will hit the chilled cover with the ice in it and condense, run down on the overturned cover and drip into the upright bowl under the cover. You only have a few drops of volatiles in the pan. It is amazingly quick to extract them. If you wait too long it will water down your essential oils and you’ll have to do the process all over with the stuff you already extracted. It’s easy, It’s cheap and it’s quick. .
Comment by VINCE — October 9, 2009 @ 4:27 pm