Industrial packaging of Galanga essential oils
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Galangal

Pure and natural essential oil

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  • Code: T1597
  • INCI: Alpinia galanga
  • CAS: 8024-40-6
  • EINECS: 283-399-6
  • Family: Zingiberaceae
  • Type: pure essential oil (EO)
  • Chemotype: 1,8 cineole (minimum 40%)
  • Food flavoring: yes (according to EC Regulation 1334/2008)
  • Extraction method: steam distillation
  • Purity: 100%
  • Origin: Indonesia

Extraction

Galanga essential oil is obtained by steam distillation of the rhizomes and appears as a straw-yellow liquid that solidifies below 16°C, with a fresh camphoraceous-spicy scent with a medicinal-balsamic undertone.

Property

Galanga essential oil has antiseptic, balsamic, bactericidal, and stimulating properties.
Diluted in a vegetable oil, it produces a medicinal ointment that is effective against various respiratory problems and for soothing the effects of fatigue.
Popular herbal tradition even attributes its properties to promoting circulation, thus promoting muscle relaxation; for this purpose, in aromatherapy, a few drops are suggested in a hot bath. Diffused throughout the room, it promotes drowsiness.
It blends well with myrrh and oakmoss absolutes, as well as with the essential oils of Moroccan chamomile, cinnamon, clove, coriander, copaiba, larch, lavender, mastic, myrtle, patchouli, black pepper, mountain pine, rosemary, opoponax, and citrus oils in general.

Uses

Galanga essential oil has long been used in liqueur making (for over two hundred years, it has been an ingredient in the well-known bitter "Petrus," and in the Middle Ages, it was already the main ingredient in the preparation of a popular fortified wine of the time: Hippocras).
This essential oil is occasionally used (as a fragrance component) in perfumery, cosmetics, and soap making.
The relevant technical and safety documentation for the product is available upon request.

Botany

Native to Hainan Island (China), galangal is also known as "Chinese ginger". It is a rhizomatous herbaceous plant similar to the European cane that grows to a height of about one meter, with large leaves and red fruits. It is often confused with both greater galangal (Galanga officinalis) and ginger. It is cultivated in China, Japan, Indonesia, and Thailand both for culinary purposes (a well-known ingredient in curry) and to obtain its essential oil.