Patchouli Essential Oil Distillers

In ancient times, patchouli had a long history of medicinal use, specifically for snake bites and insect bites. Its essential oil is distilled from young leaves, which can treat scalp and hair problems and help cell regeneration. Patchouli essential oil is distilled from young leaves. Before distillation, the leaves must be dried and fermented first. It has a strong earthy smell and is a wine-like essential oil. The longer it is, the better it smells. Patchouli essential oil is a good fixative and an indispensable raw material in the perfume industry. In aromatherapy, a drop of patchouli essential oil in the compound essential oil can make the fragrance last longer.

Patchouli essential oil is made by distilling fresh leaves of patchouli, which undergo a slight fermentation process before distillation. The freshly distilled essential oil is transparent and light yellow, with a sharp and high-pitched smell, which is not suitable for direct use at this time. After a year, the aromatic molecules will settle and merge, the sharp smell will become calm, and the oil color will gradually turn red and become viscous.

As time goes by, the smell of patchouli essential oil will become more stable and deep, and eventually become a dark amber viscous oil, which is the real mature patchouli essential oil. Its aroma is long-lasting and has an earthy taste.

Main ingredients

Patchouli alcohol, patchouli ene, eugenol, juniperene, etc. Among them, the structure of patchouli ene is very similar to the azure hydrocarbon in blue chamomile, so it also has the same antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. Dropping a few drops of patchouli essential oil into the hot water for foot bathing can achieve the purpose of activating blood circulation and meridians, and can also achieve the effect of removing athlete's foot and foot odor.

Before distillation, the raw materials must be dried and fermented first. Because the camphor-like fragrance is very strong, the amount of spices used each time must be strictly controlled. The unique spicy and rosin in the spices will become more obvious over time. This is the best lasting among the known spices. One-third of high-end perfumes use it.

Dark amber viscous liquid, with an earthy musky smell, and a long-lasting fragrance. When the pungent top smell disappears, the smell becomes sweeter, and becomes sweeter and sweeter as time goes by.

The fragrance has the effect of refreshing and exciting, so it is known as an aphrodisiac.

The feeling of earth, coupled with the sweet smell of spices, the essential oil of patchouli is like a good wine. The longer it is, the better the effect and smell. Its earthy smell gives people a real and balanced feeling, and can be used as a perfume.

The extraction process of patchouli oil mainly includes the following steps:

1. Raw material preparation

Collection and selection: Select fresh or well-preserved patchouli leaves after drying as raw materials. Fresh patchouli vanilla has almost no aroma. It needs to be dried and piled for 3 days and fermented, and then dried to produce essential oil.

Pretreatment: The patchouli leaves are properly cleaned and cut for the subsequent extraction process.

2. Extraction method

Steam distillation:

Put the pretreated patchouli leaves into the distillation equipment and add an appropriate amount of water.

Heat the distillation equipment to allow water vapor to pass through the patchouli leaf layer, carrying out the volatile oil components in the patchouli leaves.

Condensate the collected oil-water mixture, and obtain patchouli oil by static stratification or centrifugal separation.