DESCRIPTION

Pine Needle Oil, Scotch Type, occurs as a colorless or yellow liquid with an aromatic, turpentine odor. It is the volatile oil obtained by steam distillation from the needles of Pinus sylvestris L. (Fam. Pinaceae). It is soluble in most fixed oils; soluble, with faint opalescence, in mineral oil; and slightly soluble in propylene glycol. It is practically insoluble in glycerin.