Product Description:

Natural menthol crystal is a colourless transparent acicular to prismatic crystals.

This product is neutral in ethanol solution, easily soluble in ethanol, chloroform, ether, liquid paraffin or volatile oil, and slightly soluble in water.

Melting point: 42℃-44℃ Celsius degree

It has the aroma characteristics of Asian menthol, and the taste is hot and then cool. It enjoys the reputation of “Asian fragrance, global fragrance”

Menthol is made up of a saturated cyclic alcohol found in mint oil. It has the effect of dissipating wind and clearing heat. Menthol and racemic menthol can be used as toothpaste; perfume.

A perfumer used in beverages and sweets.Acts on skin or mucous membrane, has cooling and antipruritic effect.

Menthol is an edible spice allowed to be used in China, mainly used for flavouring toothpaste, candy and beverage. The dosage is 1100mg/kg in chewing gum, 400mg/kg in candy, 130mg/kg in baked goods, 68mg/kg in ice cream, and 35mg/kg in soft drinks according to normal production needs.

GB2760-2014 stipulates that natural menthol is permitted to be used as food flavouring. For the preparation of mint-type spices (can account for 10% ~ 18%), can also be used in candy (mints, gummies), beverages, ice cream, etc. (dosage 0.054% ~ 0.1%).

Menthol can be used as a flavoring agent in toothpaste, perfume, beverages and candies;

 It is used in medicine as a stimulant, acting on the skin or mucous membranes, with a cooling and antipruritic effect;

When taken orally, it can be used as a carminative for headaches and nasal congestion, pharynx, laryngoinflammation, etc

Its esters are used in spices and medicines.

The famous Ming Dynasty medical book “Compendium of Materia Medica” has a detailed record of the properties and medical effects of mint, saying that it is “pungent, bitter and

cool in nature”. Modern medicine has proved that it has an excitatory effect, make the skin capillary expansion, promote sweat gland secretion, sweating, detoxification, evacuation

of wind-heat, can be used to treat colds and wind-heat. There is also a beneficial effect on the throat, can be used to treat wind-heat sore throat, cough. It has the effect of

transmitting, can help measles transmitting. It can also act on the sensory nerve endings, can make the sensory paralysis, so the external use of pain and itching effect. There is a

strong bactericidal insecticidal effect. Because of these various medicinal effects, peppermint is one of the important ingredients in the commercially available proprietary medicines

such as Qingliang Oil, Anemarrhena, and Rendan. Cooling oil is made of peppermint oil, peppermint water plus clove oil, camphor, white wax, white petroleum jelly preparation,

commonly known as the oil of gold, can be used externally to treat colds and headaches, insect bites and itching. Fresh mint leaves can be rubbed and pasted on the temples to

cure vasodilatory headache. It can cure rhinitis, anti-sepsis, and skin diseases, etc.