Making your own tinctures

Are you interested in making your own tinctures to earn some money? Dietary supplements to save? This article will guide you step by step through the points to consider when making tinctures.

Glycerin is better than alcohol

Glycerin, like alcohol, is both fat and water soluble. This makes it ideal for making your own tinctures to release a wide range of valuable ingredients from plants.

Additional advantages

pleasant, sweet taste
suitable for pregnant women and children
long durability
slight antimicrobial effect
preservative

Alcohol is often used to make your own tinctures:

Alcohol in tinctures is usually derived from corn and is therefore GMO contaminated, even if it is organic.
These tinctures therefore feed all the pathogens that are behind chronic complaints.
Even if the alcohol is not derived from corn (e.g. grape alcohol), the alcohol penetrates the herb and destroys its benefits.
In addition, alcohol always damages the liver and weakens the immune system (cf. Cleanse to Heal (p.478)).

Making your own tinctures is not difficult

All you need is:

Herbs (fresh or dried)
Vegetables Organic glycerin
a screw-top jar
a filter (Nut milk bag, coffee filters etc.)
optional: Brown glass dropper bottles

Step by step to your own tincture

Harvest the herb intended for the tincture (alternatively, you can use purchased organic herbs). The herbs can be used both fresh and dried.
Process the herb as quickly as possible. The more time that passes after harvest, the less beneficial the herb is. Wide-necked jars (e.g. 1 liter preserving jars) that can also be closed well are best. Chop up the herb beforehand so that as much as possible fits into the jar.
Now you pour over your herb Glycerin and purified water until the glass is full to the brim. You can use the ratio of 60 % glycerin to 40 % water as a guide.
Label your jar with the herb name + date.
Shake the tincture well at least once a day. This gets the glycerin moving and allows it to be better absorbed by the herb.
Depending on the herb, your tincture will be ready in 2 weeks to 2 months.
Now you have to strain out the coarse ingredients. For example, you can use a coffee filter or a nut milk bag.
The remaining liquid is your finished tincture. If necessary, you can fill them into small dark glass bottles and then take them later with a pipette.
You should also label the small bottles carefully (name of the herb + date of manufacture). This way you can better estimate the durability later.

Warning! Be careful, it feels like 99 % of the glycerin products on the market consist of no-foods and are therefore of course not suitable for compliant tinctures! It looks different Kasimir + Lieselotte out, there is conformal glycerin to buy in organic quality, which is ideal for producing your own, compliant tinctures: