Extracting Menthol From Mint Leaves *RE-UPLOAD*

In this video, I extract menthol from mint leaves, and further purify it.
If you attempt to extract menthol yourself, I do not recommend that you try to consume or otherwise use it, and only do so to explore the science of isolating naturally occurring compounds.
Menthol is sometimes used to treat sore muscles and cold/flu symptoms. One method for treatment involves melting a small amount of menthol into a bowl of boiling water and using a towel to cover the bowl and the face, making it easy to breathe in the steam which carries the vapours.

[Slasho]

Please don't stop the video, they are unique and pretty useful!

[michaelsuk]

Don’t plant a mint plant in your garden, put it in a separate pot. Mint plants are extremely invasive and spread like weeds very quickly, depriving everything else in your garden of nutrients. It’s also very hard to kill. My neighbors have a mint garden (started as one plant) and they let us take as much as we want because it grows faster than you can use it.

[alexandernellaw]

The white background makes it hard to see what's going on in the glassware. Especially with clear liquids.

[hmm_silas]

Anyway I can make it without all the fancy equipment?

[wolfwalker]

Wow, such a lot of effort to get just a wee bit of menthol crystals. Now I know why it's so expensive. Would appreciate it if you could identify the equipment set up parts by name, and let us know where they may be purchased. Could this be partially accomplished with an Alembic set up? This may be material for another video. Thank you for this.

[naes_pov]

Yk I was just inhaling menthol crystals and I couldn’t help but wonder how it was made 😂👍 thank youuuu so much for this

[arsamariannezhad]

I have too many mint my front yard and I don't know what to do with them so I'm watching your video

[mindofgamers]

Wow, your Videos are great, this IS the First one i sse fromnyou, but its fantastic!

[ndono]

What unit of measurement are you using? Metric or imperial?

[richardliu]

can you please tell me where I can buy organic herbal tea tree leaves and other leaves for making my own essential oils, thank you.

[kobrak]

I Want To Repeat Your process Here Can It Work With Ethyl ester As A Solvent Instead The DCM

[vaatwasdotcom]

Good movie man. Could you also use hexane instead of CH2CL2 ? What would be te difference ?

[matthewread]

Is that food grade? And if I wanted to add that to a medicinal oil, would it easily incorporate into solution? And if so, would it separate out once cooled to room temp

[muzaffaryusupov]

Unfortunately i don't have DCM solvent, what solvents can I use instead?

[happy_bubble]

Just out of curiosity... why does the description say not to make it for the purpose of using the end result?

[staceymcdermott]

Bit off topic hear but would this also work for collecting cannabis terps

[crystina]

J.s. poxon thank you for your sharing!!! Maybe you are the rightest person I can ask these questions I have since a while...
How are menthol crystals made? Those that are made with a cold process of the essential oil..
Is it possible to make menthol crystals not from actual mint essential oil? If so. What do they use?? I can't find this answer anywhere and I'm sorry to bother you but I hope you can help 😅❤🌈

[tenkenryujin]

Is acetone bad? Like if u breath it in

[kenansry]

This method called hydrodistillation, right?

[kalicngx]

Hi, can we ask for your name? So we could put your video on our research paper as source of information?