Organic Sandalwood Essential Oil

Sandalwood is highly precious oil that made its mark on history. The variety with the longest-spanning history is Indian sandalwood, or Santalum album, which for centuries was sacred in healing practices, incense burning, and important religious rituals. Dubbed “Old Mountain” by the Chinese, who valued the tree greatly, the Indian government became so concerned with Santalum album’s survival that they declared it ‘royal’ and made every tree official government property. Although this helped regulate care and harvesting the population of Indian sandalwood is severely threatened. While Indian sandalwood populations were dwindling, the discovery of Australia’s population of a closely related tree (Santalum spicatum) was most directly driven by the need to balance trade exchanges with the Chinese. For some time in the early trade era China’s exports far outweighed their imports, with over 72 million pounds of Chinese teas and merchandise arriving in England alone between 1811-1819. Austral