Simplify your beauty routine with Organic Liquid Gold Pure Argan Oil. Use this rich, versatile oil on hair, skin, lips and nails to provide moisture and nourishment. Used by the Moroccan people for centuries, Pure Organic Argan Oil has moisturising and conditioning properties. The oil contains eight essential fatty acids and boasts high levels of vitamin E. Along with carotenoids, saponins and polyphones, Argan Oil contains rare plant sterols (schottenol and spinasterol). Argan seeds are selected and cold pressed to produce organically certified virgin oil that is ready for use in your beauty regime. Easily absorbed, the oil is non-greasy and can be used to condition hair whilst adding shine and reducing frizziness. Apply a few drops all over the body as a moisturiser, dab on to soothe dry, cracked lips or rub into your cuticles to soften and nourish.
Organic Argan Oil contains significant amounts of Vitamin E, Essential Fatty Acids and Anti-oxidants which fight free radicals, one of the causes of skin damage and premature ageing.
Uses : It can be used as a face oil due to its powerful anti-ageing and regenerating properties, fighting wrinkles and lines and giving tighter and brighter skin. It can also be effective against skin conditions like acne, eczema and psoriasis.
Argan Oil provides rich nourishment to hair as well and can be used as a conditioner and hair mask. Apply a few drops after washing to nourish dry hair or use it as a weekly hair mask by applying to the hair and leaving for 30 minutes prior to washing your hair as normal.
Our Argan Oil is single source Argan Oil, which means that it is not blended with oil from different locations. We can actually trace the oil in your bottle back to the individual tree the fruit grew on. This ensures our oil is of the highest quality and not contaminated by poor quality Argan Oil.
Our Argan Oil is not refined, deodorised or otherwise chemically treated in any way. Cheaper Argan Oils are often refined and deodorised, which removes aroma and other beneficial compounds from the oil resulting in a less effective oil.
The Argan tree (Argania Spinosa) grows exclusively in Morocco, in some of the harshest environments on earth, and can flourish up to 200 years. As a rare and endangered species, the argan forest was declared an International Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1998.
Intrigued by this mysterious phenomenon, the ancient locals started investigating, and concluded that the secret of the tree’s survival lies in its fruit. A tree can produce up to 8 kg of fruit per year, i.e. an average of 128,000 tonnes per year for all the Moroccan argan trees.
Argan oil, cosmetic or culinary, is made from the kernel found inside the argan tree fruit, native to south-west Morocco, primarily a Berber region. Women crack open the argan nut between stones to extract the kernel, which is then cold pressed. It has been nicknamed ‘liquid gold’.
Extraction Process of Argan Oil:
The oil extraction is a 4 stage process:
The process of creating argan oil is resource, labor, and time intensive: in one working day, a woman can produce from 1 to 1.5 kg of seeds. 100 kg of ripe fruit will become 60 kg of dry fruit: 30 kg of dry pulp and 30 kg of nuts. Of the 30 kg of nuts, only 3 kg of seeds will be extracted. That 3 kg of seed will provide around 1 liter of oil after cold pressing.
| Fatty composition of argan oil |
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| Saturated fatty acids Palmitic acid Stearic acid | 16–20 % 12% 6% |
| Moro unsaturated fatty acids Oleic acid | 45–50% 42.8% |
| Poly unsaturated fatty acids Linoleic acid Alpha linoleic acid | 32–40% 36.8% <0.5% |