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How to Make Essential Oils
Six ways aromatic compounds are taken from plants, from maceration and enfleurage to steam distillation, with video answers on running a copper alembic.
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Distilling White Sage Oil
Robert Seidel steam distills a small batch of dried White Sage in a 100 gallon stainless still: weighing, packing, condensing, separating and aging.
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An Interview with Robert Seidel
Robert Seidel tells how a forestry education and one question about balsam fir resin led to The Essential Oil Company. Video and transcript.
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Distilling Eucalyptus Citriodora
A photo tour of a Eucalyptus citriodora plantation in Brazil, from cloned seedlings to the still, and the charcoal made from the leftover wood.
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Distilling Douglas Fir from Wind-Fallen Park Branches
We harvested wind damaged Douglas Fir branches from local city parks, chipped them and steam distilled them. Yield, lessons and what we would change.
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