How do you make your own essential/ infused oil

[flower]

Hello Ladies,

Do you use water/ oil? if oil which type?

How do you prepare yours?

How do you store your oil?

Do you use fresh or dried herbs?

Do you do a strand test to check for potency?


Thank you.

 

[DaDragonPrincess]

 

[Nasdaq_Diva]

Hello Ladies,

Do you use water/ oil? if oil which type? Oils: I used EVCO, jojoba, castor, sesame

How do you prepare yours? I had a potpourri pot ($10) and cooked for 5hrs

How do you store your oil? Amber Glass Bottle

Do you use fresh or dried herbs? I used ayurvedic powders - not expired

Do you do a strand test to check for potency? I don't apply it to my strands. I massage my scalp with it. Works WONDERS!


Thank you.

I made a shikakai Oil infusion. I love the results!

 

[Sapphire_chic]

I am interested in making some infused oils, this thread is right on time

 

[adw425]

I have a 16 ounce potpourri pot that looks just like a small crock pot. It is by Rival, who makes the big cooking crock pots. The potpourri only simmers. If I am using powdered herbs, I place in a small gauze herb baggie that I bought from herbco.com. It is 3x5. I will fill it up halfway and simmer in 16 ounces of oil for up to eight hours, but I think I probably average about five to six hours. If I use cut and sifted herbs or buds or blossoms, I put them either into a herb gauze baggie or a mesh tea baller and simmer for the same amount of time. I have cut the foot off a pair of pantyhose and washed and sterilized it to put both my c/s and powdered herbs in before I bought the baggies (which range in price from a dime tothirty-five cents depending on the size) and tea ballers as I have two. I normally use a mix of herbs (for example I a combination of cut and sifted and powdered: wild cherry bark, calendula, chamomile, yarrow, nettle and irish moss into coconut oil and achieved the same effect with this oil on my hair as monoi oil, which can be pretty pricey.) I have used at least 20 different herbs at different times including burdock, rosemary, tulsi, shikakai, kelp, coltsfoot, rose petal, green tea, hibiscus and on and on over the years. I have also used various oils like olive, avocado, hemp, camellia, passion fruit, etc.