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Peppermint has a high menthol content, and is often used as tea and for flavouring ice cream, confectionery, chewing gum, and toothpaste. The oil also contains menthone and menthyl esters, particularly menthyl acetate. It is the oldest and most popular flavour of mint-flavoured confectionery. Peppermint can also be found in some shampoos and soaps, which give the hair a minty scent and produce a cooling sensation on the skin.
Function:
1. Stimulatory and inhibitory nerve function: mint product has the effect of stimulating the central nervous system, has a burning sensation on the skin and apathetic while its sensory nerve endings have inhibition and paralysis of action; therefore, can be used as anti-irritant and skin stimulants.
2. Anti-inflammatory and antibacterial: mint products for mosquito bites skin desensitization effect, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial; upper respiratory tract infection is also a significant cough, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effect; for hemorrhoids.
Application:
1.Applied in food field, often used as additives, with distinct fragrance smell, it can promote digestion and increase appetite
2.Applied in daily necessities field, aslo added into a large amount of oral cleaning products, such as dentifrices, mouthwash and tooth powder
3.Applied in pharmaceutical field, because of the function of inhibition and paralysis to sensory nerve endings, it can be used as counter irritant.