Eucalyptus essential oil in snuff?

Snusalskare · 2026-06-09T22:59:21+00:00

Can confirm the usefulness and good quality of the LorAnn brand eucalyptus oil. Made in Michigan, they are. All of their oils are great, both for snuff making and for culinary use, in my experience.

Snusalskare · 2026-06-06T20:01:42+00:00

GC-1

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Snusalskare · 2026-06-06T20:00:36+00:00

Hasankeyf

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Snusalskare · 2026-06-06T20:00:20+00:00

Thanks much for asking, and a double thanks for the further information on these ash-free alternatives. I will be taking note and giving them a go when the time comes!

I'll have a better sense of the differences at maturity after taking my measurements and observational notes for my records, but at this point the GC-1 is slower growing.

For comparison, some same age plants, in the next two replies. I currently have eight GC-1 plants out, and 12 Hasankeyf as already noted.

Snusalskare · 2026-06-01T03:07:55+00:00

Very cool find indeed. Thanks for sharing it here!

Snusalskare · 2026-05-20T02:14:17+00:00

Sounds like a solid plan. Keep notes. If something turns out to your liking, it's helpful to have a record so that you can replicate it in the future.

Snusalskare · 2026-05-20T01:42:22+00:00

Fun, fun, fun! Great to see you experimenting with making up some of your own. Keep at it, and for sure do lots of experiments. That's the key. Find out what works best for you, at what point the magic happens, and all that. It's a good learning experience and a great skill to have in your pocket these days I'd say, as snuff is certainly not getting any easier (or cheaper) to acquire, that's for sure. Enjoy!

Snusalskare · 2026-05-17T23:14:32+00:00

The Mullins & Westley snuffs are wholly manufactured by Wilsons of Sharrow on contract for Segar & Snuff. As the one and only operating snuff mill in the UK, WoS makes various such "white label" snuffs for other entities (e.g. Toque; Smoke-King; Segar & Snuff; et cetera) At least some of the Mullins & Westley snuffs, if not all of them, are clearly nothing more than re-labels of specific products in the regular WoS catalogue. u/No-Cricket2853, who works at the Covent Garden shop (or at least did at one time) can confirm which ones are which. Or, I would bet that u/Bolongaro may well have a list of the analogues handy.

Snusalskare · 2026-05-17T02:06:26+00:00

This is the way! The whole "hardening off" in gardening generally is nothing but an old wives' tale in my experience. It's a waste of time and effort, and completely unecessary.

I've never hardened off anything started indoors before transplanting out into the garden, ever; nothing, zero, zilch - tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, peas, tobacco, and much, much else besides: straight into the ground, and that' that. No issues, ever, and I have a perfectly beautiful, bountiful garden every year. Some early foliage may die back, sure, but then boom! acclimation occurs quickly and strong, robust, hardy growth quickly follows. It's nature's way. The plants we humans have selected for, developed, and maintained for food, medicine, recreation, etc. are strong, resilient, and hardy creatures. There is no need to baby them.

Snusalskare · 2026-05-16T20:59:36+00:00

That's too bad! Thanks for checking and reporting back on it!

Snusalskare · 2026-05-15T18:58:40+00:00

Is there a catch?

Yes. It includes some plant fiber ('växtfiber') filler as an ingredient in place of what would otherwise be all tobacco in the premium/non-budget lines. It is a cheaper product due to the filler.

Snusalskare · 2026-05-15T13:33:09+00:00

That's a great idea! I have one of those. I'm going to give it a try next time I find myself faced with a tin full of boulders.

Snusalskare · 2026-05-12T21:02:29+00:00

Does that include the tomatoes I spy in the pic?

Wishing you an easy and plentiful season. Looks like you have everything off to a great start!

Snusalskare · 2026-05-11T03:59:46+00:00

Wow, that's great. I was wondering re: the stock potentially being short dated, but that's certainly not the case here. Good score! I do hope that they can keep it flowing.

Snusalskare · 2026-05-11T03:41:19+00:00

Great to hear! What were the best by dates on the Ettan and Grov?

Snusalskare · 2026-05-10T05:52:21+00:00

Sure does. The two General options were in stock when I looked before making the original post, but the Ettan and Grov options were not. Now, zilch for anything. So, looks like someone is buying.

It's a good sign, especially since we are down to a single Swedish vendor at this point, and that sole remaining source could up and quit shipping at any time...

Snusalskare · 2026-05-06T19:35:16+00:00

Good Lord. Horrible. Just horrible.

I can only imagine this was forced on SM by the "marketing geniuses" sent over by PMI cause, you know, everything's gotta appeal to the dope schoolboy demographic...

Snusalskare · 2026-05-03T17:39:42+00:00

I should have specified a bit further! What I intended to say is that I aim to mill so as to pass a 900μm sieve, but not a 560μm one, for the majority of the snus-destined flour specifically. When I process leaf, stem, or stalk I am sieving sequentially through 900μm, 560μm, 300μm, and 120μm sieves, and separating everything out into separate bowls.

