Essential Oil Steam Extraction

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Essential oil steam extractions are done via steam distillations

Oils Extracted

Hops 11-18-16

Lemon Balm 11-21-16

Mint 11-21-16

Sage 1-23-17

Lemon-Mint

The essential oil from the leaf of lemon-mint was extracted via steam distillation and analyzed via GC-MS. The spectra still requires interpretation.


Figure 1: The chromatogram of the extracted lemon-mint oil. 11/21/16


Figure 2: The chromatogram of the extracted lemon-mint oil zoomed in to the three peaks of interest at approximately 5.9, 7.7, and 8.0 minutes. 11/21/16
Figure 1: The spectra that corresponds to 5.9 minutes on the chromatogram. 11/21/16
Figure 1: The spectra that corresponds to 7.7 minutes on the chromatogram. 11/21/16
Figure 1: The spectra that corresponds to 8.0 minutes on the chromatogram. 11/21/16