How do you distill lavender?

Answer 1

A lavender plant already contains the sweet and pungent oil. Though it is the flower mostly contains the essential oil. It is being distilled and then use in perfumes, soaps, toiletries, potpourri and bath oils.

Answer 2

1Harvest the lavender plant in the morning and allow it to dry for a few hours. This should ideally be done on a dry, sunny day just as the flowers are approaching full bloom. Load the plants into a distillation vessel. This is typically a large, food-grade stainless steel pot used only for distilling lavender. The pot is filled with the lavender plants and sealed.

Introduce low-pressure steam into the bottom of the vessel to boil the essential oil from the plant. Allow the steam to exit through the lid of the vessel and feed it through a condenser. The steam is cooled into a liquid by cold water that runs through coils in the condenser.

Feed the condensate into a separator. This liquid is divided into two parts: lavender water on the bottom and the lighter essential oil on top. The lavender water is drained off through an opening in the separator situated below the level of the essential oil.

5 Collect the essential oil in a beaker on top of the separator.

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Answer 3

A lavender plant already contains the sweet and pungent oil. Though it is the flower mostly contains the essential oil. It is being distilled and then use in perfumes, soaps, toiletries, potpourri and bath oils.

Answer 4

Hi you want to get your cloves of lavender and take off the purple heads , with the purple heads you need to place in a pan , put boling water in the pan so it just covers the lavender cloves light the cooker and boil the water down until your left with a stodgy mushy paste civ out the liquid from the cloves and there you go you've got lavender extract when civing try to pass the paste throught the civ too to give it extra strength glad I could help Jordan

Answer 5

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