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  • Menthyl Acetate: a use for it?

    Posted by Margaret2 on February 11, 2015 at 8:49 pm

    Can anyone come up with a use for 1 liter of menthyl acetate? I bought it from a certain wholesaler, and I thought it would smell like peppermint. Nope, not even close  :ar!

    Margaret2 replied 9 years ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Kirk

    Member
    February 12, 2015 at 1:59 am

    Its an ester acetate of menthol. So most likely it will not smell the same as menthol, but will give a certain cooling effect, to some extent. You can try to use in water based products such as toners and body washes.  

  • david

    Member
    February 12, 2015 at 1:30 pm

    Are you sure you didn’t get methyl acetate instead?

  • bill_toge

    Member
    February 13, 2015 at 8:13 am

    agree with @Kirk - homosalate (a UV filter) is the salicylate ester of menthol, and that smells nothing like mint either

    and if it were methyl acetate, it’d have a very strong smell like glue or wood varnish
  • Margaret2

    Member
    March 21, 2015 at 2:44 am

    DAVID: It is menthyl acetate, yes, not methyl acetate. I forgot to answer your question. 

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