DESCRIPTION
Juniper Berry Oil is steam distilled from crushed, dried or partially dried ripe berries. The larger part of commercial juniper berry oil is derived from fermented fruits. The extract is of water white or of very pale yellow color and has a fresh, warm, rich balsamic, woody sweet & pine needle like odour. The oil is found in abundant quantity before perfect ripeness & darkening of the fruit, when it changes to resin and the oil quantity varies from 2.34 to 0.31 per cent.
COMMON NAMES
Juniper Berry Oil.
BLENDS WITH
Myrrh; Laurel Leaf; Elemi; Labdanum; Pine Needle.
CONSTITUENTS
Resin, gum, sugar, water, wax, lignin, salines, juniper camphor.
USES
It is used in perfumes and flavours as well as has medicinal & aromatherapy usage. In some cases it is also used in treating migraine. Some of the other medicinal values it has include meeting the treatment demands of seborrhoea of scalp, good for acne, colic, indigestion, fluid retention, cystitis, scanty rheumatic pain, pyelitis leucorrhoea, anxiety, stress and insomnia.
CERTIFICATION
Indian Certified Organic (ICO) and Department of Agriculture.