Making Essential Oils at Home with My DIY Distiller

Making Essential Oils at Home with My DIY Distiller - Mint Oil & Hydrosol

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Today I'm demonstrating how I extract essential oil using my homemade water distiller that I featured in a video a couple years ago. Using basic distillation and a lot of fresh mint leaves, I will end up with some pure mint extract and a lot of mint hydrosol.
Original Distiller Build Video:
• DIY Water Distiller (H...
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Stuff used in this video:
Glass Separating Funnel w/ Stand
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Amber Eye-dropper Bottles
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1-Gallon Glass Jug
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00:00 - Intro
01:22 - Pressure Cooker
02:23 - Cooling Coil
03:38 - Distillation
05:10 - Batch 2
05:53 - Oil Separating
07:12 - Mint Hydrosol
08:33 - Conclusion
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@jamescady723 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating. Very simple and straight-forward. Very helpful! I read that thyme hydrosol is a good antimicrobial, great for cleaning.

@averagejoesmiling456 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting, Great Lakes! I thought this would be quite complicated, but it's actually much simpler than imagined.

@GreatLakesPrepping 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Joe. A bit resource and time-consuming, but otherwise pretty simple in principle.

@MattTransit 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant. Thanks for sharing that pressure cooker distillation information. Back in the early '80's I tried making a still using a pressure cooker and some copper tubing. I made what I thought was a decent corn mash a week or so before putting it in the cooker. It didn't work out too well. It didn't explode or anything like that, my fermented mash mixture simply stunk up the house in the middle of Summer. My folks and sisters weren't too pleased.

@laurenragle5228 3 ай бұрын

I'm an organic chemist and in my lab, we use a "fancy" steam distillation set up with lemon peels to extract lemon essential oil (limonene). I've read some cool benefits of lemon hydrosol, too. Anyway, you might want to play with lemon peels in your set up, since you might be using the rest of the lemon in cooking. 😊

@GreatLakesPrepping 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Lauren, lemon is definitely one I've thought about trying. I bet you all have some awesome equipment to work with!