Basil Essential Oil (Sweet)
Ocimum Basilicum
SKU: AI/EO-011
Specifications
| CAS No. | 8015-73-4 |
|---|---|
| Method of Extraction | Steam Distillation Method |
| Consistency / Colour | Colorless to pale yellow with a fresh, sweet-spicy, and balsamic-woody undertone |
| Origin | India |
| Source | Leaves |
| Specific Gravity | 0.954 - 0.994 |
| Optical Rotation | -15° to -5° |
| Flash Point | 94°C |
| Solubility | Soluble in Alcohol & Oil and insoluble in water |
| Storage Conditions | Cool and dry place, away from direct Sunlight |
| Best Before | 3 years |
Basil Essential Oil (Sweet) - An Overview
People have been using basil and its derivatives to spice culinary dishes, flavor tea, and heal respiratory or skin care problems. Basil leaves have a high content of linalool and methyl chavicol compounds. Pristine Perfumes distills the leaves, twigs, and floral tops of basil to extract a thin clear concentrated essential oil. This essential oil smells herbaceous, licorice-like, sweet, and spicy due to its linalool, fenchol, eugenol, and methyl chavicol compounds. It is an energizing oil with expectorant, anti-inflammatory, digestive, febrifuge, and soothing properties. Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine practitioners use basil leaves in many herbal formulations to treat multiple health conditions.
Botany
Basil is a tender plant and culinary herb in the Lamiaceae (mint) family. There are more than 200 species of basil cultivated worldwide. The plant develops well in temperate climates and is native to tropical regions of central Africa and Southeast Asia. The Western world knows it as sweet basil or Genovese basil that grows with an average height between 1 to 5 ft. and bears richly green, ovate aromatic leaves and small white flowers.
Variety:Basil Essential Oil (Sweet)
Most users resort to this oil as a folk remedy for flu, cough, and cold. Sweet basil oil has an appealing aroma besides therapeutic properties. Pristine Perfumes offers 100% pure essential oil manufactured hygienically in its manufacturing premises. Customers worldwide appreciate us as an authentic basil oil sweet wholesale supplier.
