HERB - Old Oil Bottles

[Katherine Blackthorne]

OK.  I wasn't going to admit to the bleach.  (I could just see all those
"don't-you-know-better-than-to-mix-herbs-and-bleach looks my mother &
grandmothers would all give me...)  But yes, the bleach smell has worn off.
The other hasn't.

--Katherine


>On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Katherine Blackthorne wrote:
>> I've tried all thesee tricks (and then some) and still certain herbs leave
>> behind their scent!  (And that's just dried herbs, not oils.)  AND
>> bakingsoda.  AND lemon juice.  AND leaving it open-to-the air for a year
>> after trying everything else.  My jars still smell like valarian!
>> --Katherine
>
>Oh. Valerian. Yes. It's vitally important to treat valerian as if it were
>hazardous chemicals. Just as an experiment, when I finally discarded the
>valerian teabags, I soaked the OUTER jar (I was storing the valerian in a
>plastic bag in a glass jar inside another plastic bag inside another glass
>jar), overnight with a heavy bleach-and-water solution. It then smelled of
>bleach and valerian! The bleach smell eventually washed off...
>
>Jadwiga Zajaczkowa (Shire of Eisental), mka Jennifer Heise
>jenne at tulgey.browser.net
>"in verbis et in herbis, et in lapidibus sunt virtutes"
>(In words, and in plants, and in stones, there is power.)
>
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