Usefulness is very much essential oil , depending on the type of plants being taken sulingannya results . Essential oils are used as raw materials in the Flavor and fragrance ( flavor and fragrance ingredients ) . Manufacture of cosmetics and perfumes using essential oils as fragrance materials sometimes manufacture soap , toothpaste , shampoos , lotions and perfumes . The food industry uses essential oils as a treatment after experiencing Flavor or add flavor . The pharmaceutical industry use as anti-pain medications , anti-infective , bacterial killer . The function of essential oils as fragrance is also used to cover the odor of other ingredients such as insecticides required by industrial preservative and insecticide ingredients .
Of the oil industry in Indonesia has existed since colonial times . But seen from the quality and quantity did not experience much change . This is due to most of the units of the oil still using simple technology / Traditional and generally makes a limited production capacity .
Indonesia is an agricultural country , with tremendous natural wealth abundant , various types of crops grown in diverse varieties of its kind . In the era of 1960s Indonesia was recorded as one of the great essential oil
