Essential Oils Distillery - Vohimana Rainforest
This is the oil distillery machine in the MATE (Man and the Environment) NGO Vohimana Rainforest site.The distillery works 24 - 7, and produces quite a large number of different essential oils which are in demand.
The people in the pictures are the main distillery workers and sometimes have to work night shifts to keep the fire going. Three men work with the distillery, this man to the left works with the distillery machine, another works with the oil produced (such as measuring out in bottles etc) and another collects and chops fire wood to keep the distillery going.
Around 140 Kg of leaves from a plant species being used to extract oil from, will make 30ml of oil! The leaves are collected by the local people (mostly women) who live in villages in and around the Vohimana rainforest.There are 3 distillations per day and a distillation process takes 3 - 4 hours.
A little bonus is that the hot water from the distillery can be used for hot showers when staying in the tourist village of the MATE ONG site!
By Cleo Ridgeway (Volunteer)
posted by The Dodwell Trust @ 4:51 AM
2 comments
2 Comments:
Hi,
We'd love to purchase oils from this distillery. How may we contact them?
Thanks,
David
info@earthlingessentials.com
To find out more about the distillery and how you could purchase oils from them, you need to contact the NGO non governmental organisation MATE (Man and the Environment). It's a French organisation L'homme et l'Environment, and they have information about their essential oils on their website - http://www.madagascar-environnement.com/intro-huiles-essentielles.html. The director of the NGO is called Olivier Behra.
Best Wishes
Cleo Ridgeway
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