Frankincense Oil Extraction Process

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Frankincense Oil Extraction

What you need:

• EssenEx® 100 Distillation Kit for Frankincense oil distillation process
• 100 grams of Frankincense

Preparation:

• Weight the plant material.
• Use a blender to make the botanical material powder.
• Add water to powder with ratio ½ ml water per gram of Frankincense potential mass (½:1 by mass).
• Mix until it is a consistent paste.
• Place in EssenEx as describe in User Manual.

Trial:

• Place the reactor into the microwave with one mug of water.
• If multiple batches are run, change water in the mug between trials.
• Each batch should run for 5.5 minutes on a power setting of HIGH (1100 watts)
• Lower power units: simply add 30 seconds to a minute for the cooking phase.
• Allow the batch to cool for 6 minutes. 3 minutes inside the microwave and 3 minutes outside the microwave and be careful if moving from the microwave, as jar will be quite warm initially.

Collection:

• Pour top contents of the beaker into the easy separator and rotate it using the palms of your hands while resting it on a cloth (kitchen towel) on a hard surface (counter top). The motion should be similar to starting a fire with sticks.
• After a few seconds, stop rotating the separator and observe the oil layer.
• Repeat the process if you believe more oil will collect.
• Once the oil is separated (above the hydrosol in the neck of the flask), use the pipette to place it in a vial.

Yield:

• Upon lifting the lid, a small amount of ice should be remaining on screw.
• If not, then reduce the amount of water added.
• With nominally good frankincense, 3% to 3.5% by mass.
• 100 grams yields roughly 3.0 to 3.5 ml oil.

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