Hinoki Essential Oil

100% pure and natural (but not organic certified)
Raw Material: Hinoki Offcuts, a waste product of Hinoki lumber production
Lumber Source: Hinoki Sawmill
Timber Source: Sustainably Managed Forest with Certification
Traceability: Traceable to the Forest Where the Timber Originated.

Extraction Method: Steam Distillation
Production Capacity: 4 MT+ Annually
Packaging: 20-kg Tournaire UN Alubottles with Nitrogen Blanket

Approximately 80% of Japan is forested mountains, large areas of which were clear cut and replanted with fast-growing Hinoki monoculture forests more than a century ago. Current forestry policy promotes selective thinning of these forests and restoration of mixed native species.  Hinoki Essential Oil is produced from off-cuts of Hinoki lumber, produced by a specialist sawmill that processes branches that would usually be left on the forest floor after harvesting only the trunk. Post-distillation Hinoki chips are then used as boiler fuel for dehydrating post-distillation Yuzu slurry, supporting a circular production system. The sawmill supplying the Hinoki off-cuts has been audited and certified by the Kochi Prefectural Forestry Association as operating under legal and sustainable forestry practices.