Food Flavourings

At Essenciales you can buy a wide collection of flavourings, including the most popular and widely used ones such as vanilla flavouring, smoke flavouring, bubble-gum flavouring, lemon flavouring, and many more. Food flavourings are used to give or enhance flavours in a great variety of foods, and they do not provide any nutritional value on their own. They are especially common in baking and pastry making, although their use is increasingly appreciated in a wider range of culinary specialties thanks to their ability to help reduce salt, sugar, and fats in all kinds of preparations. They are particularly useful for adding flavour to sponge cakes, cookies, pastries, cupcakes, puff pastry, muffins, frostings, shakes, ice creams, creams, and whipped toppings. They are also popular for preparing cocktails and flavouring all types of beverages. Edible flavourings must always and exclusively be food-grade.

Can I use them in my homemade cosmetics?

Yes. Although they are designed for food use, these flavourings can also bring a unique sensory touch to your cosmetic creations. They are ideal for adding taste and aroma to lip balms, solid balms, natural soaps, or homemade body butters. For example, you can make a lip balm with coconut oil and cherry or liquorice flavouring, or scent an artisanal soap with notes of vanilla, orange, or mint. Just remember to use them in small amounts and check their compatibility with your formula.

Flavourings are not essential oils

Flavourings are not essential oils: they do not possess the phytotherapeutic properties of essential oils and they are not used in the same way. They should never be confused. In some cases, such as orange or lemon, essential oils may be used as organoleptic additives in the food industry by professionals. However, when it comes to flavouring, it is always best to use an appropriate flavouring. Likewise, a flavouring cannot meet the requirements needed in aromatherapy, as it lacks many of the characteristic substances present in essential oils.

They are safe

Most of them are made and reconstituted from the natural extracts of the plants themselves, whether by distillation, roasting, or other advanced extraction processes using enzymatic reactions. Food flavourings are regulated, so their safety is guaranteed and they are not toxic, although they should always be used according to their instructions due to their high concentration. Flavourings contain no flours, no sugars, and do not come from GMOs. Their main excipient is usually food-grade USP Ph Eur propylene glycol, an edible humectant polyalcohol that preserves the aromas and is present in all types of foods.

Important

A food-grade flavouring can normally be used in homemade cosmetic products; however, non-food flavourings or those of exclusively technical grade—or those labelled as suitable only for cosmetics—should never be used to flavour food.