Common ways of extracting the scent
Distillation is one of the oldest methods of extraction of essence from plants and flowers.You pour hot water on plants(or flowers), so that the essence could transform itself into vapors, vapors which by condensation will turn into drops of essence which you may collect.
2. Solvent extraction:
The solvent extraction it’s used mostly for the delicate essences, which might lose some of their quality if you use the distillation with vapors. This method is more like a chemical process, where you use hydrocarbons which then is removed by distillation. There are lost of controverts about this method, because if we use chemical elements we cannot be sure that the resulted essence will not contain residual chemicals from solvency. Despite all of this, today lots of oils are obtained by solvency.
3. Pickling (to macerate):
You put the plants into a pot of oil and, you put a cover on them , and then you let this mix several days.The result is then refined(purified).
4. Pressing (squeezing):
It’s a simple method, used by lots of people, which helps you remove the oil from the floral part.It’s mostly used oranges and lemons, because which contain volatile oils , but it can be used with and fruit/plant/or flower.
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