How to Make Water-Soluble Essential Oil

Where do water-soluble essential oils come from? Essential oil distillers create evaporated water that is then separated from the rest of the plant matter. The distiller then collects that water, which can be used to improve the health of the skin. These distillers aren't difficult to use.

Things You'll Need

• Essential oil distiller
• Plant
• Rye dough
• Onion
• Burner

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Instructions

• 1

  Buy plants like basil, clove, cypress, dill, eucalyptus, ginger, jasmine, juniper, nutmeg, oregano, peppermint, rosemary or spearmint. You can buy many of these at a local grocery store or grow them yourself.

• 2

  Place the plant in the retort part of the distiller (the pot part).

• 3

  Add some water.

• 4

  Fill the onion with the plant matter and place the onion on top of the pot. The onion is a part of the oil distiller that is shaped like an onion and attaches to a curvy tube on the top.

• 5

  Seal the pot with rye dough. Rye dough must be used because other doughs will crack.

• 6

  Place the distiller on a burner. The amount of time that the plant matter must be boiled varies depending on the plant matter. Generally, this process takes 2 to 4 hours. This will create the water-soluble essential oils (hydrosols). The distiller is designed to allow steam to flow to a portion of the distiller where the steam is cooled and reverted to a liquid.