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Thu, Jun 14, 12 at 13:59
| I was wondering if any of you make your own rose oil or water. I would like to make my own but I don't want to buy the steam thingy. I know I can google it but I would rather have some one tell me if they do and how. |
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| Real rose oil (attar of rose) takes thousands of petals to make even an ounce. It is one of the most expensive items on the planet. |
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- Posted by mad_gallica Z5 Eastern NY (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 7:53
| I've never done it, but I've thought about it. Not the rose oil, since it takes a ton of petals, but rose water. The directions I've seen take a water bath canner, and a ton of ice. If you are interested in making things with rose petals, there are rose petal jam recipes. I've made that several times, and the results are quite nice and rosy. Unfortunately, the main jelly eater in my house doesn't like it nearly as much as the normal fruit jellys. |
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| Rose oil appears in the records of the palace at Mycenae (ca. 1200 BC). In the Iliad (ca. 750 BC but based on older stories), Aphrodite anoints the body of Hektor with rose oil. So clearly we are not talking about a high-tech product here. Probably they just packed petals of R. gallica in olive oil. The ancients also made rose pomades using rendered animal fat. Attar of roses is a distilled product. Today, damask roses are used to make rose perfumes, rose water, etc. |
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- Posted by mike_rivers z5 MI (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 17:27
| Solvent extraction, compared to distillation, is a much simpler and much more efficient way to obtain concentrates of the fragrant components in rose petals. The enclosed link describes two procedures, one for extracting with oils, such as the olive oil Michaelg suggested, and one for extracting with vodka - essentially pure ethyl alcohol. One note of caution: the link states that vodka is denatured alcohol - it isn't. Denatured alcohol is alcohol which has been treated with some material which renders the alcohol undrinkable and possibly toxic. Use vodka in the recipe and certainly don't use denatured alcohol. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Rose Oils from rose petals the easy way
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| That link mentions using sterilized jars, but I would assume that rose petals from the garden would have all sorts of germs on them. Does this matter? I am assuming that doing something like boiling the rose petals first would totally ruin them for this process. |
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| I like the way mike gave :D |
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