peace and love wrote:My plan is to grow the peppermint to eliminate the cost. Then distill the oil.
These two sentences seem contradictory.
Have you considered the cost and effort of growing a good portion of an acre of peppermint, building a hundred gallon still, and repeatedly fueling it?
Peppermint oil is chemically reactive, the primary constituents are ketones.
Menthofuran often occurs in notable concentration and this potentially fatal liver toxin is removed by fractional distillation before peppermint oil is graded as legal for human use.
If neighbors can mistake an ill kept cat box for a meth lab, or an indian curry kitchen as a terrorism attack, what might they make of a suffocating plume of peppermint fog?
This idea is dripping with failure warnings