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Chemistry in Industry : Journal of Chemists and Chemical Engineers of Croatia, Vol. 72 No. 1-2, 2023.

Review article

https://doi.org/10.15255/KUI.2022.025

Methods for Obtaining Immortelle Essential Oil, Hydrolate, and Macerate, and Parameters for their Quality Assessment

Barbara Bilandžija orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-5485-2733 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, A. Kovačića 1, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Lucija Bilandžija orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-4926-0626 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, A. Kovačića 1, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Lea Pollak orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-6167-7803 ; Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Rockefellerova 7, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Suzana Inić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-7364-3275 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, A. Kovačića 1, 10 000 Zagreb, Croati

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Abstract

Immortelle (Helichrysum italicum (Roth) G. Don), belonging to the family of Asteraceae, is typically a Mediterranean plant that has a long-lasting medicinal and pharmaceutical use. The aim of this paper was to emphasise the importance of standardising procedures, as well as defining the value range within which the parameters for assessing the quality and purity of essential oils, hydrolates, and macerates should be, considering the growing commercial interest in these preparations. Quality testing is important to determine the safety, but also the effectiveness of the application of immortelle essential oil, hydrolate, and macerate, which also opens the possibility of their wider use in the pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetics industries.
Determination of relative density, refractive index, acid value, pH value, turbidity, and essential oil content has already been used as a standard for determining the quality of officinal essential oils in European Pharmacopoeia. The introduction of standardised procedures for testing the quality and purity of immortelle essential oil, hydrolate, and macerate would help better analytical control of these preparations on the market.

Keywords

immortelle essential oil; hydrolate; macerate; quality testing; physical and chemical parameters

Hrčak ID:

291188

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/291188

Publication date:

11.1.2023.

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