Essential Oils

A versatile ingredient whether to add that special touch to your fragrance or awake your clients' taste buds or simply to enhance a clean smell in your home.

Basil (sweet) Oil

Extracted from the leaves of Ocimum bacilicum L variety.

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Uses

Extensively in all kinds of flavours like confectionery, baked goods and spicy sauces, soups, tomato pasted and pickles as in meats, some dental and oral products and perfume compounds

Typical Analysis

Appearance

Thick liquid

Colour

Light green

Odour

characteristics of basil

Specific Gravity

0.912 - 0.935

Optical Rotation

-7° 24 - 10° 36

Refractive Index

1.4821 - 1.4939

Ester Content, Calculated As Linalyl Acetate

0.8 - 5.2%

Total Alcohol Content, Calculated As Linalool

31.7 - 41.8%

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Packaging

1, 5 and 20 litre bottles. Drums 180 kilos.

Storage

Light sensitive product. Store in tightly closed origina container in a dry, cool and dark place in light resistant containers.

Bay Oil

Extracted from the leaves of Laurus nobilis L an evergreen tree or shrub popular in the Mediterranean.

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Uses

Valuable ingredient in flavours of savoury products, meats, soups, sauces, baked goods ethnic foods and confectionery. It has also important components used in Perfumery and it is extensively used in toiletry products.