Agree completely. Traditionally they used plant material with melted fat (lard) until the lard smelled strongly of the plant material then added grain alcohol then steam distilled. The enfleurage. The grain alcohol acting as a carrier for the fragrance.
this is great don’t have to do any extracting, i’m gonna use some purple irises i found to make an enfleurage for my wife. they literally smell like concord grapes.
Great video, Tinaka! Thanks for explaining how the Enfleurage process works. Wondering, do you recommend adding a preservative since there was fresh plant material? Also, how do you recommend to clean plant material before adding to oil?
Great questions! I struggled with whether or not to add a preservative as this is getting water from the fresh plant material. I chose not to add a preservative. I have been testing this enfleurage every 3 months for any bacterial, mold, or yeast growth and have not had a single colony growth. That being said, these particular flower petals did not produce much water so I may have been able to siphon all of the water off. You could certainly add a preservative for an enfluerage and it would probably be a better option. I would go with lexgard natural if I were choosing to use a preservative. In regards to cleaning the plant material, I would dry clean as much as possible. I would not rinse material.
This is similar to macerated oils which I make using dried hibiscus flowers. It takes a number of weeks to get it to the right consistency which ends of being like a syrup. Just wondering if you need to use a preservative because of the water content in the flowers.
Any oil that is solid when cool and liquid when warm, that is also has no scent. She mentioned coconut oil (Unscented) but you can also use vegetable fats, lard, tallow, etc.
Will the finished enfleurage hold the alkaloids of datura? The smell is absolutely amazing and energy strong but psychoactive effects not what I'd be going for.
@@wildnaturalskincare I've been doing a lot of research on this, i didn't attempted to do it, tropane alkaloids responsible of the effects are easily soluble on fat, so, the final product will be toxic
In our case we are not using tallow or any animal fat. I would imagine though, from my early days that lemon would be the best ingredient to remove the smell of animal fat. ~Laura
I accidentally left flowers in the oil for about 2 or 3 days and it’s brown now! Can I strain them out still and add more flowers or will it go bad? I added pure vitamin e
An oil that has no odor! That's why unrefined coconut oil isn't recommended, because it smells like coconuts and you wouldn't be able to smell the flowers in the oil. :)
I regret to inform you that this process is totally wrong. Enfleurage does not encourage separation of flower petals as this decelerates plant shelflife. Also, only a thin layer of oil is needed. It takes also nine extractions to complete a saturated enfleurage. Thank you. Already reported your video.
Hi Francis, I'm not sure if you watched the entire video, but we find that the enfleurage made here works well, smells wonderful, and has no microbe activity more than a year after its creation. To be more specific, the point of enfleurage is to imbue your chosen oil with the scent of your chosen flower--essentially an infusion for scent purposes. I am not sure what your second sentence is addressing, however all flower petals and leaves are removed in this formula. There is also no set number of extractions needed--perhaps only 3 will work for a certain flower, or 9 is preferable for another with a certain oil of your choice. It is up to you and how you want the final result to smell. And finally, we have done a micro test on this formula every 2 months from the time of creation and there is no yeast, mold, or bacteria colony growth, so we are confident our particular product is safe to use. I hope you enjoy crafting your own enfleurage--we do always love hearing what people come up with! Thanks - Essential
@@cymbidiumm I don't care about you. But I still admire how they commented about my comment even if it is rude. I do not know, my process of enfleurage is different from his or hers. So we will stick to what we believe in, and even if I said "I reported it." , I am not the owner of RU-vid and my comment cannot change the world, for humility per se. It is just my opinion, and I admit it is a bit not good but we are just honest here. Sorry Stanislav.
@@EssentialLabsOfficial . I like the way you replied here, so professional even if my mood was not. I do not know, I am very strict with my enfleurage yet I can only partially convey my opinions you know. Your decisions are more important than mine as my comment has no right to change your practices either. Goodluck still and I appreciate your politeness despite my unpleasant initial comment. :)
but try not detaching the flower petals and use lesser oil and adding vitamin E in the last nth enfleurage, you may discover fascinating results, you know, who knows you can create a video about this as an option and it can garner another set of views and money you know..... But you are not required to do that either.
Hi there! In the video we used Babassu Oil but you could also use RBD Coconut Oil Babassu Oil => www.essentialwholesale.com/product/2707/babassu-oil-refined-cp-certified-organic RBD Coconut Oil => www.essentialwholesale.com/product/1302/coconut-oil-rbd-certified-organic
Stirr one or two tea spoons of anhydrous sodium sulfate into your watery oil. It will bind the water and sediment, then you simply decant your dried oil.
@@jenjq2012 Essential oils are practically insoluble in water, which is why you use fats and organic solvents for extraction. If you were to collect the watery by-product for some reason, you'd probably end up with a very bitter, mostly odorless liquid.
I great and clear video, but it raises the question, "What use is an enfleurage?" in other words, what use is a solid fragrance oil? Do you then make soap? Do you rub it directly on the skin? And if so, doesn't it leave a residue on clothing if you do rub it on the skin?
The pomade can be directly used as a balm or solid fragrance, if you wish so. Else you could extract it with hot absolute ethanol, cool it down to separate the solidified fat and distill off the ethanol so only the pure, concentrated essential oil extract remains.
The peel of citrus fruits contains a lot of essential oils, extraction is quite feasible. There is no point in attempting to extract the juicy parts of a fruit. Depending on the fruit, the seeds may be pressed to gain seed oil, though it generally isn't really suited as fragrance. But you may infuse this seed oil with purified essential oils from peels, if you desire the potential medical properties of the seed oil and want it to smell nice.
You want to use fat, not oil, because it solidifies at room temperature so you can easily separate it from water as well as any secondary solvent, if you plan to further purify the essential oils. Coconut oil has very good properties for enfleurage, though highly processed hydrogenated plant oils (oils turned into fats), bleached and deodorized animal fat, paraffin wax etc. will also do. It really depends on what you intend to do with the pomade afterwards, coconut oil is quite versatile.
