Making calendula oil

[Guest guest]

Hello all,

I have planted some calendula flowers and plan on making infused calendula oil

in the

future. However, now that they are blooming, I see that about half of the plants

have pale

yellow, almost whitish flowers. The other ones have the deep orange flowers,

some with

red centers, that I have used in the past to make oil.

I am wondering if the pale flowers have the same healing properties as the

orange ones, or

should I rip them up and plant more orange ones?

I thank you in advance for any advice!

Best regards,

Stephanie Spak

PS -- Any special advice about making calendula oil would be welcomed too. I was

taught

to use the whole flower, semii-dried, but I have heard of others just using the

petals. What

do other people do?

[Guest guest]

I use the entire flower head and I don't think the color of flower makes any

difference in it's healing powers. I use every blossom I get

Paula .......... in Michigan

I used to have super powers but my therapist took them away

 

Hello all,

I have planted some calendula flowers and plan on making infused calendula oil

in the

future. However, now that they are blooming, I see that about half of the

plants have pale

yellow, almost whitish flowers. The other ones have the deep orange flowers,

some with

red centers, that I have used in the past to make oil.

I am wondering if the pale flowers have the same healing properties as the

orange ones, or

should I rip them up and plant more orange ones?

I thank you in advance for any advice!

Best regards,

Stephanie Spak

PS -- Any special advice about making calendula oil would be welcomed too. I

was taught

to use the whole flower, semii-dried, but I have heard of others just using

the petals. What

do other people do?

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

At 04:05 PM 6/21/2006, you wrote:

>PS -- Any special advice about making calendula oil would be welcomed too.

>I was taught

>to use the whole flower, semii-dried, but I have heard of others just

>using the petals. What

>do other people do?

 

Stephanie, I've always used the blossoms DRY dried, and, when possible, I

will take the time to use just the petals. It gives a more intense oil

than using the whole blossom.

 

(And the deeper the color of the blossoms you use, the deeper colored the

infused oil will be. I suspect the pale blossoms you have will work, but

maybe it would help to double infuse.

 

be a shame to waste what you have... maybe infuse first in the light

colored ones and finish by infusing with the dark ones?

 

 

 

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