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ChE157 Maratas OintmentProduction LabProcedure

The document provides instructions for making an oregano liniment and ointment. It details the ingredients and steps to combine fresh or dried oregano with rubbing alcohol or vodka to make the liniment. It then explains how to take the prepared liniment and combine it with petroleum jelly, melting and simmering the mixture to create an oregano ointment.

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ChE157 Maratas OintmentProduction LabProcedure

The document provides instructions for making an oregano liniment and ointment. It details the ingredients and steps to combine fresh or dried oregano with rubbing alcohol or vodka to make the liniment. It then explains how to take the prepared liniment and combine it with petroleum jelly, melting and simmering the mixture to create an oregano ointment.

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Experiment No.

Production of Liniment and Ointment from Oregano

OREGANO LINIMENT

Ingredients:

Rubbing alcohol, vodka, or witch hazel extract

Fresh or dried herbs, bark, or buds

Procedures:

1. Wash the plants or herbs if needed. If you choose fresh herbs or plants, you may need to

wash them off first, depending on what they are. For instance, you may want to wash off

ginger root, but you wouldn't want to wash the resin off of the cotton wood buds.

2. Chop fresh plants. If you're using fresh plants, you need to chop them up first. They don't

have to be very finely chopped. Just give them a rough chop so that their essence is more

easily extracted. Try to get the pieces smaller than 1 inch at the least.

3. Pour into a clean jar. Choose a jar that creates a tight seal. Place the plants in the jar.

4. Cover the herbs with alcohol. Once you've added the plants, pour in enough rubbing

alcohol, vodka, or witch hazel extract to cover the plants. You don't want part of the plant

sticking out.

5. Leave it steep for a month or more. Once you've combined the ingredients, you need to

let them steep. You can wait just a month, but 6 weeks is probably better.
6. Shake it up. Though it needs to steep, you need to help the process along by shaking the

mixture up. Once a day is sufficient, but you can do it more often if you wish.

7. Strain the mixture. Once the time is up, you need to strain out the herbs. Pick a clean,

dark jar with a tight-fitting lid. Place a clean piece of cheesecloth or muslin over the jar.

Pour the mixture through it, leaving the herbs in the fabric.

8. At this point, you can add a small amount of menthol crystals. How much you add is up

to you, but start with a very small amount, just a small pinch. You can always add more.

9. You can also add a few drops of essential oil at this point if you wish.

10. Label the bottle. Add a label that includes everything you put in the liniment. Also, make

sure you add "for external use only." The liniment will keep a long time due to the

alcohol.Apply to the skin. Gently rub a small amount on your skin as you need to do so.

Let it dry on your skin.


OREGANO OINTMENT

INGREDIENTS:

50g petroleum jelly

5mL of previously prepared oregano liniment

PROCEDURE:

1. Set up a double-boiler –a pot of water, with a bowl over the pot.

2. Put 50g petroleum jelly in the bowl and melt it.

3. Add 5mL previously prepared lemongrass liniment in the melted petroleum jelly.

4. Mix and simmer the mixture on very low heat for half hour.

5. Pour the mixture in a container and cool so as to allow it to thicken.


References:

[1] https://www.herbaffair.com/pages/how-to-make-herbal-ointments. Retrieved: July 30,

2021.

[2] https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Liniment#/Image:Make-Liniment-Step-15.jpg

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