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- Natural Essential Oils..
NATURAL
ESSENTIAL OILS.
Essential oils are also known as Ethereal or
Volatile oils. They are odouriferous bodies of an oily nature derived from
Vegetable sources. In India following essential oils are produced.
Essential oils are produced in various internal and external glands of
certain flowers, leaves, barks, wood and roots. Chemically these oils are
mixtures, usually very complex, of terpenses, sesqui terpenes, their
oxygenated derivatives, and other aromatic compounds. Many contain 20 to
30 constituents covering the entire range of organic materials.
“Aromatic” does not have the usual chemical meaning in the essential oil
business. An aromatic chemical in this case, is any compound that has
specific, useful odour. As old as the industry itself is the question of
whether the plant gets any specific benefit from its essential oils.
PROCESSES FOR EXTRACTION OF ESSENTIAL OIL.
Almost all essential oils from various sources are extracted by
distillation method. There are three types of distillation methods namely
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1 Water distillation.
2 Water & Steam distillation.
3 Direct steam distillation.
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