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In 1916–17, the sandalwood oil distillery was established in Mysore by the then Mysore government (now the Karnataka government) to distil oil from sandalwood. [3] In 1977, the Mysore district had about 85,000 sandalwood trees, and production reported during 1985-86 was about 20,000 kilograms (44,000 lb) of raw sandalwood.
Mysore Sandal Soap is the only soap in the world made from 100% pure sandalwood oil. [1] KSDL owns a proprietary geographical indication tag on the soap, which gives it intellectual property rights to use the brand name, to ensure quality, and to prevent piracy and unauthorised use by other manufacturers. [ 3 ]
It was founded as Government Sandalwood Oil Factory in 1916 by sosale garalapuri shastri and M. Visvesvaraya for extracting and exporting sandalwood oil. [1] It launched Mysore Sandal Soap in 1918, and has since manufactured soaps and cosmetics products. [2] [3] The company became a public sector enterprise in 1980 and was renamed as KSDL. [4 ...
He ran a distillery and a carbonic acid manufacturing unit in Calcutta. He also served as director in the Mysore Sandalwood Oil company, the Mysore Sugar company and the Bhadravathi Iron Works. Also Ismail Sait served as Chairman and Director of the Mysore Bank Limited, Bhadrawathi Iron Works and the Mysore Government Sandalwood Factory.
Sosale Garalapury Sastry (November 1899 – 22 September 1955) was an Indian industrial chemist known for his work on the manufacture of sandalwood soap through the establishment of the Mysore soap factory in Bangalore. This earned him the nickname of Soap Sastry. He also served as a director of industries and commerce in Mysore State.
The bolder version of the original Sauvage, this still has the fresh, blue quality that makes the original so great, but dials up the warmth with a lot of sandalwood that gives way to a base note ...
Sandalwood oil contains more than 90% sesquiterpenic alcohols of which 50–60% is the tricyclic α-santalol. β-Santalol comprises 20–25%. [2] [3]The composition of the oil will depend on the species, region grown, age of tree, [2] and possibly the season of harvest and details of the extraction process used.
Sandalwood is a class of woods from trees in the genus Santalum. The woods are heavy, yellow, and fine-grained, and, unlike many other aromatic woods, they retain their fragrance for decades. Sandalwood oil is extracted from the woods. Sandalwood is often cited as one of the most expensive woods in the world.