How to - Cucumber Glycerine Extract - 2

Not long ago, I started making a glycerine extract using fresh cucumber. It has been agitated daily for about 10 days, and is now ready to be strained and bottled.

Even though straining is pretty straightforward, I thought I'd share this final process with you.

The Final Steps

To strain and bottle a glycerine extract, you'll need:

• Funnel
• Container to strain into (choose something you can easily sterilize and pour from)
• Filter of some type (coffee filters will do, but I used a doubled-up piece of silk jersey)
• Containers for your extract
• Labels

Place the funnel into the container and line it with your chosen filter.
Strain the glycerine.

below: the strained glycerine. As you can see, it has hardly taken on any color from the cucumber.

It has, however, taken on the most wonderfully fresh scent of cucumber - enough to get me all excited about using this lovely liquid in a formula!

Final step: transfer to your final container (colored glass or PET plastic). Because my bottle supply is on the low side at the moment, the extract had to be packaged in 4 smaller bottles.

Storing

Even though the product is preserved, Aroma Zone (whos method I have followed for this entire exercise) recommends storing the final product cool and dark.

To Use

The extract can be used in place of glycerine in any formula. My first plans are of trying it in a skin tonic.

Earlier

Here's the post on starting this extract