Detailed Product Description

Sandalwoood Oil - East Indian Santalum Album

Sandalwood Oil is basic ingredient in high quality soap and skin care preparation. It is highly found in South India as well as North India. It is a base oil but having tremendous therapeutic properties and healing components. 

Specific Gravity : 0.950
Optical Rotation : - 14.5 to -17 degree
Santalol  :Above 88%

About
Indian sandalwood, is currently a threatened species and consequently very expensive. In India it grows on the western ghats. In Hindu rituals chandan paste, prepared from the wood of the chandan tree, has occupied an important position of puja materials since antiquity. On the forehead, a tilaka (mark) of Chandan paste is applied during pujas. Deities representing violent attributes are often smeared with chandan paste to cool them down.Although all sandalwood trees in India and Nepal are government-owned and their harvest is strictly controlled, many trees are illegally cut down and smuggled out of the country. Sandalwood essential oil prices have risen up to $1000-1500 per kg in the last 5 years.

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