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Sandalwood Essential Oil, Sandal Essence, Sandalwood CO2 Extract & Sandalwood Dreams

Introduction: Sandalwood essential oil, Sandal Essence and the wood from the sandalwood tree are fragrant botanicals that have been held in the highest regard for millennia. Sandal Essence (aka Sandalwood Essence) is an exclusive crystallized essence produced for and imported by Eden Botanicals. It comes in a semi-solid form and is used as a natural perfume by applying a small piece to your skin. Please click here for more information or to purchase Sandal Essence. Sandalwood CO2 extract is a new and high tech method of obtaining pure sandalwood oil using non-toxic carbon dioxide as a solvent. Sandalwood Dreams is a proprietary essence oil blended by Eden Botanicals. Please click here for more information or to purchase Sandalwood Dreams.

Sandalwood oil is perhaps best known in the west as a sweet, warm, rich and woody essential oil used as a body fragrance as is, and as an ingredient in fragrant products such as incense, perfumes, aftershaves and other cosmetics. But the story of sandalwood, the divine fragrance goes much further. Sandalwood has been a part of the religious and spiritual traditions of India since prehistory and has been effectively used in traditional medicine for thousands of years.

Sandalwood oil is in high demand today and the resource is dwindling. This has lead to several unfavorable results; 1) sandalwood oil is one of the most adulterated essential oils; 2) the cost of sandalwood oil is raising dramatically, (about 25% per year); 3) due to the value of sandalwood oil the trees are being illegally cut. This leads to wasting of the resource as young trees are cut or trees are cut but the roots are left to rot (the roots are most valuable part of the tree for extracting oil from). Additionally, this illegal poaching has lead to several murders of forestry officials and other crimes indicative of the black market; 4) the resource is becoming scarce. The current production of sandalwood trees is not enough to meet the demand of consumers. The trees are difficult to grow and take at least 30 years to become suitable for harvesting. The forestry departments in India are regulating the amount of material that is cut and sold, but there are many demands for use of the land for cattle grazing, the need for the wood to keep people employed, etc.

The situation regarding sandalwood trees is getting worse and this divine wood and precious oil are becoming more and more precious. In the west, need to look for ways to responsively use this resource and to reduce our dependence on it. We should be looking for substitute oils, using less in our formulas, and regarding sandalwood oil as something very special to be used on special occasions.

The Sandalwood Tree: Sandalwood products are obtained from the sandalwood tree (Santalum album), which is a member of the Santalaceae family. It is known as white sandalwood, Mysore sandalwood, East Indian sandalwood, sandal, Chandan (Hindi), and tan xiang (Mandarin). The white sandalwood is an evergreen tree which grows to 50 feet. It naturally occurs in Eastern India in the states of Mysore, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnatika. It grows in a dry and rocky environment and reproduces by suckers and by seeds. The environmental conditions required by this tree are rather strict and not completely understood. Due to a combination of the environmental requirements and the necessity of living off a host plant, sandalwood is not easy to propagate. Even so it has been long cultivated in other Southeast Asian locations, including Indonesia which produces some good quality essential oil.