Why doesn't my infused mint grease smell?
I used 4 oz. of grapeseed oil and roughly 1.5-2 oz of spearmint/peppermint. I slow cooked it in my crock pot for 3 hours on the lowest setting, and stirred it every 15-20 minutes. Now, after it's adjectives said and done, how come the oil doesn't smell resembling mint?
Answer:
the problem is three fold.
1. you applied heat.
2. the essential oil are volatile (they evaporate with roast.
3. The herbs may own been dated, and most of the oils be gone before since you tried to make the infusion.
To variety an infusion; put the herbs surrounded by a bottle of oil next to a lid. Set the bottle in a sunny porthole sill. Shake the herbs and grease concoction several times a day. After a week filter the herb out of the oil and make a payment more herbs to the grease, and repeat as necessary.
There is a tiny amount pf essential grease in herb. It often take 200 pounds or more to get 1 ounce of pure essential grease.
It would have be more effective to enjoy just added a cold, pure, wholesome mint essential oil to the grapeseed grease... it would have infused it near the mint for sure. I'm not exactly sure If you use ingestible mint essential oils (they DON'T read "for external use only" on the label-- indicating that the distilling process used solvents for express and cheap distillation) you would get the infusion you want near much less mint essential grease.
Heating essential oils can create carcinogens.
God bless.