How essential oils are extract

Properly extracting essential oils from the raw ingredients produced by mother nature is a delicate procedure requiring chemical knowledge and experience artisan and proper equipment.

 Essential oils often become adulterated during this process rendering them impure less effective than their 100% pure counterpart and possibly even unhealthy for our bodies.

 While there are many different methods of extracting essential oils in this content.

 We’ll focus on the two most common methods used.

  1. Hydro distillation
  2. Microwave Assisted Hydro distillation

 by jade bloom for ninety-five percent of the oils offered steam distillation and cold pressing steam distillation combines the use of pressure and steam to extract the essential oils.

 Even though the concept is rather simple the process is complex and perfecting it can be very difficult.

Hydro distillation
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Hydro distillation

Let’s discuss the simplicity of this procedure before we discuss how the complexity can be problematic raw ingredients are placed inside a stainless-steel cooking chamber.

 Where the steam passes over the materials the steamed slowly breaks through the plant material and removes volatile constituents as these constituents are freed from the plant.

 They rise upward in their gaseous form through a connecting pipe that leads into a condenser.

 The chilled condenser cools the rising vapor back into its liquid form known as essential oil.

 Where it can be easily collected from the surface of the water a few essential oils.

 Such as clove are heavier than water where then the procedure requires that the oil be siphoned from the bottom of the water tank.

 

Microwave Assisted Hydro distillation

producing 100% pure essential oil with steam distillation requires that the pressure in the chamber be perfect the temperature of the steam be perfect and the time the raw ingredients are exposed to the steam be perfect.

 For example, the rare Kashmir lavender from the Himalayan mountains distilled by jade bloom reaches. Its temperature at 245° Fahrenheit three pounds per square inch pressure during two hours of distillation perfected distillation temperatures pressures.

 And times differ from plant to plant cold pressing also referred to as expression is how jade bloom extracts the oils from the rinds of its citrus essential oils.

 And seeds of many of its carrier oil heat is still used in this process. But at a colder temperature than steam distillation cooler temperatures around 120° Fahrenheit are often the gold standard for perfecting this procedure.

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 The slightly heated materials are placed in a container. Where it’s pricked and punctured by a rotating device with spikes, when the materials are punctured they release the essential oil into a container below machines.

Using centrifugal force will then separate the juice from the essential oil.

We’ve discussed a few ways that essential oils may become adulterated during the distillation or expression procedures.

 Here are a few other common ways that distillers can get it wrong in an effort to cut their costs distillers will Rida still.

The same materials multiple times the oil university only recommends using essential oils from the first distillation.

 But note that some distillers will produce less effective adulterated essential oils by Rida stealing.

 The same batch of raw ingredients to three or even four times also some distillers will source non-organic raw materials for distilling.

 That often contain pesticides or other harmful chemicals while it is cheaper to source these materials. It’s important to note that any chemicals contained on or in the raw materials being distilled will represent themselves in an adulterated essential oil.