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Chemical Composition of Two Different Lavender Essential Oils and Their Effect on Facial Skin Microbiota

Chemical Composition of Two Different Lavender Essential Oils and Their Effect on Facial Skin Microbiota

Marietta Białoń, Teresa Krzyśko-Łupicka, Ewa Nowakowska-Bogdan, Piotr P Wieczorek

Molecules. 2019 Sep 8;24(18):3270.

PMID: 31500359

Abstract:

Lavender oil is one of the most valuable aromatherapy oils, its anti-bacterial and anti-fungal activities can be explained by main components such as linalool, linalyl acetate, lavandulol, geraniol, or eucalyptol. The aim of the study was to assess the anti-microbial effects of two different lavender oils on a mixed microbiota from facial skin. The commercial lavender oil and essential lavender oil from the Crimean Peninsula, whose chemical composition and activity are yet to be published, were used. Both oils were analysed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. The composition and properties of studied oils were significantly different. The commercial ETJA lavender oil contained 10% more linalool and linalyl acetate than the Crimean lavender oil. Both oils also had different effects on the mixed facial skin microbiota. The Gram-positive bacilli were more sensitive to ETJA lavender oil, and Gram-negative bacilli were more sensitive to Crimean lavender oil. However, neither of the tested oils inhibited the growth of Gram-positive cocci. The tested lavender oils decreased the cell number of the mixed microbiota from facial skin, but ETJA oil showed higher efficiency, probably because it contains higher concentrations of monoterpenoids and monoterpenes than Crimean lavender oil does.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP58461271-A	Lavandulol		58461-27-1	Price

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