Essential oils
Practical Action
The oil should be stored in brown glass bottles or drums, tightly closed and with the minimum
possible headspace as oxygen in the air reacts with many oils.
References and further reading
Minor Oil Crops FAO Agricultural Services Bulletin 94, B. Axtell, FAO,1992
Essential oil distillation Food chain No 24, Practical Action, 1999
Quality Control of Essential Oils: Series on Aromatic Plants of Sri Lanka Booklet No 4, Ceylon
Institute of Scientific & Industrial Research (CISIR), 1981
Useful addresses
CISIR is now called the Industrial Technology Institute (ITI)
ITI
363, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka
Telephone : +94-11-2379800
Fax : +94-11-2379850
Email : mailto:info@iti.lk
Website: http://iti.lk/
Equipment suppliers
Please note this is a selective list of suppliers and does not imply endorsement by Practical
Action.
Newhouse Manufacturing Co., Inc.
1048 North Sixth Street
Redmond, OR 97756
USA
Tel: +1 541 548 1055,
E-mail: info@newhouse-mfg.com
Producers of the Newhouse Mini-still.
Texarome Inc
P.O. Box 159
1.5 miles East Hwy. 337
Leakey, Texas 78873,
USA
Tel: + 1 830 232-6079 or toll free (800) 544-1363
Fax: +1 830 232-5716
E-mail: texarome@hctc.net
Producers of essential oil stills and essential oils
John Dore & Co. Ltd
282 Chessington Road, Ewell
Epsom, Surrey, KT19 9XG
United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 (0)20 83931629
Fax: + 44 (0)20 87867627
Website: http://www.johndore.co.uk
John Dore & Co. Ltd supplies copper and stainless steel fabrications comprising: distillation
plant for potable alcohol, essential oil stills, water stills, caramel pans, tanks and heat
exchangers.
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