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 ROSE OIL
The oil is prepared by using fresh oil-yielding rose blossoms (Rose damascena – Miller) through water distillation. The oil is oily, transparent liquid heterogeneous mass at temperature below 23 ºC. It has yellow (yellow-green) colour and fine, warm, dense blossom scent with soft hot honey remnants. The main ingredients of rose oil are citronellol, geraniol, nerol, linalool, concentrated oil alcohols, β-phenyllithium alcohol, farnesol, terpinene 1-ol-4 and acetates of specified alcohols such as: geranyl acetate, citronellyl acetate, neryl acetate, linalyl acetate, etc., free acids, aldehydes – oil and aromatic, geranial, neral, cetones, phenols and phenole ethers, normal paraffin, hydrocarbons, phenole ethers, normal paraffin hydrocarbons, rose oxide.
Application: Bulgarian rose oil is used widely in fine perfumery, cosmetics and medicine.
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FEATURED PRODUCT
Lavender oil
The oil is obtained by steam distillation of lavender blossoms (Lavandula angustifolia - Miller ). In the composition of lavender oil we have about 90% monoterpene and about 10% sesquiterpenes amd polymers. The main components are lynalil acetate and linalool. There are also citric, β-ocimene, α and β-pinene, camphene, myrcene, 1.8-cineol, terpinene, ethylmylcetone, p-cymene, borneol, geraniol, terpineol, lavandulol and their acetates, nerol, camphor, etc.
Lavender oil is used widely in perfumery industry as active ingredient in cosmetics, medicine, technology, faience industry. It is also used as solvent of metal oxides, salts, lacquers and paints. The oil has clearly expressed antiseptic and healing effects. Lavender oil is also used for isolation of aromatic ingredients lynalil acetate and linalool. Lavender oil is the most widely used aromatic product in aroma therapy.
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