Fir needle oil, Siberian

Fir Needle Oil, Siberian Type, occurs as an almost colorless or faintly yellow liquid with a piney, balsamic odor. It is the volatile oil obtained by steam distillation from needles and twigs of Abies sibirica Lebed. (Fam. Pinaceae). It is soluble in most fixed oils and in mineral oil. It is insoluble in glycerin and in propylene glycol. 

Synonyms Abies sibirica Abies sibirica needle oil Abies sibirica oil Fir needle oil, Siberian Fir Siberian oil... 

Siberian fir needle oil is obtained by steam distillation of needles and twigs of Abies sibirica Ledeb., the Siberian silver fir. It is an almost colorless or pale yellow liquid with a characteristic fir odor. 

Pine needle oil Pine needle oil, Siberian Siberian fir needle oil... 

Oil of Fir—Siberian, Oil of pine oleum abjetis Siberian pine needle oil. Volatile oil from fresh leaves of Abies sibirica Ledeb., Pinaceae. Constit About 40% esters calculated as borny] acetate pinene, camphene, dipantene, and phellandrene. 

Fir and pine needle oils. General term for the "essential oils, obtained by steam distillation from needles (branch tips, young shoots) of various Pinaceae species of the genera Pinus, Abies, Picea, and Tsuga. They mostly possess a fresh, resiny odor and consist mainly of monoterpene hydrocarbons such as pi-nenes, phellandrenes (see p-menthadienes), cam-phene, myrcene, 3- carene, and limonene (see p-menthadienes). The component mainly responsible for the odor is (-)-bornyl acetate (C12H20O2, Mr 196.29) which can be present, as in Siberian pine needle oil, to more than 30%. The oils are used in the production of perfumes for men, for perfuming household articles like cleaners, bath products, sauna oils, and in pharmaceutical preparations such as anti-rheumatic oint-... 

Primarily, the distinction lies in the use of bioactive silicon (silatrane and silocane substances) as the aetive component (AC), and in natural Russian cosmetics Baikal collection medicinal plants -silicon-philes (nettle, horse-tail, fern, greater celandine, maral root etc.) as well as such truly Russian Siberian components as cedar, buckthorn, fir needles, birch oils fly-agaric, birch black mushroom, asp rind, berries and leaves of mountain ash bergenia, aconite, Rhodiola and maral roots are used. The composition of sila-cosmetics may be represented by ... 

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