Patchouli oil-FEMA 2838-CAS NO 8014-09-3

 

Patchouli oil properties
Boiling point 287 ° C (lit.)

Density 0.963 g/mL at 25 ° C (lit.)

FEMA 2838
Refractive index n20 / D 1.509 (lit.)

The flash point of 230 ° F

 

definition
Patchouli oil old say sent super strength oil (or the autumn lee oil), and it is the literal translation of the English name patchouli oil. Patchouli is lamium matches the sting of plants grass (pogostemon cablin Banth.; P. Patchouli pelletiver Var. Snavis Hook; P. Heyneanus Benth.), is a kind of common of herbal plants, patchouli oil is the main medicinal ingredients, at the same time, it is one of the important spices industry of natural spices, with a sweet, sweet and fragrant herbs in the natural oil.
origin
Patchouli is originated in Indonesia and the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore now, Brazil, Paraguay, India, seychelles, reunion, Madagascar, Mauritius, Japan, Europe and China have planting. The main producing area of China for zhanjiang, guangdong and the surrounding area, the 90 s hainan also have planting in large scale. In the industry of hainan planting pogostemon patchouli called hainan pogostemon patchouli or Joan pogostemon patchouli.
preparation
By lamium plant patchouli (pogostemon cablin Banth main varieties.; P. Patchouli pelletiver Var. Snavis Hook; P. Heyneanus Benth.) leaves, branches and roots by steam distillation stem from fermented treatment or the dry leaves carry oil, oil rate to 2%-3.5%. The best ratio was 68% branches, leaves 32%. At present except steam distillation technology was used to extract the oil patchouli, molecular distillation can also find patchouli decoloring and on to wide mellow herb enrichment processing. At present the main technical each big natural drug companies and spices companies have used. The molecular distillation processing, get patchouli oil usually named super patchouli oil, super patchouli oil aroma more body, no noise taste, appearance is more clear, wide mellow herb content of up to 50% or so, the content may be a product of the company technology differs somewhat different.
Patchouli oil and pogostemon patchouli oil
It is worth noting that, still have a kind of natural spices-pogostemon patchouli oil, oil pogostemon patchouli from lamium plants of the genus pogostemon patchouli Agastache rugosus pogostemon patchouli (Fisch. Et Mey.) O.k tze extract of natural spices. Patchouli oil and oil pogostemon patchouli, two different sources, is the equivalent of different plant extracts, the chemical components and pharmacological are different.