Agarwood and methyl paraben

[grandawood]

Hi all,
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The below article
http://www.academia.edu/18786177/Chemical_constituents_from_the_bark_of_Aquilaria_sinensis
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Sniensis

Agallocha

MethylParaben is an anti fungal agent use in cosmetic which has many debates over its safety. Currently, the trend is to boycott this agent due to potential cancer risk. It is interesting to find out this substance is in the agarwood (aquilaria's bark). Agarwood is the defence mechanism of the Aquilaria tree, and logically, methylparaben is there to "fight" with the disease which is quite normal. Any thoughts?

 

[grandawood]

I have more source to confirm paraben is one of the chemicals compound of the bark but this was in Chinese

Journal of Tropical and Subtropical Botany (2014)
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[F4R1d0uX]

Hi @grandawood happy to see you there again !

Do you think this compound could be find in an agarwood oil in few quantity if wasnt distilled from the heartwood ?

 

[AbasFrag]

Hello!

Thank you for a very interesting post! I'm looking forward to follow this.

 

[Mr.P]

Could the parabens have been part of the inoculant used to infect the trees? I know quite a bit of liquid is pumped in there sometimes...

 

[Rasoul Salehi]

Any updates on this?