This week that lend itself to the more creative side of the brain:
As always please consult the main calendar for details, payment, tickets: Events – Dallas Makerspace
Monday 7p Pickle Popjoy @Heather_Williamee This is a new class please come support
Tuesday
6p Open 3D Scanning @Haley_Moore
7p Board of Directors meeting 7p Fiberarts: Drop-spinning yarn This is a new class please come support
Wednesday
7p Candlemaking
7p Traditional Woodcarving
7p Woodshop Basics
*7p Gelli Plate Printing This is a new class please come support
Thursday
7p Herbal First Aid
7p No Stress All Mess Art Party @Karen_Kitchen Friday
7p Intro to Rubber Mold Making and Casting @valxcurry
Saturday
11a Intro to Rubber Moldmaking and Casting
12p sdf/3wa Anime
1p DMS Pottery: Wheel Throwing @Nathan_Jones 2p Fermenation Process: Beer This is a new class please come and support
2p Jewelry: Soldering Basics
5p Rubber Mold making - Intermediate level 1
5p Woodshop Basics
Sunday
11a Blacksmith Introduction and Open Forge
1:30p Magnesite Bracelet/Silver Earrings @AnneGullett
3p Blender: Hard Edge Modeling
3:30p Book-binding coptic stich
So some fragrances for soap are interchangeable with candles - I only know this because I bought lots of stuff for soap making.
When I was a soap making maven I went here: http://store.southwestcandlesupply.com
That being said I honestly didn’t like a single smell in the whole place. I know that sounds awful but I was looking for some very specific smells and I apparently was being difficult.
Heres another place in Mesquite http://www.lonestarcandlesupply.com I haven’t been
You know I see an opportunity for the right brained CA folks to have a joint project with the left brained science folks. The science folks can host classes on how to extract volatile oils from plants and the CA folks can use those oils to create candles and soaps! What do you think @uglyknees@Ashley_Newland ?
What are the processes for extracting Volatile Oils? Is this the idea of soaking an item in a solvent and allowing the solvent to evaporate to leave the oil behind? I’ve seen medical marijuana documentaries talk about using butane or alcohol for extracting “oils from plants.” Is this how you would do it for scents? Could we expect cost effective yields?
Sorry for all the questions, just interested as the candles I’ve started to like cost upwards of $25 to $35 each. This breaks my Suzy Home Maker budget.
I have only read about it, and that many years ago when I last had a garden. But it is essentially involves immersing the plant material in a solvent (usually water or alcohol) and distilling. But there were some other steps that I don’t recall.
About 15 years ago, I played around with it with some home grown lavender, rosemary, wormwood, and some foxglove. As I recall the lavender and rosemary were the only two I was successful with.
EDIT: Cost effective will depend upon the source for the plant material. If you grow it yourself, then yes. If you harvest it wild then yes. Buying it? Probably not.
Let’s name the class volatile oils for volatile situations I was going to say people but everyone here at Makerspace is pretty even tempered (wahahahahaha…no really…snicker)
Is this how you would do it for scents? Could we expect cost effective yields?