Geraniol

Intro

The smell of geraniol is the smell of blooming roses, which is the main sweetener in the perfume industry and the main ingredient in fake rose essential oil. Therefore, many unscrupulous merchants use geranium as rose oil. Aromatherapy geraniol is like hot love, passionate yet charming, is a brave love warrior. Geraniol has the best antibacterial properties of any monoterpenoid alcohol, so trans-geraniol is effective for viral skin herpes.

Source of Geraniol

Baisfu Geraniol is mainly derived from geranium, rose, rose grass, Java citronella, and bee mint. It is also found in small amounts in high grade bergamot, Happy sage, wild orange, and ylang ylang essential oils.

Use

Geranyl is the main agent of rose fragrance, and it is also an indispensable flavoring material in various floral fragrances. It can also regard as a sweetening agen. And can also use to prepare food, soap, and daily cosmetics flavor. Products made from natural essential oils, when preparing food, daily makeup essence, containing geranyl alcohol more than 90%. When preparing soap essence, containing geranyl alcohol more than 80%. Industrial products geraniol and nerolol are the raw materials for the manufacture of vanillin, ionone and vitamin A. Various esters synthesized from it are also good spices.

Production Method

This product can obtain from natural essential oils such as citronella oil and Indian rose vanilla oil. adding anhydrous calcium chloride to essential oils can produce crystalline derivatives of it. Which are decompose into geraniol and calcium chloride when exposed to water. And the extracted oil layer is washed in warm water and then distilled by steam to obtain pure products.
Citral was reduce in dilute ethanol solution of acetic acid with the participation of sodium amalgam. Or from linalool in boric acid or borate catalyzed by co-heating with water.