PRODUCTION OF ESSENTIAL OILS/PERFUME FROM SCENT LEAF (Ocimum gratissimum)

Today there is a high demand of perfume for various purposes such as medicinal, soap making household, personal hygiene and insecticides even if it is significant, no perfume factories that are erected in Nigeria rather than imported. Imported perfume are also very expensive to meet the demand of our local consumer industries besides direct human use, In particular perfumes that are usually imported can be produced locally from a vast variety of oil bearing plants yet to be explored. Therefore it becomes necessary to source and extract this oil from local source such as lemongrass that used to develop perfume by extracting the essential oil.