Pipette bottle with 25ml alcoholic castoreum solution.
The product is ideal for museum and zoo educational purposes to convey the smell of castoreum. Put about 3 drops on an absorbent surface.
Also available with this castoreum solution is a cast of a
castoreum gland. Further available is a
complete set with a castoreum gland with an embedded smelling strip and castoreum solution.
Background information:
Castoreum, is a secretion from the glandular sacs of the beaver. The beaver uses the fatty secretion for fur care and to mark its territorial boundaries.
The two 20-100g heavy, about hen's egg-sized glandular sacs of the beaver, which are located between the anus and genitals of both sexes, are taken from the killed animal and smoke-dried. (see model)
In medicine, castoreum was used until the 19th century against convulsions, hysterical attacks and nervousness and much more. Castoreum was in such demand that it came to the endangerment of beavers. The medicinal effect is achieved by the contained salicylic acid (ingredient of willow bark). Today, castoreum has a significance only in homeopathy. In perfumery, castoreum is a component of some aphrodisiac (eroticizing) perfumes. Today, similar substances are produced synthetically and used in cosmetics.