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25 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings

A regular figure in most Asian and Middle Eastern households, essentials oils are gaining popularity in many cultures around the world. With its seemingly long list of benefits, no wonder people are turning to these concentrated extracts to support their health and wellbeing.


Often used to boost mood, ease stress, alleviate pain, relieve headaches and migraines, quell nausea, promote healthy sleep, and even repel insects, essential oils have antiseptic properties as well. Their antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties make them a useful product in your medicine cabinet. Not only that, but they have also shown to improve skin conditions, help treat the common cold, and promote healthy digestion.


There is a massive opportunity for the essential oil business. Create an income while enjoying the many benefits and uses of essential oils by tuning in to Extraction Essentials. From the extraction process to the types of equipment surrounding the extraction facility, get educated, and be on your way to creating a better product at a lower price for your customers. 

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Episodes

Bubble Hash System: Processing Herbs In The Comfort Of Your Home With Nick Gay

July 19, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB

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 show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.extractionessentials.com/podcast

Dr. John MacKay On The Importance Of Getting Plant Extraction Courses

July 11, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MB

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 focused on the extraction processes and their impact on everyday life. He also explains why Wester...

Taking The Extra Step To Oil Refinement Through The Short-Path Distillation Process With Nick Gay

July 05, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MB

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 educational content about extractions and oil. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https:/...

Nick Gay On The Extraction Process Of Lavender

June 28, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MB

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 Management at Essential Extraction. Learn the curing and extraction process, as well as the differen...

Readying Your Plants For The Perfect Harvest With Nick Gay

June 21, 2021 10:00 - 10 minutes - 9.64 MB

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 smell.  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.extractionessentials.com/p...

Creating Your Own Product By Cloning More Plants From Your Garden With Nick Gay

June 14, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MB

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 for your product, it’s time to clone them. Listen to this episode to learn how!  Love the show? S...

How To Make Handmade Soap At Home With Nick Gay

June 07, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MB

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 soap? Then dive right in! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.extractio...

Perfume Creation

May 31, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 8.04 MB

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? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.extractionessentials.com/podcast

How To Make Your Very Own Bug Spray At Home Using Essential Oils With Nick Gay

May 24, 2021 10:00 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MB

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 your body when you use this bug spray. He also says that aside from bug sprays, you can also creat...

Learn How To Make Salves With Nick Gay

May 17, 2021 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16 MB

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. Finally, Nick shows us a salve-making technique and teaches its finer points. Love the show? Subscrib...

Extracting And Filtering Essential Oils With Nick Gay

May 10, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MB

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 they deliver. Tune in, explore, and learn all about extraction processes. Love the show? Subscrib...

Alcohol Distillation Part 3

May 03, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MB

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 elaborates the process just like cooking, explaining how everyone is free to do many trials and ...

Formulating And Packaging Your First Product Day 1 With David Ross And Nick Gay

April 26, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MB

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 need to consider your dilution percentage. Don't forget to decide what type of packaging serves y...

Building Your First Products From Extraction

April 19, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MB

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. They talk about small-scale efficiencies that can be done with extraction when you're building you...

Lavender Love With Little Buddy

April 12, 2021 10:00 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MB

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 today. Joining them are Nick and David, explaining how to use the Little Buddy with lavender and w...

The Fun Begins with Knowledge

April 05, 2021 10:00 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

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

Alcohol Distillation Part 2: The Basics Of Creating Your Own Flavors With Nick Gay

March 29, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MB

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, the specific steps to be followed in building such a recipe, and how this flexible method allows ...

Alcohol Distillation Part 1: The Basics Of Creating Your Own Flavors With Nick Gay

March 22, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MB

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 call the “bathtub gin,” the different types of methods of alcohol infusion, and more. Follow alon...

Herb Extraction Basics With Nick Gay

March 15, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MB

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, so it yields pure essential oils in the end. Nick explains the two most common forms of herb extr...

Understanding Essential Oils: What They Are Used To Create, Their Benefits, And More With David Ross, Nick Gay, And Chris Johnson

March 08, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MB

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 Extraction Corp, Nick Gay of Jagged Peak Consulting, and Chris Johnson of Gaia's Harvest. Together, the...

What’s In Your Vape Cartridge? Part 2

March 01, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MB

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, which took a number of years and contractors to be created. Finally, David shares a glimpse of ...

What’s in your Vape Cartridge? Part 1

February 22, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB

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 episode, they discuss how their exploration of cartridge manufacturing led them to realize how ...

Finding Success In The Market: Get To Know Your Host Tony Frischknecht

February 15, 2021 11:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB

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 business all the way to the herb industry, and how making the leap allowed him to grow as an entre...

Gary Ross And David Ross: Get To Know The Creators Of The Little Buddy Extraction Machine

February 08, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MB

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 pushed them to pursue the creation of their certified extraction equipment. They also give a bit o...

Introducing The Extraction Essentials Podcast

February 04, 2021 17:35 - 1 minute - 1.97 MB

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 show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.extractionessentials.com/podcast