Description
INCI: Menthol
Menthol crystals are cooling, refreshing, and have a pleasantly strong minty aroma. They can be used in a broad variety of products including cosmetics, salves, balms, medicated creams, toothpaste, mouthwash, foot sprays, pain relief or cooling body products, shampoos, conditioners, liniments, shaving creams, oral or throat sprays, compresses, medicated oils, and cooling gels.
Menthol crystals are naturally produced through Peppermint (Mentha arvensis) essential oil extraction. Menthol is the solid constituentthis oil which gives the oil it's characteristic odour.
Menthol is obtained by subjecting the distilled oil of Mentha arvensis oil to a temperature of -22° C, by the aid of a freezing mixture, the menthol crystallizes out in satiny crystals and the liquid is removed while the low temperature is maintained.
They dissolve readily into alcohol or essential oils, and they can also be dissolved into water or oil at their melting point of 44° C
Typical usage: 1.5 -2%
This product is intended for external use only
