White Lotus offers organic essential oils, hydrodistilled essences, CO2 extracts, attars, ruhs, and absolutes. We have done our best to select the highest quality oils available from our distilling and extracting colleagues around the world and hope that our customers, old and new, will find in our aromatic palette products that will serve their needs.
Products
Essential Oils, A-B
Essential Oils, C
Essential Oils, D-G
Essential Oils, H-L
Essential Oils, M-Q
Essential Oils, R-Z
Hydro Essences
CO2 Extracts
Attars and Ruhs
Absolutes
Incense
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The traditional attars of India are rarely found in their pure form today. They are often adulterated with synthetic chemicals or the base oil, sandalwood, is stretched with liquid paraffin and other substances. In the traditional process various flowers, roots, herbs, spices, etc are hydrodistilled in copper vessels into a receiving vessel containing sandalwood oil. It means that a certain proportion of flowers or other aromatic plants is put into a copper vessel containing water, sealed and the aromatic vapors produced from a wood or cow dung fire, rises through bamboo pipes and passes into another copper vessel containing sandalwood oil, sitting below the larger distilling one. There the vapors condense and after the days distillation the water and oil separate, allowing most of the aromatic molecules to become adsorbed into the sandalwood oil. The water is decanted off and added back to the distilling vessel for the next days distillation. The process, in the case of single flowers like rose, jasmin, kewda, night queen, kadam, heena, etc is repeated for a minimum of 15 days until the sandalwood becomes totally saturated with the perfume of that particular flower. The process for making Hina, Shamama, Amber, and Saffron Attar is much more sophisticated and requires numerous other steps as as many as 60 natural ingredients go into thier production which takes place over a couple of months.Please do note that many many oils in India are in the common market called Attar but they are not at all what their names claim to be. Authentic oils requires a huge amount of labor and fresh materials which makes them costly items to produce. In order to insure that we get the genuine oils we have a gentleman distilling these traditional oils for us. We have recently purchased two new copper stills for him and he is doing this work under specific guidance from us.
