Extraction Essentials

Essential oils aren't everything. In this episode, Tony Frischknecht and Nick Gay, the owner of Soul Source Naturals, show us the Bubble Hash System for extracting not just essential oils but also herbs. Stay tuned to learn how you can do the whole process right in your own home as Nick walks us through each step. Plus, you’ll receive pro tips on how to make the workflow smooth and easy. Love the...

If you live in states where recreational plants are still considered illegal, you cannot fully appreciate its tons of benefits to offer. Extraction happens all the time, and the best way to start educating yourself about it is by undergoing plant extraction courses. Tony Frischknecht is joined by Dr. John MacKay of Synergistic Technologies Associates to share his engaging courses for all levels fo...

Join in today's episode of Extraction Essentials with Tony Frischknecht and Nick Gay as they talk about short-path distillation. Nick was able to take a little extraction trip to New Mexico to do a big-scale extraction. Learn the process of short-path distillation and why they had to do an extra step of refinement for their ethanol extracts over there. Listen to today's episode for more educationa...

In the last few episodes of Extraction Essentials, you learned about the growing process, preparing your garden for harvesting, and making perfume from lavender. Today, get ready for the last part of the series - extracting essential oils out of lavender with the Little Buddy Extractor. Join your host, Tony Frischknecht, and Nick Gay from Soul Source Naturals. Nick is also the Head of Product Mana...

Did you know that overwatering your plants can be harmful to your garden? So is under-watering. The key to having healthy plants is striking a balance. Learn more in today’s episode of Extraction Essentials. Join Tony Frischknecht and Nick Gay as they discuss how you can get the most out of your plants, especially lavender. Discover the proper way of watering and when to harvest for the perfect sm...

There’s a lot more to extracting than just pulling oil or handling machines, and that’s creating your own product from your garden. Tony Frischknecht’s guest today is Nick Gay, the Head of Product Management. In this episode, Nick walks us through the process of selecting plants for your garden. Make sure you know what they smell like before you choose. Once you’ve decided which plants you want fo...

The cold process creates the best soap product. This is just one of the interesting things you will learn from this episode, where Nick Gay and Tony Frischknecht share practical steps on making handmade soap. Learn what simple ingredients and tools you’ll need to start making your own product at home. Plus, you’ll get tips on how you can price your product. Ready to make your very own handmade soa...

Perfume can be quite expensive these days. So why not just create your own ready-to-use perfume? Join your host, Tony Frischknecht, and his guest, Nick Gay, as they create a DIY perfume using Jojoba oil. Nick is the owner of Soul Source Naturals and a consultant at Jagged Peak Consulting, LLC. Follow these quick and easy steps to create your own fragrance perfume wherever you go. Love the show? Su...

Have you ever bought bug sprays in the market? Some of these costs a bit and you don’t even know what’s in it. Tony Frischknecht is joined by Nick Gay to share how we can create a homemade bug spray that smells good and is able to kill off mosquitoes, using natural ingredients such as essential oils. Nick talks about using only natural ingredients to make sure that you are not putting poison on yo...

Salves are a time-tested way of providing relief for aches and pains. Tony Frischknecht is joined by Nick Gay, head of Product Management at Essential Extractions, as they sit down and discuss the step-by-step process of making salves. Nick discusses several differences between commercially available salves and their effectiveness. Tony and Nick talk about how salves work and their content. Finall...

Extraction and filtration of tinctures can be a time-consuming process. Tony Frischknecht sits down to discuss the how-tos of this process with the head of product development of Essential Extractions, Nick Gay. Nick walks us through the different methods of extracting and filtering and demos the use of a CO2 Extractor. They also talk about the differences in extraction methods and the products th...

Tony Frischknecht is joined once more by Nick Gay of Essential Extraction to continue their discussion about alcohol distillation. After talking about gin and the distillation process, as well as two infusion experiments, this time they run all those botanicals together. They dissect the distillation procedure resulting in a substance 22 times stronger than the one they originally made. Nick also...

