Description
Wool Absolute Essential Oil
5ml
Natural Solvent Extracted
Ovis aries
Kosher from Israel
Known as Tzemer Shemen and we introduced this one into our line of absolute essential oils in 2014. So glad we did. This one was a top seller in our Etsy Store and our Website.
Wool Absolute is an amber to dark brown red, viscous liquid, almost honey-like in consistency but pourable. Rich, sweet, warm, animalic musky aroma with notes of dried fruit, resins, and leather, animalic notes along with a slight boozy, fatty, and mineralic nuance. A sustainable alternative to animalic derived materials such as deer musk, civet, or castoreum. Niche perfumers take note, you’ll want this animalic oil in your collection, palette, and toolkit!
The scent to me is similar to the finest oud oils with no barnyard pungency, and its consistency is a rich, honey-like material. It may contain natural traces of lanolin too because the wool is natually oily, so it absolutely feels amazing on the skin. For formulators seeking a new animalic note without the harm to an animal and an evocative material, Wool Absolute is a fascinating addition.
Wool absolute should not cost hundreds of dollars, which is why we offer it in a 5ml size NEAT. It is an upcycled product from chemical-free natural wool. The entire process is sustainable and cruelty-free. We were the first to have this one on the market, up until a few years ago. Now is produced in France and Germany. And both are a bit high in cost.
Psalms 23:5 You set a table before me in the presence of my adversaries; You anointed my head with oil; my cup overflows.
When Hodaya and Golan told me about wool absolute, I honestly did not know what to expect, but my curiosity overtook me, so I purchased it from the artisan producer Etan, and OMG, I do not regret it at all. Wow! This is a soft, waxy oil derived from the clean wool of domestic sheep that graze in the Judean and Samaria hills, Upper Galilee region, and in the valleys of Southern Israel. Wool offers numerous natural skin-supportive benefits.
This waterproof, waxy oil helps keep water from soaking into the wool of the sheep and is believed to help protect the sheep’s skin and wool from environmental factors. It is extracted when freshly sheared and cleaned wool (no sheep is harmed) is pressed between rollers before it is processed into textiles such as yarn used for tzitzits and wool felt.
Now you can support your skin’s health and help to protect it from the environment naturally with this Pure wool! A luxurious emollient, our absolute supplies deep moisture to dry, chapped skin.
It helps to naturally protect your skin from the elements it comes into contact with every day, such as wind, sun, and weather. Promote your skin’s natural beauty from head to toe when you add our Pure Wool Lanolin to your daily routine! Add to creams and salves. May help relieve troublesome skin issues such as psoriasis and eczema.
The production process is simple and also long; wool absolute is sugar cane ethanol extracted at a small production facility and farm in Israel from the washing of kosher wool. Through this upcycling process, and then use a rotavap, ie vacuum machine that evaporates all the ethanol out, which creates an easily accessible and sustainable oil, which is left after the long process is done. No two batches are the same because some batches are thicker than others. All batches are small, made with love, and care.
From Orthodox Union on Kosher Status
“Because of its soothing and healing quality, lanolin is a common additive in creams, lotions, and moisturizers. More importantly to the kosher consumer, because of lanolin’s restorative quality, it is also commonly present in lip balms and is an important source of Vitamin D3. By law, Vitamin D must be added to pasteurized milk, and it is often extracted from lanolin. Since lanolin oil is technically an animal secretion oil, what is its kosher status?
It seems clear that lanolin oil from a sheep’s wool is kosher based on a Mishnah in Bechoros (1:2) that states that whatever emanates from a kosher animal is kosher. Shach (YD 81:12) explains that this includes any secretion oil from kosher animals.
Rav Belsky zt”l offered an additional proof that lanolin is kosher. The Gemara Shabbos (49a) states that one may not insulate a hot pot of food for Shabbos with wool that is naturally wet, because it will warm up the pot.
Rav Belsky explained that naturally wet wool refers to wool that is greasy with lanolin. It is clear from this Gemara that there is no kashrus concern with getting wool wax oil on a kosher pot, and it is only an issue because of Shabbos.
The OU accepts the position that wool oil is kosher for use in skincare and fragrance use.”
