Raw Organic Argan Oil Info

It is the Argan tree which manufactures Argan Oil .

This tree is unfamiliar for numerous inhabitants because it is found only in the South Western neighbourhood of Morocco in an expanse masking 700,000-800,000 hectares. The nuts of the Argan tree gives very salubrious to use oil. Afterwards oil extraction the remains are used to feed oxen and as a fuel.

The Berber women after generating oil have been harnessing oil for host of major uses like cooking and therapeutic needs.

Argain oil is evoking the curiosity of many foreigners for its several beauty and health qualities. The tenacious life span of argan tree of nearly 200 years is because of its property of tolerating extreme weather conditions. The Argan tree can endure exactly in the dry and wasteland land conditions of the South Western areas of Morocco. Its roots grow deep in hunt of water and thus help retain the soil, preventing soil eroding and constraining the advance of the desert. Argan tree not only keeps the balance of the nature but also help the people financially. Argan tree was added by UNESCO to the World Heritage List.

In less than a 100 years, more than a third of the argan forest has disappeared. The Argan tree bear green biased fruits. They appear like an olive but are larger and rounder. The fruit within has a rigid shell nut which is about one quarter of the pulp fruit weight. The origin of Organic Argan Oil is the kernels which are found inside the argan fruit nuts. The very coarse and time taking steps involved in the production of argan oil are acheived by the human hands. The manual proposal consists in first, producing the nut of the fruit then cracking the hard nut's shell to gather the kernels. The kernels are roasted by warming them in a meek flame, cooled and broken in a stone rotary quern.

The roasted kernels are mixed with water to from a mixture. Hands are then used to take out argan oil from the concoction thus extracted. These days automatic presses are introduced to pull the argan oil. The time necessary to take out 1 litre of argan oil is considerably less today. The mechanical presses are used to do grinding and extraction once the kernels are roasted. This way excess oil is obtained and the storage life of oil heightens since no water is added to the motley. Cracking the nuts is still completed by the human hand despite being the major time taking operation. Heat or solvent are not essential for the oil extraction process. The extracted Moroccan Argan oil tastes like nuts and has a darker color than olives.