xmajarax
i have to agree it takes alot of time and expencive equitment to extract the oil and it deffently isent cheating to buy it. in the long run it will save you money and work just to buy the oil. also with the amount of flowers you need it takes a toll on your garden ^.^ <3
Yeah, it's kinda like trying to make your own vial of rose oil. I found out that it takes over a hundred petals, in good condition no less, to make about 1/2 a tablespoon. And the average sized, healthy rose (not a tiny cabbage rose and not a giant white rose) has about 20-40 healthy petals.
That means you would have to get six or more whole, healthy, average-sized roses, take off all the petals manually, and crush them all by hand with a stone or granite mortar and pestal (wood absorbs the natural oil) to get 1/4 of the required minimum for a batch of bath oil or salt (seeing as the recipe that I use takes about 1 tablespoon per cup of carrier oil or salt, and one batch calls for 2 cups and, therefore, 2 tablespoons). Not to mention that most quality rose oils have been purified. Which means to achieve the same quality and potency of
that grade oil, you would have to boil down the oil to about half it's original volume. Leaving you with about 1/8 of the minimum for a batch. Meaning you would have to repeat that process 8 times. That makes for over 50 (or just over 4 dozen) roses, and somewhere between 1000 and 2000 petals all crushed by hand, for one batch of rose scented bath oil.
Talk about a lot of work for a little product. No wonder rose oil is one of the most expensive essential oils out there. 4 dozen roses are expensive at about 20 bucks a pop for whole, healthy, average-sized red or pink. I think I'll leave this one for the professionals. . .
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