How to make natural essence for room flavoring
Do you like the aroma of a plant? Know how to make your own natural essence
Essential oils are a great alternative to making flavorings. Its benefits you can check in the article: "What are essential oils?".
But it is also possible to make your own homemade aromatic essence. Although essences are different from essential oils, they work very well when the intention is just to aromatize the environment.
You can use aromatic essences in different ways in everyday life - to give a special smell to your clothes while they are washed in the machine or when you iron them, as a flavoring in environments that tend to have an unpleasant smell (such as bathroom) or even to give smell in handmade cosmetics such as soap. The essences are only for perfuming and do not offer the therapeutic benefits of essential oils, which are the substances used in Aromatherapy.
- What are essential oils?
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Therefore, when making homemade recipes, if you want to add healing properties to your products, use essential oils. But if you just need to give your home or your homemade products a little smell, making your own scent is a good idea, as some synthetic flavorings are just laboratory-produced versions of natural scents, in addition to containing artificial colorants and fixatives that can cause allergies, asthma attacks and rhinitis. You can learn more about this topic in the article: "Know the risks of synthetic room flavoring".
How to make essence for room flavoring
The video below, from the channel eCycle portal on YouTube, it teaches two recipes on how to make aromatic essence to use as a flavoring for home environments:
Mint Essence Recipe
Ingredients
- Bottle with lid for storage;
- 30 g of mint;
- 50 ml of hydrated ethyl alcohol;
- 100 ml of water.
Instructions
Cut the mint leaves and put them in a jar, then just add the water and alcohol. Leave the bottle to rest in a sunny spot for two weeks and, from time to time, give the bottle a stir.
After this period, the aromatic essence will be ready for use. If desired, strain the mint and store the liquid of its essence in a tightly closed bottle. Use whenever you like.
Chamomile Essence Recipe
Ingredients
- Bottle with lid for storage;
- Pan;
- 30 g of dry chamomile;
- 100 ml of water.
Instructions
Put the water in the pan and let it boil until it boils. Insert the dried chamomile into the pan and let it boil for another five minutes. After cooling, just put the aromatic essence in the bottle.
If you want, strain the chamomile and store the liquid of its essence in a tightly closed bottle. Use whenever you like.
Use the imagination
It is possible to make this aromatic essence with various combinations of aromatic plants and flowers. Also try making this recipe that we passed from chamomile using lavender and lemon balm. Just replace the chamomile with the plant you want.
