Make Your Own Essential Mint Oil
Homemade mint oil contains a familiar peppermint scent and has many health benefits. It can calm a headache, nausea, upset stomach, respiratory problems and even a fever. To make your own essential mint oil, you need a few simple ingredients, and once you learn to make it, you can add it to soap, shampoo or even your tea. The finished product will be good for approximately six months.
Instructions
1. Choose a carrier oil. The carrier oil is the oil which will be infused with the essence of the mint during the process of making mint oil. Good oils to use include apricot, almond and peach. You will need about a cup of oil for every quarter ounce of dried herbs.
2. Gather your essential peppermint herbs. You can either purchase mint at your local grocery store or grow your own. You can use fresh or dried, although dried herbs will often be stronger than fresh.
3. Infuse the oil with the essence of the mint herb. To do this, you can either cook the oil and herbs together for several hours on low in a crock pot or place the oil and herbs together in a Mason jar with the lid on and place it in the sun for a couple of weeks to ensure that the mint extract from the herbs has infused the carrier oil.
4. Strain the oil with cheese cloth to remove the remnants of the herbs and your essential mint oil is ready for use. Write the date on the jar that you store the mint oil in as it will only remain good for approximately six months before it loses it potency.
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