text: how can i make essential oils for myself? i grow my own medicinal herbs and would like to make essential oils from them. well essenntial oils can be extraced from plants in several methods. one is by crushing and choppping them. then further you chose your method by the property of the essential oil. if it has a low boiling point, you can easily fracion distill it. if it decomposes before boiling off you can use simple solvent extraction. bo hify kits required!!