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Cananga flowers are hydrodistilled for 60 hours. Clove Wood is used to heat the direct fire still. The aroma is similar to that of Ylang, but is always distilled as a whole oil unlike Ylang which is fractioned during distillation.
Monday, July 18, 2011
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have you ever distilled manuka in a copper still. We have just done some in a 20 L Column and have got a sticky blue glue. Is this a reaction to the copper, do you know what constituents in plants react with copper, lavender is fine, but some plants seems to react - any solutions?
We have just distilled manuka in a 20 L copper still. We have alot of sticky blue glue. Do you know what plant constituents are reactive with the copper - is there a way of stopping this reaction when you are distilling?
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The culprit is most likely the cineole present in Manuka Oil.
You can try adding citric acid to the oil, give it a shake, let it sit for a bit, then filtering it.
There also seems to be a reaction with geraniol.
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