Estudo de formulações alternativas de essências para uso em narguilé

Abstract

A hookah is formed by a base that contains water, a smoke hose, a coal burning bowl and mainly by the hookah essence that contains mostly tobacco, aromatic essences that give it its name and water. There are certain characteristics that make an essence more desirable to the consumer such as a slow burning essence that produces a lot of sweet tasting smoke. As such it is the objective of this academic work to perform a study about the composition and an evaluation of the characteristics desired by the public in the development of a new hookah essence. It was also evaluated the characteristics and compositions of various reagents were used in the development of a promising formulation that could be used in a final product and possible substitutes that could be utilized. At the end of the experiments a viable composition was found and the possibility of developing a composition with the addition of menthol.