How do you make your first product on day one after extracting your oil? Tony Frischknecht's guests are David Ross, Chief Operating Officer, and Nick Gay, Head of Product Management of Essential Extractions Corp. Nick explains how he chose to make a hand sanitizer from his newly extracted hop oil. A hand sanitizer is a good product to make during the pandemic. When making your first product, you n...

Contrary to what the current time calls for, now is the best time to be an entrepreneur. With so much information these days, the sky's the limit to creating our own products. In this episode, Tony Frischknecht is joined by Gary Ross, David Ross, and Nick Gay to pick up where they left off last time and dive deeper into some of the new formulations they have put together using the Little Buddy. Th...

Essential Extractions’ Little Buddy extractor has gained a lot of popularity, making it a favorite for accurate transaction filtration and infusion. To explore the uses of this amazing equipment even further, Tony Frischknecht and Gary Ross talk about its uses in producing 100% lavender essential oils. As one of the safest and most aromatic oils, it remains one of the most famous ones out there to...

In this week's episode, Tony discusses the ten most common questions asked about essential oils. This may seem simple but it's valuable if you are exploring a business or using essential oils in your everyday life. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.extractionessentials.com/podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this second episode of a two-parter about alcohol distillation, Tony Frischknecht is joined once more by Essential Extraction's Head of Product Management, Nick Gay. Through a video presentation, they show how to use the Little Buddy to come up with a very natural alcohol recipe from their not-so-traditional laboratory. They go deep on the organic ingredients that can be used in this process, t...

Take your extractions to a different level by creating your own flavors through infusing alcohol. Teaching you how to do that, Tony Frischknecht kicks off the series on alcohol distillation with Nick Gay, a leader in the CBD and herb industry. Together, they discuss some distillation processes plus some basics you need to know before getting down to it. Nick also shows us how to create what they c...

In this episode, Tony Frischknecht brings in Nick Gay, the Head of Product Management at Essential Extractions, to discuss the basics of herb extraction. Extraction refers to the process of getting essential oils from herbs. This process works by dissolving the plant’s essential oils in a solvent, then later separating the essential oils from the solvent through temperature and pressure changes, s...

With nature, we have the world's natural medicine around us, just at the tip of our fingertips. We ought to use it as much as we can. One of the great things coming out of that is essential oils. In this episode, Tony Frischknecht invites not one, not two, but three guests to help us learn more about essential oils and what they are used to create. He sits down with David Ross of Essential Extract...

Tony Frischknecht continues his discussion with Gary Ross and David Ross of Essential Extraction as they dissect their top-of-the-line vape cartridge. They look into the amazing features of the product that mostly address the problems of its cheap Chinese counterpart, which usually results in contamination and bad taste. Gary and David also share their hardships in building such an exemplary item,...

The history of vape cartridges is marked by trials where the most innovative developers come up with ingenious solutions to solve problems for consumers. In this series, Tony Frischknecht joins forces with the executive duo at Essential Extraction, David Ross (COO) and Gary Ross (CEO) to trace this history and explain how it has contributed to the most recent developments in vape hardware. In this...

It is quite unusual to find success in the herb market, especially in the previous decades. But Tony Frischknecht proved that with enough motivation and courage, one could make it bit in such a less-explored industry. To get to know your show’s host even more, Tony joins Gary Ross, the Founder and CEO of Essential Extractions in this episode. Tony looks back on his journey from the construction bu...

Despite the boom of the herb industry in different parts of the world, it continues to be a lesser-explored area compared to others. For father-and-son tandem Gary Ross and David Ross, this served as a catalyst to pioneer something that will change the entire game. Together with Tony Frischknecht, CEO Gary and COO David of Essential Extractions share how they got into the herb industry and what pu...

Welcome to Extraction Essentials! Brand new episodes are released every Monday, running between 15-30 minutes. Hosting the podcast is Tony Frischknecht, CSO and CO-Founder of Essential Extraction Inc., the maker of the Little Buddy CO2 Extractor. Get ready to learn more about the creation and proper use of essential oils to achieve better wellbeing and a relaxing feeling like no other. Love the sh...