Mastic Oil
Mastic oil is the essential oil obtained from the distillation of natural Mastic. The yield in mastic oil varies depending on the quality of the mastic from 1%-3%. The mastic oil with the mark of the Union of Mastic Producers of Chios is pure and unadulterated, guaranteed as a genuine mastic distillate. It was first produced in Germany, in the city of Braunschweig, by dry distillation. In 1573 it became known in the circles of pharmacists in Berlin and later in 1580 in the "Augustine Pharmacopoeia" (Pharmacopoea Augustiana).