Okay, maybe it seems a little cheesy, but essential oil making "goes green" making dollars as well as saving the planet. In macro-economic terms, it contributes to widespread practice of preventive measures, reducing the cost of healthcare and therefore putting the brakes on inflation. In micro-economic terms, because the village soon will become the key unit of governance and production, it becomes a vital part of each village's pharmaceutical industry. Dismissing "green" economics as just another little shard of fractured utopian vision, you risk forfeiture of great opportunities for making money from it.
A few visionary economists gifted with the rare capacity for looking ahead, refusing to stay mired in the current crisis, and steadfastly resolved to perfect their 20/20 hindsight, recognize that "making" stands at the core of sustained prosperity. In the last several decades, we have grown exceptionally proficient at selling things made elsewhere. Now, recovering wasted factory capacity and reclaiming lots of vacant land in our mid-sized cities and regular-sized villages, we need to get back to making things with all our might. In our own backyards, "making" translates to growing our own; and in our mudrooms, garages, basements, and back kitchens we really ought to devote some of our best energies to essential oil making, capitalizing on its countless household uses.
Essential oil making ought to to begin with growing our own: If you can plant tomatoes and coach plump pumpkins out of your patch, surely you can plant an herb garden. Plant flowers once and they will return every year. If you can plant sunflowers for fun and profit, why not plant lavender, rose, and geranium; why not tear back the ivy and let clematis grow wild across your back fence? Just after your blooms have passed their peak, why not harvest those beauties for their essential oils? Their market value steadily will increase as aromatherapy and naturopathy steadily gain widespread acceptance and popularity.
Making the oils need not become a major expense or a big production. Shop the scientific catalogues, and send away for your own simple still for home production. Better still, you easily can build your own simple still; a quick online search even will lead you to blueprints for solar powered stills. Your favorite suppliers of all things culinary happily will hook you up with a proper press with which you can extract essential oils from your favorite fruits; and a little online research will lead you to easy, ingenious techniques for extracting essential oils from your favorite berries. Essential oil making produces not only sweet smelling extracts but also tons of comfort and joy; essential oil making has the fun factor woven all through it. Think of it: how terrific will you feel when you spray your pillow with aromatherapy essences you grew in your own backyard!
When you have gained a little proficiency with essential oil making, consider how you can pump your products into your village economy. No matter which method you choose-distillation, cold pressing, enfleurage, or one among three common modes of chemical extraction-a needy market eagerly awaits your product. Why horde those goodies for yourself when it can become your booming cottage industry? Transforming your aromatherapy passion from fun fascination to thriving enterprise requires no detailed market research or focus groups. The people want what you produce. The combination of dirt-cheap raw materials and eager consumers adds-up to huge profit potential.
Cynthia Thomas is an aromatherapy expert. For more great tips on
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