Prickly Pear Seed Oil, A True Youth Elixir
Prickly Pear Seed Oil vegetable oil recognized for its valuable antioxidant and skin softening properties has exceptional anti-aging properties. That’s why we decided to tell you more about this oil. Of its composition to its manufacturing process
What is prickly pear seed oil?
Prickly pear is a prodigious vegetable oil produced by cold pressing the small seeds found inside this fruit. It is exceptionally rich in vitamin E, vitamin K, and phytosterols.
More precisely, there are 100 mg of vitamin E and 100 mg of sterols. For comparison, Argan oil contains only 60 and 130 mg respectively. This composition makes it particularly effective in combating the molecules oxidizing responsible for the aging of the skin. Which gives it the following properties:
The properties of prickly pear oil?
- Anti-inflammatory
- Anti-erythemal
- Moisturizing
- Regulates the dermis system and reform the skin tissue
- Plump up the skin
- Scar-Healing
- anti-aging and anti-wrinkle
- Anti-dark circles
- Tightens the skin texture
When to use the Barbary Fig Oil?
- This oil is very often used to:
Prevent the appearance of wrinkles: In this case, you can apply a few drops morning and evening to the affected areas of the face. - Firm and tighten the skin.
- Relieve sensitive and dry skin: Massage a few drops daily on your skin
- Reduce dark circles: Apply a drop and gently pat under the eyes
- Nourish dry and fragile hair: You can apply the oil before shampoo on the hair ends and lengths and letting it sit for a good hour.
Why is Cactus Oil so effective?
If it is so rich, it is because it comes from a fruit, the prickly pear. And this fruit has a rather original appearance since it grows on cactus, covered with quills, and has a bright color ranging from yellow to red.
First originating in Mexico, the prickly pear has spread around the Mediterranean and is now mainly cultivated in Algeria, Tunisia, and finally in Morocco where the climate allows having the variety of fruits that gives the most concentrated prickly pear seed oil in the world in Vitamin and antioxidants.
The oil comes from the seeds of prickly pear. We can count 300 seeds in a fruit of 160 gr. However, even if the prickly pear has spread widely and this fruit has many seeds, its price remains high because the squeezed seeds are tiny and the process of obtaining this prodigious oil remains fairly complicated.
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- Harvesting is not easy, particularly because of the spines present on the fruit
- The extraction of the seeds from the fruit is a slow process without counting drying
- The Cold-Pressing process of the seeds is slow and very difficult, given the hardness of the seeds which requires a special hardened metal alloy.
- Filtration (8 hours to extract 1L of oil)
How to recognize a Quality Prickly Pear Seed Oil?
When you have a product with such a high price, you can always expect some counterfeits to appear on the market …
We must therefore pay attention to several things:
- Make sure you buy good vegetable oil and not the oily macerate pear flowers of prickly pear (it absolutely does not have the same properties nor the same effectiveness) Check that the product name is indeed Prickly Pear Seed Oil.
- Check if the oil you are buying is indeed pure : Some suppliers cut their prickly pear seed oil with another much cheaper oil. In that case, the effects desired from this oil will not be met nor obtained.
- Take a good look at the “ingredients” section of the product label. (if you see a different mention than “OPUNTIA FICUS-INDICA SEED OIL” then beware! This botanical name must appear on its own to be sure that it is only prickly pear seed oil and nothing more.
- Check the appearance of the vegetable oil: A sign of good quality is that it should have a liquid, fluid appearance with a yellow to green color. Its smell is slightly spicy and pungent.
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Prickly Pear Seed Oil
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$36.99 – $139.99 USD- USDA and ECOCERT Certified 100% Organic
- Effectively reduces dark under-eye circles
- Targets and diminishes wrinkles and fine lines
- Provides deep moisturization for both face and hair
- Sustainably and ethically sourced from Moroccan Berber women’s cooperatives
