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How To Make Essential Oils At Home | Homesteading Skills What You’ll Need: Flowers or plant parts to extract (in this case rose petals) 120-proof vodka... View MoreHow To Make Essential Oils At Home | Homesteading Skills What You’ll Need: Flowers or plant parts to extract (in this case rose petals) 120-proof vodka Clear quart glass jar with a lid Small dark-colored bottle Porcelain-coated strainer Small glass bowl Tight-weave cheesecloth A spoon and medicine dropper Step 1: Prepare Your Choice of Plant You can use any kind of plant, from herbs, scented flowers, to fruits. It all depends on the plant essence you want to be extracted. In this tutorial, we will be using roses. The more homegrown roses you have, the better. You’ll need pounds and pounds of plant material to make a small amount of essence. Prepare the roses by using a dehydrator to evaporate their natural water content. The roses will be ready when they start to wilt. Step 2: Prepare the Jar Prepare jars and fill them with rose petals. Pour vodka into the jar until the petals are submerged. Place the jar in a dark corner of the kitchen cupboard where it can sit undisturbed at room temperature. About three times a day, take the jar out and give it a good shake for several minutes. Repeat daily until you see the roses losing color, which could take up to a weeks Step 3: Straining Vodka Solution Wearing protective gloves, take out the jar and prepare to strain. Strain out the plant material from the vodka by using a porcelain-coated strainer. Be careful not to spill any amount of liquid. Shake the roses into the cheesecloth and squeeze it out by hand to get every last bit of vodka out. By this time, the vodka will smell terrible but don’t worry, that’s normal. Step 4: Repeat Soaking Process Using the same vodka, repeat the rose soaking method several more times with a new batch of rose petals. Make sure not to waste vodka when straining. If needed, you can add a little more vodka to make sure the rose petals are submerged. The more you do this, you will be able to extract more of the essential oils. Step 5: Storing Vodka Solution Once you’re done with the rose soaking, strain as usual. But this time, return the vodka into the quart glass and seal it. Put it in the dark corner of the cupboard again, leaving it undisturbed for a day or two. By this time, you will see some separation starting to occur. The vodka will separate from the essential oils and other plant matter. You are here: Home / Projects / Homemade Products / How To Make Essential Oils At Home | Homesteading Skills How To Make Essential Oils At Home | Homesteading Skills Reading Time: 6 minutes By Jayson Matthews 32 Comments Learn how to make essential oils at home and discover more amazing benefits you can get from these natural wonders. We will give you a thorough guide plus the best tips and tricks in making essential oils at home using dried herbs and other plants. We will be extracting the essence of your favorite herbs and flowers right in the comfort of your kitchen! In this article: How to Make Essential Oils What You Need to Know When Making Essential Oils Mood-Boosting Essential Oils 5 Ways to Use Essential Oils RELATED: The Homesteader’s Secret Essential Thieves Oil Recipe Learn How to Make Essential Oils Like a True Homesteader Click here to jump to the infographic. How to Make Essential Oils There are three methods to get essential oils. These are extraction, distillation, and expression. The distillation process is the most complicated. It requires specialized equipment and careful monitoring. As for the expression method, the product is not usually classified as an essential oil. This leaves us with the extraction method. In this tutorial, we will try rose essential oil-making, so let’s get started! What You’ll Need: Flowers or plant parts to extract (in this case rose petals) 120-proof vodka Clear quart glass jar with a lid Small dark-colored bottle Porcelain-coated strainer Small glass bowl Tight-weave cheesecloth A spoon and medicine dropper Step 1: Prepare Your Choice of Plant You can use any kind of plant, from herbs, scented flowers, to fruits. It all depends on the plant essence you want to be extracted. In this tutorial, we will be using roses. The more homegrown roses you have, the better. You’ll need pounds and pounds of plant material to make a small amount of essence. Prepare the roses by using a dehydrator to evaporate their natural water content. The roses will be ready when they start to wilt. Step 2: Prepare the Jar Prepare jars and fill them with rose petals. Pour vodka into the jar until the petals are submerged. Place the jar in a dark corner of the kitchen cupboard where it can sit undisturbed at room temperature. About three times a day, take the jar out and give it a good shake for several minutes. Repeat daily until you see the roses losing color, which could take up to a week. RELATED: Homemade Air Freshener with Essential Oils Step 3: Straining Vodka Solution Wearing protective gloves, take out the jar and prepare to strain. Strain out the plant material from the vodka by using a porcelain-coated strainer. Be careful not to spill any amount of liquid. Shake the roses into the cheesecloth and squeeze it out by hand to get every last bit of vodka out. By this time, the vodka will smell terrible but don’t worry, that’s normal. Step 4: Repeat Soaking Process Using the same vodka, repeat the rose soaking method several more times with a new batch of rose petals. Make sure not to waste vodka when straining. If needed, you can add a little more vodka to make sure the rose petals are submerged. The more you do this, you will be able to extract more of the essential oils. Step 5: Storing Vodka Solution Once you’re done with the rose soaking, strain as usual. But this time, return the vodka into the quart glass and seal it. Put it in the dark corner of the cupboard again, leaving it undisturbed for a day or two. By this time, you will see some separation starting to occur. The vodka will separate from the essential oils and other plant matter. Step 6: Freeze Solution Place the jar in the freezer. This is the cool part–vodka does not freeze. So, only the essential oils and other plant materials will solidify. Step 7: Strain Solution Now, you will have to move fast with extra caution before the essential oil melts. You will need a piece of cheesecloth laid inside a glass bowl. Use another piece of cheesecloth secured around a clear canning jar so it dips inside the neck. You will also need another small glass bowl and a small dark bottle which will hold the essential oil. Have a spoon and dropper ready as well. Step 8: Harvest Essential Oils Remove the jar from the freezer. Skim the gunky plant material off the vodka and place it on top of the cheesecloth laid inside the bowl. Pour the vodka into the other glass jar with the loose cheesecloth. Move quickly to pick out any frozen bits using a dropper and place them inside the small dark bottle. The frozen bits are the essential oils

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