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Black Box and Orange Oils

6/4/2018

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Eucalyptus Largiflorens is not a well known Australian Eucalyptus oil but to us here living on the Murray River it is well known, and we call it Black Box. Im not sure how these trees got the name Box? There are many Box Eucalypts on the farm; Yellow Box, Gray Box and essential oil can be made from them all.

Black Box is a slow growing, long living tree that grows on the riverbed plains. The essential oil is sweeter and more gentle than the river redgum and is extracted from the long grey green leaves.

The current batch that I am making is from the flowering Black Box. Winter is flowering times for box trees. The bees are a buzz as we pick the leaves and the winters chill makes for a wonderful harvest.


The rains are coming and we so need them. 

Citrus Aurantium or the bitter seville orange has come to an end of season and I put a few hundred through the still to make the most delightful essential oil.

Orange oil is commonly pressed and is often a by product of juicing, but here at Wild Crafted we put the whole orange in the water and hydrodistill the fruit. The oil is different from the cold pressed versions and we love the joyful happy essential oil that arrives. 

​Debate on whether to cut up the citrus and to open the cell membranes is worth mentioning. The photo at the bottom shows clearly that even though the fruit was not cut up, the cell membranes that hold the essential oil in the fruit were completely obliterated by the hydro distillation.

So here we are ready for winter with our Black Box oil to fend off the winter greeblies and our distilled orange oil to make life that little bit more joyous.
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Cindy Banes
10/12/2018 06:56:43 pm

My gosh ,I remember when you first got this still, you were over the moon and you played around with little bits and pieces to see what would happen, you were like a child at Christmas who was given a chemistry set. A little bit of this and a little bit of that and let's see what happens.
Like me as a Wicca, I need this herb and this color cancel and cloth and I need a full moon or it can be done any time, I need this and that on my alter I need to face this direction at sunrise etc etc.
There are so many variables to get to the end product. Just like your now very well known oils. It all began with trial and error. Good luck with this beautiful blue product. I bet it sells for the color alone.

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Cindy Banes
10/12/2018 07:15:42 pm

P. S. Not related to this post.
But I had no idea what gutted the little gliders were. What ravenous little beauties they Are.
We are so very lucky to have so many beautiful little creatures in our wonderful country.
That so many people are unaware of.
Thank you for sharing this beauty.
I'm sure it was the first time many people had even seen them before, let alone even known of there existants .You are doing an amazing job spending the word of how important it is to take care of our beautiful county for the future and for everyone to get to see things with their eyes Truely open for the first time.
Your are an awesome ambassador for our country.
THANK YOU TUESDAY, YOU ARE TRUELY AMAZING.

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