Carrot seed essential oil - How to make cold pressed carrot oil

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In foods, carrot roots can be eaten raw, boiled, fried, or steamed. Carrot root can be eaten alone or added to cakes, puddings, jams, or preserves. Carrot root can also be prepared as a juice. It can also serve as an essential oil for glowing skin. Carrot leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. 


Carrot seed essential oil has shown antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties. Carrot oil when mixed with your cream will lighten your skin and if you apply it on baby skin, it will glow their skin.


Things needed

  • Fresh carrot
  • Bottle olive oil


Procedure

  1. Wash your carrot and scrap off the back, then rinse it and cut into pieces
  2. Put them into your blender and blend for like 5mins until it becomes smooth.
  3. After blending, pour it into a bowl
  4. Pour in your carrot into the bottle and pour in your bottle olive oil inside. 
  5. After putting the carrot oil and olive oil in the bottle, close it very tight to avoid air penetration except moisture process.


The 14 days nurturing process

  • This will be your every morning duty; shake the bottle very well every morning so that the carrot and oil olive will mix together.
  • From 5 days the carrot will start changing color to something like deem white.
  • Keep shaking, sometimes open the cover a little. (i.e.) allow the gas to evaporate a little.
  • On exactly 14 days, open the bottle and pour into a separate container.
  • Get a white handkerchief or white cloth or sieve.
  • Start sieving or pour into the handkerchief or white cloth and squeeze. At this point you will notice the oil coming out very tick and dull but very raw and powerful.
  • Dispose the chaff of the carrot oil after squeezing out the oil, keep pouring and pressing until you get all your oil and turn it into your own bowl.


Now your nurtured cooled pressed carrot oil is ready for use.


Tip: 

The olive oil shouldn't be less than the carrot. (i.e.) more of olive oil than carrot. 

Don’t blend with water, if your blender can’t blend it smoothly, just grate it and pour olive oil on it.