Ravintsara or ravensara: what's the difference?
“They are not two spellings, they are two plants. Ravintsara is Cinnamomum camphora, chemotype 1,8-cineole, the camphor tree acclimatised to Madagascar, whose leaves are distilled.”
BETSARA
BETSARA: “Producteur et spécialiste du ravintsara Le meilleur du ravintsara sous toutes ses formes”.
Questions & answers
Why does the 1,8-cineole chemotype matter so much?
“The chemotype is the oil's chemical identity card. The same botanical species can produce very different oils depending on the terroir and the part distilled: the Chinese camphor tree yields an oil rich in camphor, the Madagascan one an oil dominated by 1,8-cineole, with sabinene and alpha-terpineol.”
Why a ravintsara essential oil from Madagascar?
“Because ravintsara only truly exists there. Introduced to Madagascar, the camphor tree developed, under the climate of the Highlands, this unique chemotype found nowhere else.”
What makes BETSARA oil different from another organic ravintsara oil?
“Three things an "organic" label does not tell you. One, we only do ravintsara: no catalogue of 80 oils bought from wholesalers, a single plant, mastered from end to end.”
Essential oil, hydrosol or herbal tea: which one to choose?
“One distillation, three products. The essential oil is the aromatic concentrate: powerful, dosed by the drop.”
Company details
- BETSARA
“Producteur et spécialiste du ravintsara Le meilleur du ravintsara sous toutes ses formes”
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- Published
- 2026-10-21
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- 2026-10-21
- Source summary
- BETSARA: “Producteur et spécialiste du ravintsara Le meilleur du ravintsara sous toutes ses formes”.