A distillation of Frankincense Frereana
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So is this the highest quality of frankinsense to buy?
Hi Kayla.
This is simply a different type of Frankincense with its own unique qualities. I personally use it more than the other types, but that’s just me.
Yet another fantastic article. Thanks for the great read!
Thank you Cher!
Thank you for this post, Dan! I will try distilling spruce sap directly in the water next time. Can imagine that the results are better.
cool. im going to try this.
thankyou 🙂
Hi Dan,
I loved this article! Thank you for sharing. I am an American businessman in the middle east. I am very interested in getting in touch with you about your contact in somali land who is working the co op. I want to visit him and help him in any way I can.
Thank you Dan. My community in puntland somalia we harvest frankincense (maydi) but we never get a fair trade, iam very interested to make a business with you please contact me. Thanks
Hi Mohamed.
Thank you for your visit and contacting me.
I am happy to talk to you further. You can contact me directly at [email protected]
I look forward to our conversation.
Dan
Hi Moustafa, and thank you for visiting.
The yield I drew from 3 Kg. of Boswellia Frereana was 180 Ml., or 60 Ml. per kilo. Roughly 6%.
Really enjoyed reading I buy from Oman for the home not for bussiness an always wondered the history and making of these wonderful little rocks …:)
Hi Dan, I am a novice distiller and have some questions that I hope you will be willing to answer. I live in your old stomping grounds so I am interested in distilling Abies balsamea sap aka gomme de sapin and pines. I have two copper alembics. One I use for hydrosols (using green plant material) and the other for alcohol. Can I run a distillation in the hydrosol still with the resin or will it “season” the apparatus in an undesirable way? Do I mix the liquid Abies resin in with the water and if so, what are the propoptions? Finally, I am most interested in obtaining the ROsin from this distillation to use in incense. Will the solid rosin, separated from the water, be at the bottom of the pot? Do I have to act quickly to remove it?
Thank you for any time you give to my questions since I am not working with a mentor.
Bonnie from Québec
Hi Bonnie.
Thank you for your questions, I’ll answer them as I can from the bottom up.
The pure rosin will stay separate from your distilling water and you need to pour it out while hot at the end of your distillation. You have a few minutes to disassemble your albemic and set aside your receiver,but the hotter it is the more liquid the mass of rosin will be.
You could simply pour it into a bucket and wait for the rosin to cool. Once at room temperature it should be quite solid so you can collect it and filter it. This you can easily do with a water-bath. Put all your resin pieces in a separate container in the bath, when the bath is boiling and the rosin is again liquid, pour it through a filtering material such as a clean pillowcase. You can at this time also pour it into moulds of your choice or simply into a clean pan to be fragmented when cool.
I often use proportions of 1 part sap to 3-5 parts water. Make an accurate note of how much water is in your receiver as you go along and you will know exactly when to end your distillation. Keep in mind you can get about 10% of your distilling material in essential oil if it is fresh.
I usually heat my water first, then, when hot add my oleoresins.
I don’t know if it will season your copper albemic, I don’t think it will. However you must have an albemic that has a decent sized opening so you can clean out any residue by hand. Alcohol will do a good job removing any trace of resins, or dissolving any residue with vegetable oil, then scrubbing with soap and water, is also a good alternative.
I hope I answered most of your questions. Please let me know if I can be of further help.
Dan
Hi Dan
I bought some frankincense from Egypt” my home land, i used the oil infusion after grinding the resin. I used hot water path but it took very long time again i used veg. Oil to dissolve the resin directly on flame and the mix got to boil at some time but in both methods the extract is heavy oil with very bitter taste of frankincense and very strong smell. I wonder if the methods i used was correct? I apply the oil mixed to other oils to my face in small amounts, i mixed the resulting liquid resin with body cream .i long to hear your comment
Ruby
Hi Ruby
Thank you for your visit and your questions.
It sounds like the methods you used worked well. I don’t recommend heating resins and oil directly on the stove top since they can easily burn and can also catch fire if one is not cautious. Also the essential oils will quickly evaporate at higher temperatures leaving you with mainly the resin portion of the Frankincense and much less fragrance at room temperature. If there was no residue left after the oleo resin dissolved in the oil then you likely used Boswellia Frereana, or Maydi from Somalia.
Mixing your frankincense resin oil with other oils or a body cream are excellent ways to use the medicinal and cosmetic properties of the Frankincense! Good work!!
Dan
Hi Dan
I also wonder if the resulting oil i got have same benefits of dissolving the resin extract in your method in other oils , i don have access to frankincense essential oil where i love will this do the trick of the resin oil. By the way he frankincense i have dissolves very quickly in oil using stove very low heat . Im not sure what type i have though.
Ruby
Hi Ruby.
Yes, whether you use the isolated resin extract using water as I described in this post,
http://fairtradefrankincense.com/2015/07/26/tapping-into-frankincense-and-its-boswellic-acids-an-easy-extraction-method/
Or use oil to to extract the resin and essential oil oil directly, you will, in both cases, have both the resin and the essential oil of the Frankincense with the same properties and benefits available to use as you wish.
By your description of the Frankincense dissolving very quickly in the oil, I would guess you are using Frankincense Frereana or Maydi from Somalia. If this is the case, it would leave very little or no undissolved material behind after dissolving in the oil. Other types of Frankincense will leave behind about 30% in water soluble gum that will not melt in the oil.
Dan
Hi Susan. What a wonderful opportunity you have! No need to powder the resin. Pull out any major chunks of bark and needles. You can do either a hydro distillation or a steam distillation. At the end of the process, there will not be much of a difference.
If you choose to hydro distil your sap, it is best to bring the water to a boil before you add the resins. The resins will float on the water and will not stick to the bottom of your still.
In a steam distillation of the sap, the basic principle is to suspend the resin in a basket or colander/sieve above the water.
A dry distillation is traditional in some industries, but that requires a different set up.
In both the hydro and the steam distillation methods, you will end up at the end of the process with a pot full of sticky resin. The trick to easing the cleaning process is to (carefully), dump the remaining hot water and resin soon after the distillation.
If you are using a metal still, a stainless steel scrub pad with vegetable oil will do a quick job removing the sap and preparing your pot for washing with warm water and soap. I hope this was of some help.
Dan