Industrial packaging of hairy mint essential oils
Industrial packaging of hairy mint essential oils Laboratory and warehouse Botany Mentha suaveolens

Apple mint

Pure and natural essential oil

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  • Code: T1584
  • INCI: Mentha suaveolens
  • CAS: 84082-62-2
  • EINECS: 282-015-4
  • Family: Lamiaceae
  • Type: pure essential oil (EO)
  • Chemotype: Piperitone oxide (minimum 75%)
  • Food flavoring: No
  • Extraction method: steam distillation
  • Purity: 100%
  • Origin: Italy (Sicily)

Extraction

Hairy Mentha villosa essential oil is obtained by steam distillation of the entire fresh flowering plant (the yield is very low) and appears as a clear, pale yellow liquid with a penetrating minty-bitter odor that at times recalls the sourness of an unripe apple or even pineapple pulp.

Property

Hairy Mentha villosa essential oil, an extraordinary, rare, and precious product, is nontoxic and non-irritating (except at high concentrations). It has analgesic, antifermentative, antifungal, antispasmodic, antiseptic, and carminative properties.
Recent studies conducted in the USA (published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information) have scientifically proven the excellent effect of this essential oil in the treatment of certain forms of vaginal mycosis, especially candidiasis.
It blends well with the essential oils of bucco, calamus, eucalyptus, lavender, marjoram, oregano, with other mints, and even with benzoin absolute.

Uses

A relatively rare distillate, Mentha villosa essential oil is primarily used in pharmaceutical formulations and, rarely, in cosmetics.
The relevant technical and safety documentation for the product is available upon request.

Botany

Also known as "woolly mint" or, in Anglo-Saxon form, "apple mint ," botanically, Mentha villosa represents a specific variety of Mentha rotundifolia that should not be confused with common wild mint. It is an aromatic perennial herbaceous plant up to ninety centimeters tall, with an erect, sparsely branched, hairy stem, oblong, velvety, wrinkled gray-green leaves, and pinkish-white flowers gathered in fragrant inflorescences. A
rather sporadic species, it grows spontaneously in some Mediterranean areas of Europe.