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Can rubbing alcohol be used for topical herbal extracts/tinctures?

 
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I'd like to try making herbal extracts, more for their scent than for any medicinal purpose.

I have switched hand soap/shampoo/conditioner brands in the last year, because I found another brand that is unscented and significantly cheaper, and works  as well or better...I'm extremely sensitive to scent, so everything in my house is unscented, with the previous exception of my lightly scented shampoo (which I also used as hand soap). Honestly, I miss that brief hit of scent.

The brand I was using makes the only scented products I could tolerate - looking at their ingredients, I suspect that's because they use extracts instead of oils to hold the scent, meaning that they don't leave a residue on the skin. So scent was released while washing, but didn't linger to irritate me later...

My favourite scents  are generally pine, spruce, thyme, rosemary, citrus, lemon balm... Most of which I could grab from my yard.

I could go out and buy a $20 mickey of vodka to try making extracts with  - but I have a bottle of isopropyl in the cupboard.

Anyone tried it? Any downsides?

I suppose the alternative is vinegar, but I haven't found vinegars hold scent as well as alcohol.
 
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