Geranium Bourbon

Description and usage notes:

Geranium oil is one of the staples of the perfumery industry, manufactured from the leaves of pelargonium (varieties of Pelargonium graveolens) plants, commonly known as geraniums.  This is a particularly fine oil from the island of La Réunion (once known as Ile de Bourbon).

According to Arctander it is “One of the most important and irreplaceable essential oils in perfumery” and he says that Geranium Bourbon is the most important of all. He describes the odour as: “very powerful: green, leafy-rosy, with a pronounced fruity-minty undertone and a rich, long lasting, sweet-rosy dryout”

This oil contains the following materials that require declarations on the label of products covered by the EU Cosmetics Directive:

• Citronellol 58% *
• Geraniol 6.5% *
• Limonene 1%
• Linalool 11%

* these two materials are also covered by IFRA restriction standards.  The oil does not contain any other restricted materials.

As a result the oil is limited to use at the following levels in the various products as defined by IFRA:

• IFRA Class 1: Limit 1.37%
• IFRA Class 2: Limit 1.89%
• IFRA Class 3.A: Limit 7.58%
• IFRA Class 3.B: Limit 7.58%
• IFRA Class 3.C: Limit 7.58%
• IFRA Class 3.D: Limit 7.58%
• IFRA Class 4.A: Limit 22.93%
• IFRA Class 4.B: Limit 22.93%
• IFRA Class 4.C: Limit 22.93%
• IFRA Class 4.D: Limit 22.93%
• IFRA Class 5: Limit 12.06%
• IFRA Class 6: Limit 36.89%
• IFRA Class 7.A: Limit 3.79%
• IFRA Class 7.B: Limit 3.79%
• IFRA Class 8.A: Limit 3.44%
• IFRA Class 8.B: Limit 3.44%
• IFRA Class 9.A: Limit 8.62%
• IFRA Class 9.B: Limit 8.62%
• IFRA Class 9.C: Limit 8.62%
• IFRA Class 10.A: Limit 4.31%
• IFRA Class 10.B: Limit 4.31%
• IFRA Class 11: Limit 100%

Documents

Safety Data Sheet

IFRA Certificate

Allergen Declaration