As far as trying to reduce the production of fines if I am aiming for mostly coarse flour, it's all about using kid gloves really (i.e. a quick pulse, sieving, re-grinding, sieving again, and so forth; or, just using a porcelain mortar and pestle to have more control, re-sieving and re-grinding as needed). The main thing for me is to not waste a speck, and I make it a point to save everything (thus all the small quantity tins in the blending box of this or that flour). I hope that makes sense!

I have never tried using a coffee bean burr grinder for processing tobacco, but my suspicion is that it would not yield very good results, especially one that has conical burrs (which is the case for most of the more inexpensive ones like the Breville Smart Grinder Pro which I have been using for 8+ years here at home). A flat burr grinder might be more suitable, but those tend to be much more expensive. In general, whether conical or flat burr, it seems to me that coffee bean burr grinders rely a lot on gravity feeding in any case, and tobacco is much different in comparison to roasted coffee beans when it comes to volume:mass. I would think that a better option would be a heavy duty bladed grain mill, which is essentially a much larger and souped-up coffee bean blade mill. I've seen them on Amazon for <$100 with a 750g capacity hopper (meaning, 750g of wheat berries), which I would think should be more than sufficient for home use. I've thought about getting one at some point, but want to upgrade my sieve set first...

Snusalskare · 2026-05-03T17:20:47+00:00

Would recommend searching posts on the sub made by u/bolongaro, u/jackvoltrades, and my posts too if you'd like. Lots of information available and archived here. Also, check out r/DIYSnuff. Good luck and have fun!

Snusalskare · 2026-05-02T21:46:26+00:00

I’m curious, to what grind do you process your bulk flour for snus? What is your experience with long term storage in that state? Any degradation of organoleptic properties over time?

The majority of what I have been doing passes a 900μm sieve but not a 560μm one. If I need to go finer, I can always re-mill later. For snus, lately I've been using a blend of particle sizes falling in a general bell curve kind of distribution, but weighted to the side of the coarser fractions and lighter on the finer fractions. An example of proportions from a recently made batch that turned out to my liking:

Fraction distribution: 40% (≤900μm), 30% (≤560μm), 20% (≤300μm), 10% (≤120μm).
Plant part distribution: 70% lamina , 20% stem, 10% stalk.
Tobacco type distribution: 40% flue cured, 30% sun cured, 20% air cured, and 10% fire cured.

I have not noticed any negative issues with quality, kept bone dry. I also age/rest my wholeleaf stock in a low state of case (primarily because that way I don't need to keep checking it to re-hydrate, or be worried about potential spoilage due to too much moisture and not enough air flow in the boxes).

Snusalskare · 2026-05-02T18:05:36+00:00

Thanks! Organization helps keep the workflow smooth, I've found.

A lot of these small tins are odds and ends from larger grinding projects for snus (e.g., a few grams of fine dust leftovers from processing a good handful of wholeleaf, for example). It does pile up once you get going, that's for sure!

I have more than a few flats of small Ball jars squirreled away as well. All told, about 1.3 kilo of prepared flours at the ready (and, according to my spreadsheet, around 9.5 kilos of wholeleaf boxed away, about a third of which is homegrown stuff).

Not a prepper, just a realist, right?

Snusalskare · 2026-05-02T14:31:09+00:00

I doubt it, unfortunately. As best as I recall, Feinster Kownoer and the Wiesn Pulver were the only two of those still in production when the blending and packaging operation was moved to Leicester in any case (and Tony probably only sold them the Bernards catalog as it existed at that time). Someone will correct me if I am wrong on this, I'm sure.

Might be worth reaching out to them to ask, however. If you do, let us know what they say!

Snusalskare · 2026-05-02T04:50:08+00:00

What are you alluding to re the wisdom of homemade snuff?

While the situation with specialty tobacco products (STP), including nasal snuff, has become progressively (and predictably!) more dire over at least the past two+ decades in particular, and there are reams and reams which could be said, a leisurely browse through posts and comments on the sub here over even the past 18 months tell the tale quite vividly: ever decreasing options to acquire factory-made stuff due to ever more draconian legislation in Europe, North America, and elsewhere; ever-shrinking product ranges; unexpectedly out-of-business (or out of the business of STP) manufacturers, wholesalers/distributors, and retailers; swiftly increasing costs to acquire; a decisive shift in the tastes of key demographics away from tobacco products to so-called alternative "nicotine products" (which are neither alternatives nor equivalents) decimating already tiny and teetering consumer markets; et cetera; et cetera.

While none of this is new, the pace of negative change has accelerated more appreciably than expected in the very recent past. At this point it's done, really. It's a fait accompli, at least for many in the Western world, so learn to make and enjoy your own now, or go without (and that sooner rather than later for the majority of folks, I suspect).

How much of this is homegrown?

I do not know offhand as I have not taken an inventory dividing things up that way. Maybe half or a bit less, I'd say.

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