Oleo Pine Resin is a natural mixture of oil, carboxylic acid and oxygenated product of terpene derived from Pine tree. These resins in early stage are in liquid gummy form but it gets hardened with time and treatment. The resins compounds are classified in different manner depending on its chemical composition and its application. Resins produced from pine are known as naval storage. Oleo Pine Resins are soluble in alcohol but not in water and their colour vary from clear to dark brown. These resin tapping has various social and economic benefits. The quality of resin depends on several factors like species of pine trees, locality and environmental factor, tapping of trees, tree morphology, side of stem (more resin secreted from south than north of stem),soil, nature of forest etc.

Oleo Pine Resins are obtained by the tapping of living pine trees. Collection of the resins is a labour intensive operation similar to rubber-tapping and distillation of the resin produces gum rosin and gum turpentine.