Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Ingredient Name
- Food Ingredients Functions
- Starting Raw Material
- Wood
- Botanical Name
- Juniperus oxycedrus L.
- Botanical family
- Cupressaceae
- CAS No.
- 2233005.0
- Ingredients
- Cade Oil
- Technologies
- Product Families
- Main Origins
Spaint
Features & Benefits
- Product Highlights
The harvesting is done from the wild, due to the abundant natural population of Cade. It is produced by empyreumatic (destructive) distillation of the wood, usually burning other plant residues. The distillate is left to stand for 15 to 20 days, after which it is separated into three layers: a bottom layer of tar, a watery layer and the top layer of essential oil.
The product obtained is a clear, orange-brown to dark brown, oily liquid with an intense "tar-like", smoky-phenolic odor. This oil has been banned for oral use, and there is another oil similar in composition, obtained from Juniperus sabina, which is much more abundant, faster growing and unrestricted use, although the resulting oil is considerably more viscous, blackish, more difficult to handle and with less odor, not meeting also the specifications required by B.P.C.
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Food & Nutrition Applications
- Uses
Applications in fragrances, flavors, aromatherapy and cosmetics (only the rectified oil). Stimulant, purifying, antidandruff, and used for different dermatological diseases. It also has application in agronomy as repellent.
Properties
- Physical Form
Regulatory & Compliance
- Certifications & Compliance
- Regulation
- Monographs: British Pharmacopeia.
- IFRA: Specification/prohibited. Only rectified oil is permitted as a fragrance ingredient. The limit of PAHs should be not more than 1 ppb, when used Cade oil alone or in combination with rectified Birch tar oils.
- Safety summary: Use only rectified cade oil and do not use at more than 1%.
Technical Details & Test Data
- Chemical Profile & Chemotypes
Cade oil is obtained by dry distillation, so the wood burns and produce PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), such as benzo (a) pyrene, being this a potential carcinogenic compound. That is why it is done a rectification, lowering or getting rid of those hazardous compounds. The unrectified oil has in its composition a minor constituent called p-Cresol which has a demonstrated potential for nephrotoxicity at therapeutic doses.
Average values for the main compounds present in this oil are detailed below:
Cade Ex-Juniper RECTIFIED
- Delat-Cadiene: 24.0%
- Beta Caryophyllene: 6.0%
- Epicubenol: 8.7
- Cadalene: 1.3%
Cade Ex-Juniper CRUDE
- Delat-Cadiene: 12%
- Guaiacol: <1.5%
- Cadalene: 2.7%
- Phenol: 3%
- Cresols: <5%
- Alpha Cedrene: <5%
Cade Ex-Sabina CRUDE
- Guaiacol: 2.9%
- Phenol: 5.8%
- Cresols: 9.6%
- Alpha Cedrene: 12.8%