Distilling Essential Oils is a passion for many. Distillers use a wide variety of equipment. Some distillers use traditional Alembic distillers for making Hydrosols and Essential Oils. Some use homemade equipment. Designs and sizes vary but in the end, the results are similar. This space is for sharing your experiences, innovations and photos of your equipment. There are many of you who are working on some very interesting projects. Please feel free share your projects and thoughts.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Percent Yield
There are many variables which will determine the percent yield you will get from your raw material. Growing conditions, harvest time (including time of day), condition of the material (dry or fresh), distillation time etc.
Here's a useful guide which can tell you what you may expect to obtain from your distillations.
Feel free to add your data as this page can easily be updated.
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