How Argan Oil Is Made In Morocco ?

Traditional Method

Traditionally, argan oil produced by women only. First, the soft pulp is removed (usually to feed) and the hard nut is cracked by hand between two stones. Then the seeds are removed and kept gently roasted in clay slabs for culinary argan oil, or non-burned for cosmetic argan oil.

The granules (burnt) are crushed with a manual millstone, offer a brownish dough which is then mixed by hand with warm water and to hold down to win the oil manually. The recovered paste is bitter, still oil-rich and is used for animal feed. Argan oil is decanted and allowed to stand for approximately two weeks so that solids suspended in the argan oil to the bottom. Argan oil can then be filtered, depending on the brightness and degree of purity is required.

Industrial Method

Argan oil can also be of finely ground seeds are extracted by means of lipophilic solvents which to solve a chemical compounds with the ability in its oil, and other lipids. Argan oil is directly obtained after the evaporation of the solvent. For example, argan oil have a very low concentration of solvent residue, about 5 to 10 ppm (parts per million). But even with such small as possible residue (less than 0.0001%), the residual pesticide is a potential effect on individuals with an impaired immune system.

Many aromatherapists do not agree with the use of absolutes for people with weakened immune systems due to the potential impact of residual pesticides.

Cooperatives Method

Currently, women are organized in cooperatives to extract argan oil using the dry compression method. They use machines to pull off peel and pulp, gas burners to cook kernels and mechanical presses to make mixing the dough with water witch unnecessary. this new method is the increased yield in oil, the production of oil from a flavor is allowed reproducible on a large scale and have shortened the most painful tasks.

In this way, argan oil is kept 100% organic and pure. You can have % 100 Pure Argan Oil with ArganRain Argan Oil!

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