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Peru Balsam Oil, Olibanum Oil, Pimento Essential Oils

Also known as ethereal oils, essential oils are concentrated and hydrophobic liquids which consist of volatile aroma compounds from plants. They are derived from different sections of plant like leaves, flowers, bark, wood, resin, seeds and roots. These natural essential oils are defined by the distinctive fragrance and essence of the plant from which they are manufactured. Generally extracted by the processes like distillation and solvent extraction, these fragrance oils essentially find their applications in perfumes, cosmetics, soaps and for adding scents to incense sticks and household cleaning products. While in solvent extraction the fragrance oils are extracted by using solvents like hexane, methyl alcohol, the left over residue is the absolute.

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Essential oils – a fragrance and beneficial gift of nature

Essential oils are botanical extracts of various plant parts such as leaves, seeds, barks, stems, flowers, roots etc. They are natural extract of a plant form. They are natural aromatic compounds and are both beautiful and powerfully fragrant. They are also known as essences, volatile oils, ethereal oils or aetherolea, or simply as the “oil of” the plant from which they were extracted, for example, “oil of lavender”. An oil is “essential” in the sense that it carries a distinctive scent or essence of the plant from which it has been extracted. In addition to giving plants their distinctive smells, essential oils also provide plants with protection against predators and disease and play a role in plant pollination...

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