essential oils project

[Genci]

hi everyone

i've got to complete my essential oils profile project for my advanced aroma & was wondering if anyone had any info on either rose phytol or moroccan chammomile or knew of any websites i could look at.

sitting my A&P exam on thurs so will post up any ques i remember on the past papers section. revising sucks!!

thanks x

 

[Smoochy "Tin Machine"]

Hi Shaleen

Phytols are extracted by using a harmless low-boiling refrigerant gas that captures more of the plants components and produces a fragrance more true to nature. It is used for some flowers that are too delicate for steam distillation.

Dr. Peter Wilde patented the process for making phytols, "phytonics" as he calls it. Some of the benefits of his process (compared to steam distillation, hydrocarbon extraction, chlorinated solvent extraction and super-critical carbon dioxiide extraction) are that the process is highly energy efficient,
typically using less than 1% of the energy required to process by steam
distillation. Phytosol solvents used are not flammable, non-toxic, are not
ozone depleters (because they are never emitted from the phytonics process
plant. Being completely inside the sealed equipment, they are continually
recycled).
The equipment needs no cooling water. It operates from a 13 amp domestic electrical plug socket (or small generator) and is portable so that it can be taken to the crop and operated in the field. Excellent quality oils are produced (I am told) in high yield at a low capital and low operating cost.

It is a relatively new concept and is gaining more in popularity. The Rose phytol has the same properties as rose done the conventional way.

Chamomile maroc however is not the same as the other chamomiles and is chemically very different. The oil is extracted by steam distillation from the flowering tops of the plant. Its properties are: Antispasmodic, cholagogue, emmenagogue, hepatic and sedative. It is gerenally used for:
Sensitive skin (soothing), colic, headache, insomnia, menopause and for its fragrance (it is extensively used in perfumery). Its main chemical constituents are:
Alcohols - (Santolina alcohol, being the main one), Monoterpenes - (a-pinene, the main one) and it has a small percentage of 1.8 cinelole (oxides) amongst others.

Hope this helps and

Good luck with your assignment

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[Engerhaech]

thank you so much for all that info. these were the last 2 oils i needed to do profiles for so this is a great help. now i can make a start on them & get my project out of the way.

shaleen x