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A Personal Story About Sweet Basil

There is something special about distilling plants that are around us.
Kuan Nee See

by Kuan Nee See

A Personal Story About Sweet Basil
Sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum ct Linalool)

While I love opening up the cap of essential oil bottles and smelling each, I have always felt an urge for direct experience in distilling the essential oils. When one of the Aromatherapists in Singapore told me about a distiller who sells home distilling stills, I got myself one too, in the hope that when I moved to a
more remote area in the Philippines - I'd be able to try my hands on distilling my own!

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