journey

Wednesday, July 04, 2018

DIY floral water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbdXsQIe9mI

Monday, July 02, 2018

Hydrosols and Floral Waters

What is a Hydrosol? This term is derived from the Latin words hydro and sol meaning "water solution". Hydrosols come by many names including floral waters, herbal distillates, hydroflorates all of which are pertaining to the water that is a by-product of creating essential oils.

In my case, I only collect essential oil for lemon grass. Flowers produce very little essential oils.

纯露/花水

纯露，又称水精油（Hydrolate），是指精油在蒸馏萃取过程中，在提炼精油时分离出来的一种100%饱和的蒸馏原液，是精油的一种副产品，成份天然纯净，香味清淡怡人。

纯露就是芳香植物蒸馏所得的冷凝水溶液。在蒸馏萃取过程中油水会分离，因密度不同，精油会漂浮在上面，水分则沉淀在下面，这些水分就叫纯露。纯露中除了含有少量精油成分之外，还含有全部植物体内的水溶性物质。拥有百分之百植物水溶性物质的纯露，其所含矿物养分（如单宁酸及类黄酮）是精油所缺乏的。其低浓度的特性容易被皮肤所吸收，完全无香精及酒精成份，温和不刺激，纯露可以当做每天使用，亦可替代纯水调制各种面膜等。

到目前为止，我只在蒸馏柠檬香茅才有收集精油，其他的都属饱和纯露。

Friday, February 03, 2017

pepper longan

according to the nursery, the seed isas small as pepper, keep my finger crossed wait.and see😏😏😏

Thai king water apple

I called myself plant killer. Bought this plant in Dec 2016, right after bring the plant back from KL, I am away for 2 weeks and come back to a dying plant with all the leaves wilted due to dehydration. My guess it's a survivor, just leave it under shady place and water the plant regularly. After one month plus, new leaves flourish and ready to transplant to a bigger container.

sweet osmanthus tea

planted this around 2 months plus, bloom for second time. This time with 6 little flowers, really tiny. As usual, this is for tea, the tea I have. Though only 6 little tiny petals, but the fragrance is really strong and sweet. Love it.

damask rose

first bloom of damask rose and later became my afternoon tea. The fragrance is very sweet, cold and very soothing. Even with only one stalk of rose petals but the fragrance of it is so overwhelm. Even after shallow the water, the fragrance still came back from the throat. Amazing. Hope to propagate soon so that I can try rose jam, rose wine and rose essential oil perhaps😃😃😃

Sunday, January 15, 2017

sayur manis

for the love of pan mee, planted sayur manis again, but this time in polybag.

Saturday, January 14, 2017

all season onion

hopefully after this no need to buy spring onions from market. This spring onion will multiply as its grow. In Mandarin it's called 4 seasons onion(四季葱). The taste is not as good as the one that grow from onion though. Wanted to plant in planters box, but the price is RM22, finally get this for RM4.5. Will try to get gutter soon.