2 oz Ginger Essential Oil with Pipette

Ginger has been grown for millennia, prized for its aromatic qualities, its flavor and its versatility in all kinds of cuisine. As an essential oil, it is one of the most therapeutic, and has been a staple for China for well over three thousand years. Ginger essential oil is extracted from the roots of the plant (rhizomes, actually), a knotty-looking tuber that varies in color, depending on the soil and climate it is grown in. Though the flowers and the stalks are also highly aromatic, it is only the rhizomes that are used for essential oil production. Steam distilled from the whole, unpeeled rhizomes, it can be made from a fresh, dried or ground-up source. Each source has slightly different aromatics, the dried roots being more earthy, while the fresh ground root is more spicy. It presents as a clear, medium-yellow colored thin liquid. Its scent is spicy, peppery, warm, earthy, camphorous and woody with a middle fragrance note. There is over 1200 different species of ginger, but the strain used for essential oil production is Zingiber officinale. Its chemical components include camphene, nerol, linalool, a-pinene, geraniol, b-pinene, 1,8-cineole, zingiberene, y-terpineol, borneol, geranyl acetate, and b-bisabolene.