Like a laboratory! ?

Pranalom essential oil used in JMAA. Although there is a description of the extraction method in the accompanying component table, most of the essential oils are extracted by the "steam distillation method" except for citrus essential oils.

But what about steam distillation?

I read the essential oil using steam like a letter reads, but when I look for the state of the factory of the essential oil producer ...
There is a pipe coming out of a large tank that seems to be stainless steel (; 'ω)
I can't imagine the inside inside at all ----

... "Steam distillation method workshop" found at the beginning of the house I thought, and because the equipment is made of glass, the process is well understood!


Roughly speaking,

Put the herbs on the mushrooms in the kiln filled with water and apply steam.⇒ Cool the steam containing herbal components, extract the water (scented water called herb water) and essential oils. But ... from the conclusion, it is very difficult to extract pure essential oil with your own equipment!

Because, in order to extract the essential oil, the distilled water after cooling must be applied to the "separator".

The essential oil is slightly floating in the distilled water obtained without using a separator, but it is extremely difficult to suck it up with a dropper. In order to take out the essential oil alone, you need special equipment.

Although the structure of the separator used for the equipment used this time is not complicated, it was devised to efficiently separate water and essential oil.

Of course, it does not mean that it is sent to an inspection organization for component analysis, so it is of course `` self-responsibility '' for safety, but it is a big harvest to know what was happening in that big stainless steel tank was.