Why doesn't my infused mint oil smell?

I used 4 oz. of grapeseed oil and about 1.5-2 oz of spearmint/peppermint. I slow cooked it in my crock pot for 3 hours on the lowest setting, and stirred it every 15-20 minutes. Now, after it's all said and done, how come the oil doesn't smell like mint?

Why doesn't my infused mint oil smell?
the problem is three fold.



1. you applied heat.



2. the essential oils are volatile (they evaporate with heat.



3. The herbs may have been old, and most of the oils were gone before before you tried to make the infusion.



To make an infusion; put the herbs in a bottle of oil with a lid. Set the bottle in a sunny window sill. Shake the herbs and oil concoction several times a day. After a week filter the herbs out of the oil and add more herbs to the oil, and repeat as necessary.



There is a tiny amount pf essential oil in herbs. It often takes 200 pounds or more to get 1 ounce of pure essential oil.
Reply:It would have been more effective to have just added a cold, pure, unadulterated mint essential oil to the grapeseed oil... it would have infused it with the mint for sure. I'm not exactly sure If you use ingestible mint essential oils (they DON'T read "for external use only" on the label-- indicating that the distilling process used solvents for quick and cheap distillation) you would get the infusion you want with much less mint essential oil.



Heating essential oils can create carcinogens.



God bless.