Bitter Almond Essential Oil

What is Bitter Almond Essential Oil?

Bitter Almond Essential Oil carries the delicious scent of marzipan. A beautiful and delicate ingredient to add to your DIY care products. NOT intended as an ingredient in dishes.

This oil is obtained by fractional distillation from the almonds of the bitter almond tree (Prunus amygdalus var. amara). These are different almonds than from the sweet almond tree (Prunus dulcis 'Ferragnès'), which you normally eat.

This Bitter Almond Essential Oil consists of at least 96% benzaldehyde.

It is not the same as Sweet Almond Oil. Sweet Almond Oil is very suitable as a base oil, while Bitter Almond Essential Oil should be used very sparingly. The nuts of the bitter almond contain the toxic substance amygdalin and are therefore not safe to eat.

How do you use it?

It is important to dilute Bitter Almond Essential Oil strongly, due to its high content of benzaldehyde. It is recommended to never use more than 0.02% in deodorant, 0.09% in perfume, 0.27% in body lotion, 0.14% in facial products and 3% in soap. Before making other care products, we strongly recommend doing proper research and sticking to the formulation.

This oil combines nicely with Vanille CO2 Extract, Ylang Ylang Essential Oil en Pink Grapefruit Essential Oil.

This oil is NOT intended as a seasoning, to be ingested or to evaporate in the aroma diffuser.

Store the oil in the refrigerator.

What is so special about it?

Synthetic almond flavouring is increasingly being added to care products. If you're looking for a natural ingredient to give your product the scent of almonds, Bitter Almond Essential Oil is what you need.