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Easy Dandelion Oil Recipe & 10 Ways To Use It

Easy Dandelion Oil Recipe

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Equipment

  • 1 stainless steel pot
  • 1 glass pyrex measuring cup
  • 1 small mesh strainer
  • 1 tea towel or cheesecloth

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup dried dandelion flower heads
  • 1 1/4 cup oil of your choice

Instructions
 

  • Fill a pot up with 3-4 inches of water and place it on low heat, put the dandelions and the oil in a glass pyrex measuring cup, and put it into the pot of warm water. Keep the heat on low periodically checking the temperature of the oil. You want the oil warm not hot. Keep temp around 100-120 degrees F. It is ok to turn the stove off and let it cool down if the oil is getting too warm. Then reheat again as needed. Do this for 4-6 hours. The goal is to keep it warm enough to extract the healing properties from the flowers but you don't want to cook the dandelions. This is why you don't want the heat over 120 degrees F.
    Once the 4-6 hours is up and the oil has cooled you can strain through cheesecloth or a tea towel and bottle the oil. Store in a cool dark area. Toss flower tops into a compost pile or the garbage.