Thread: Homebrew Bayrum Recipes

You all know about my passion for aftershave, shaving soap and other shaving products home making. Bay Rum is one of my "classic" aftershaves since I started the hobby of shaving product making, about ten years ago, more or less.
A dear friend of mine who spent his summer vacation in Santo Domingo bought genuine dried bay leaves for me because he knew about my hobby and, moreover, he is also enthusiastic about my shaving products and in fact he uses them all.
I will certainly use the leaves for my next batch of Bay Rum aftershave and it will be great to see the differences between the essential oil and the real bay leaves. As I need to understand the strength of dried leaves, I started experimenting with them, I put them in a tiny jar and started macerating them in 95% ethyl alcohol.

Dried West Indian Bay leaves (Pimenta Racemosa)




Leaves of Pimenta Racemosa macerating in 95% Ethyl Alcohol.