The essential oil of tangerine is produced by cold-pressing from fresh peel of Citrus reticulate. It is reddish orange to brownish orange liquid with a pleasant orange-like color.
It is soluble in most fixed oils and in mineral oil, slightly soluble in propylene glycol, and relatively insoluble in glycerin. It may contain a suitable antioxidant.
The fragrance is sweet, sparkling, fresh, young and lively. The true essential oil helps to cheer, inspire, and strengthen.
Tangerine helps ease tension, fear, sadness, irritability and insomnia. Main constituents of tangerine essential oil are limonene, methyl methylanthranilate, geraniol, citral, citronellal, n-octylaldehyde, cadinene and linalool.
Tangerine oil contains about 8% of tetraterpenes.
They are one of the prime sources of color.
It used in soup, cosmetics and perfumes, especially colognes.
Oil of tangerine
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