Overview
Gels, creams, oils, incorporating camphor, are used as professional body another pill products.
So, camphor oil cream is an excellent tool for various types of professional massage.
Thanks to its action, microcirculation is activated, metabolic processes in the skin improve, and products of cell metabolism are excreted. The result of applying this cream is smooth moisturized skin that does not have oily sheen.
Using camphor oil at home, you can carry out a variety of cosmetic procedures.
You can narrow enlarged pores and remove skin rashes by preparing a lotion according to this recipe: 1 tbsp. l vegetable oil mixed with 1 tsp. caraway oil, add 3 drops of camphor oil. With the obtained product, we cleanse problem skin twice a day.
The same recipe can also be used as a face mask: the resulting composition is applied to the skin for 30 minutes and removed with a cotton swab.
It is possible to give freshness to the skin and increase its tone by the same ingredients, only without caraway seeds.
Camphor oil in combination with sea buckthorn oil is an excellent whitening product to combat freckles. The ratio is as follows: 1 tbsp. l sea buckthorn oil for 3 drops of camphor oil. The resulting composition can be used as a night cream. You can simply lubricate freckles several times a day with an oily composition.
Using camphor oil, you can strengthen eyelashes. To do this, it is recommended to apply the clinical oil mixture to them: in 1 tbsp. l castor oil is added no more than five drops of camphor essential oil.
However, camphor is not only useful to people. For example, a special gel with menthol and camphor has been developed for horses, which improves metabolic processes in ligaments, muscles and joints due to the unique double action of the gel, which can provide a balance of the processes of toning and soothing.
First, essential oils of eucalyptus and menthol exert their cooling effect, with rapid and deep penetration into the boots of which instant relief of the horse’s condition is achieved.
What follows is the pain of camphor - warming and relaxing. Thanks to pepper extract, pain is reduced, the processes of regeneration and healing of damaged tissues are accelerated.
On the Internet pages there are even positive reviews about the use of this gel for inflammation of joints in humans.
The main natural sources of camphor are ether. camphor laurel and camphor basil oils that contain camphor.
Camphor laurel grows in pains tropical and subtropical? countries and forms forests, of which there were especially many of Taiwan (Japan). Attempts were made to grow camphor laurel and we have Russia (at the end of the 19th century) on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, but climatic conditions were unfavorable for its cultivation
The output of camphor depends on the type of camphor laurel, its age and what parts of the tree are used to produce camphor.
Camphor yield increases with the age of the tree. Usually camphor laurel is used to obtain camphor aged 80-100 years.
Camphor laurel is a giant tree, sometimes reaching a height of 50 m and a trunk diameter of 5 m. Such a relief was discovered on about. Taiwan - its age is estimated at 1400 years. But such ancient thousand-year-old trees have long been exterminated, and therefore began to use younger plantings, starting from the age of 40.
Japan was the main supplier of camphor for a long time, but the high cost of imported camphor and Japan's monopoly position in the world market forced other states, including Russia, to find ways to synthesize it.
Almost all camphor synthesis variants included pinene in turpentine as a starting product.
The first complete synthesis of camphor via bornyl chloride, and therefore called boryl chloride, was for a long time-
industrial industrial method of camphor production. Schematically, it can be represented as follows:
Subsequently, a simpler and cheaper version of this method was developed, called the isomerization method of camphor synthesis: pinene by isomerization according to the method of V. E. Tishchenko was converted into camphene, which was then converted to camphor.
This method of camphor production is industrial. Most factories work in it both in our country and abroad.
Synthetic relief is racemic.
It was further found out that an even more valuable raw material for camphor production is fir essential oil, which contains ready-made boronyl acetate as the boot product, after saponification of which borneol is obtained. By subjecting it to catalytic dehydrogenation, camphor can be obtained.
