Supercritical Fluid or Steam Distillation for Essential Oils

Supercritical Fluids are environmentally friendly and cost effective, but they can’t possibly work for extracting essential oils, can they?

YES.

Supercritical fluid is an excellent, non-toxic way to replace hexane in your essential oil extraction process. Supercritical fluid can be used at a lower temperature than steam distillation (95 to 100 degrees F vs 140 to 212 degrees F for steam distillation) – perfume extracts will keep their top notes!

Visit the Applied Separations website to find out how you can use supercritical fluid to produce a higher quality extract for less.