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Tea Tree Oil

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Description

Tea tree oil, also known as melaleuca oil or ti tree oil, is an essential oil with a fresh camphoraceous odor and a colour that ranges from pale yellow to nearly colourless and clear.

General Specifications of Tea Tree Oil:
Appearance: Colorless to pale yellow clear liquid
Odor: Characteristic warm, spicy odor
Solubility: Soluble in alcohol & oils. Insoluble in water
Specific Gravity: 0.885 to 0.906 @ 20°C
Optical Rotation: +5.0 to +15.0 @ 20°C
Refractive Index: 1.475 to 1.482 @ 20°C

Tea Tree Oil BP Grade
 Melaleuca Oil
Ph Eur

DEFINITION
Essential oil obtained by steam distillation from the foliage and terminal branchlets of  Melaleuca alternifolia (Maiden and Betch) Cheel, M. linariifolia Smith, M. dissitiflora  F. Mueller and/or other species of Melaleuca

CHARACTERS
Appearance: Clear, mobile, colourless or pale yellow liquid. Characteristic odour.

IDENTIFICATION
First identification B.
Second identification A.
A. Thin-layer chromatography.
B. Examine the chromatograms obtained in the test for chromatographic profile.
Results: The characteristic peaks in the chromatogram obtained with the test  solution are similar in retention time to those in the chromatogram obtained with the  reference solution.

TESTS
Relative density: 0.885 to 0.906.
Refractive index: 1.475 to 1.482.
Optical rotation: + 5° to + 15°.
Chromatographic profile:
Gas chromatography.
The percentages are within  the following ranges:
a-pinene: 1.0 per cent to 6.0 per cent.
sabinene: maximum 3.5 per cent.
a-terpinene: 5.0 per cent to 13.0 per cent.
limonene: 0.5 per cent to 4.0 per cent.
cineole: maximum 15.0 per cent.
g-terpinene: 10.0 per cent to 28.0 per cent.
p-cymene: 0.5 per cent to 12.0 per cent.
terpinolene: 1.5 per cent to 5.0 per cent.
terpinen-4-ol : minimum 30.0 per cent.
aromadendrene: maximum 7.0 per cent.
a-terpineol : 1.5 per cent to 8.0 per cent.

STORAGE
At a temperature not exceeding 25C.

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