Essential oils and their role as flavouring agents in medicines, cosmetics and allied products

ABSTRACT

About 200 essential oils are known commercially, but only 25 of them are produced in large volume. Some of the essential oils and the countries producing them have been mentioned. A brief account of over 30 essential oils concerning mode of their production, their chemical nature and uses in numerous pharmaceutical preparations have been described. Moreover, the users have been cautioned against their excessive doses, which lead to problems of kidney, bladder and urethra. Local production of even those essential oils which may be produced locally is almost non-existing Attention has been drawn to remedy the situation