Sensation effects

The consumer s expectations towards natural, creative products with sensational effects increase, while the tolerance threshold for accepting expensive brands in the food sector decreases dramatically, especially in Western Europe. This trend is actually a leading one price restrictions constitute a decisive criterion in each and every product development. 

Isopulegol is mainly used in mint-like flavor compositions. Pure (-)-isopulegol is also used to impart cooling sensation effects to cosmetic and pharmaceutical preparations [82f]. 

The sensational effects of alkaloids when introduced into the animal organism operate for the most part upon highly specialized nervous tissue which has no counterpart in the plant. It would be profitless to look for analogous responses, but it does not follow that no others of different kinds exist. A variety of such possibilities have been probed indeed, the earlier investigators seem to have been unduly preoccupied with such problems to the detriment of more profitable aspects of alkaloid studies. 

HEALTH SYMPTOMS inhalation (cough, burning sensation, irritates eyes, skin and respiratory system) eye/skin contact (redness, pain) ingestion (cough, nausea, burning sensation, effects on the liver). 

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