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If you want to boil out the oil... then you have to distill it the same way as alcohol... boil it into a copper tube where it will condense to a liquid. The collected oil and water will naturally separate in the collection container and the oil can be siphoned off.

Steaming the leaves is by boiling water to steam and then driving the steam through the leaves. The steam will collect the oil as it passes through the leaves and the steam is then collected and condensed the same way as in boiling.

You can use chemical extraction but be careful to use the correct amount of each chemical or some chemical residue may remain in the oil.

never thought of that,that sounds good though, i,m a bit sceptical of using chemicals,as i,m trying to make a natural safe oil,and i hav tons of tea trees around.i,ll use damien and your methodand mix em up.probly blow my head off

Cold pressing is usually used for extraction from seed kernels... steam or chemical extraction is used for leaves and bark.

thanks ive sort of tried that method,but i think i,m doing it wrong,i,ll give it another go,as well as the other two methods

Do some research on the oil... find out its boiling point. If you're overcooking it, you might be breaking down the oil at the same time.

yeah good point

Did you try drinking it ... you may be onto something here.

But to try and be helpful,
I know that to extract some herbal extract oil from a certain stringy plant they crush and boil the leaves in either Methylated spirits or alcohol (soluable to most oils). Then the meths (Wood alcohol) or alcohol (ethyl alcohol) is heated slowly and boiled off. It can be boiled into a distiller, collected as a liquid and reused to collect more oil.

Hope this helps.

I think I made Hash oil in the 80s like that come to think of it
not sure tho cause I was stoned at the time

if all else fails

http://oilganic.com/teatreeoil/ttdefault.htm

i know im adumb arse but cant you buy tea tree oil in a bottle

this might be a better url list,

After the leaves have been harvested they are placed on racks in a steam distiller. The oil comes out of the leaves and then floats on top of water in a collection tank. The oil is then filtered and poured into a container.

this site looks useful:-

ww.scribd.com/doc/8680242/Principles-Of-Plant-Oil-Extraction

also very informative this one:-

ww.essentialoils.co.za/extraction-methods.htm


also there is this site to:-

ww.aromaworld4u.com/Extraction_Methods.html


And woman junction says this:-

ww.womanjunction.com/topic/aroma/extraction-of-essential-oil/


there is some info here to:-

ww.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/essential-oil-extraction-process-distillation-500196.html

this might also help:-

ww.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/essential-oil-extraction-process-distillation-500196.html

sure you can, i carry it with me all the time.

Didn't you use butter

have u hered of the itain drink called grapper if so look up the grapper teckniqic its lyk the same as making grapper i have a mate in the caravan park in lismore that does the tea tree oil and he explained to me n when its finished it does smell like vodka n lavander but the mix to water is 20 to 1 if u want send me ur email address n ill get him to tell me more about it and i will email it to y

I would like that then

have you tried googling the method?

just saw this post

I think you will come in handy when I am doing my aromatherapy course in July/August I might need a tutor

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forgot to ask why are you doing it? are you doing a course or something?