Natural Menthol Crystals

Description：

Menthol Crystal is the solid constituent of oil of mint, and was formerly known as peppermint camphor. It is a white crystalline compound with a characteristic pungent odor. They dissolve readily into alcohol or essential oils, and they can also be dissolved into water or oil. Menthol imparts a tingling sensation to the skin and used in skin fresheners like after-shave and suntan lotions. It has a local anesthetic property for short-term relief of minor sore throat and minor muscle aches.

Application

Menthol Crystal often used as additives, with distinct fragrance smell, menthol can promote digestion and increase appetite.

Menthol Crystal applied in daily necessities field, menthol can be added into a large amount of oral cleaning products, such as dentifrices, mouthwash and tooth powder.

Menthol Crystal used in pharmaceutical field, because menthol has the function of inhibition and paralysis to sensory nerve endings, it can be used as counter irritant.

Advantage:

Natural Menthol Crystal

Mentha arvensis is the primary species of mint used to make natural menthol crystals and natural menthol flakes. 

Chemical properties

Natural Menthol Crystal reacts in many ways like a normal secondary alcohol. It is oxidised to menthone by oxidising agents such as chromic acid, though under some conditions the oxidation can go further and break open the ring. Menthol is easily dehydrated to give mainly 3-menthene, by the action of 2% sulfuric acid. PCl5 gives menthyl chloride.

Biological properties

Menthol Crystal's ability to chemically trigger cold-sensitive receptors in the skin is responsible for the well known cooling sensation that it provokes when inhaled, eaten, or applied to the skin.