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Essential oils: Cedarwood Texas and cedarwood Virginia essential oils

February 13, 2012 by SwiftCraftyMonkey

The cedarwood essential oils from Texas and Virginia can be very similar, but there are different claims and different processing for each of the oils. From Leung’s Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients (click here for the excerpt): Cedarwood oil Virginia contains mainly α-and β-cedrene (ca. 80%), cedrol (3–14%), and cedrenol. Other sesquiterpenes present include thujopsene, β-elemene,…

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