(Styrax benzoin)
Family: Styracaceae
Description: Benzoin is a tropical tree with pale-green leaves and hard-shelled fruit. Incisions into the bark produce a resin that hardens into brown ‘tears’ with reddish streaks. The essential oil is steam-distilled from these ‘tears’ of hardened resin, but it is an almost solid resinous mass. This is then dissolved in ethyl glycol [...]
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