RE: infusions /dog ear infection

[Guest guest]

Yes, you can infuse chammolie and St. John's Wort with a decent smell

if you make sure to cove the top of your infusion with a little alcohol to

eat up the moisture that remains at the top of the infused material. I

haven't infused St. John's Wort and Chammomile in a couple of years but

they came out smelling medicinal and a little funky as I remember. I tend

to specialize in other herbs like helichrysum, melissa, rose, violet, and

this past year comfrey. Now comfrey no matter what you do to it will stink

and so will violet leaf and melissa if you don't put about a teaspoon of

alcohol on the top of your infused mixture. They now come out ok but not

great with a smell. If you would like more information, please email me

privately. We are doing a remodeling on our home and I have not been able

to give the list as much time as I would like but recently I have noticed

some good infusing methods presented that are different than what I use. I

now believe that each part of the US has developed its own methods of

infusing herbs and that different methods work better for different folks.

I use an aged, long-term infusion method which gives me infused herbal oils

that are extremely strong and medicinal and you have to use them by the

drop as you would an essential. Thereby giving a gentler herbal oil with

similar effects as an essential oil for working with children, elderly, and

immune impaired systems. They set for a year or more before I even open the

jar that they are infused in while most infusions made on this list are

short-term infusions that set for under 3 months at most and are used by

the ounce or more in their formulas with little thought for medicinal use.

Most of these infusions are used by the people who make soaps and some

lotions according to what information that I have gleaned. I once thought

that you could only make herbal infused oils one way as you would an

essential oil but I found out differently. However, one day I would like to

see herbal infused oils made within a set of informal guidelines set up for

medicinal and non-medicinal uses. Medicinal use infusions would tend to be

long-term, aged infused oils (that would set for 9 months or longer, more

like a year minimum) while non-medicinal infused oils would be short-term

infused oils (of less than 3 months)to ensure that people who chose to go

into the infused oil business could make a fair and equitable living. At

present there appears to be no way to price different types of infused oils

because all of the infused oils are lumped into one category of short-term

because long-term infused oils are rare and have not been around forever

like the short-term infused oils. Short-term infused oils should carry one

price and long-term, aged infused oils another price. This will be worked

out in the times to come with more and more people interested in making

long-term infusions. Imo long-term aged infused oils add another dimension

to aromatherapy between essential oils and base-carrier oils and their time

is coming soon.

Thanks.

Rhavda Emison

Scents of Success (http://www.scentsofsuccess.com)

Texas Grown-American Made Rose Oil Products

Rose, Helichrysum, Oak Moss, Melissa, Violet Leaf, & More

 

Original Message:

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Saskia Van Besauw Saskia.VanBesauw

Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:46:02 +0100

 

RE: dog with ear infection

 

 

> Now this is a big question:Can I infuse regular Chamomile and

> St.Johns Wort plant(which I do have) into Oil and expect a

> decent result?

 

I don't know much about infused oils and their strenght, but some on

this list, like Ravda, do...

 

Love,

 

Saskia

 

 

 

 

 

 

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