That’s different from SWIM’s oil. His oil is yellowish so it’s easy to see the two layers. Even after mixing, the DMSO is clear and the oil is yellowish. In your case using a UV light would really help a lot. After you mix the two layers, only the DMSO layer glows blue in UV light.

One thing that you might be able to do is add 1 drop of food coloring to the DMSO. Maybe the food coloring will dissolve in the DMSO and not the oil. It’s worth a shot.

This is always a problem. Drop size varies by many factors. You’ll find the bottle drops are different than the pipette drops. In SWIM’s case the bottle drops are larger than the pipette drops. I try not to use drops anymore as a measure because of their inaccuracy.

SWIM is getting interested in trying nutmeg oil for the first time. He bought some but he’s a little apprehensive about trying it. I wonder if this tech will be good for nutmeg oil? In addition to elemicin, nutmeg oil has safrole and myristicin. Safrole is a sedative, but some say it does have very mild MDMA-like effects at very large doses. It might act as a modifier.

If this tech is used with nutmeg oil, the elemicin will be extracted for sure (it has an XlogP3 of 2.5), but myristicin is less polar (with an XLogP of 3), and so it might not be extracted well enough (my guess is that it will mostly float on top of the DMSO/water mix). Safrole has an XLogP of 3.1, so it’s even less polar than myristicin. So it’s possible this tech would only extract elemicin and other junk from nutmeg oil. But because of the other compounds present, it’s likely to have somewhat different effects even without myristicin or safrole.