Rosehip oil

Rosehip Oil and its health benefits

Rose Hip is a shrub with flexible stems, spines, and a single season flowers, five pink and white petals, when the petals have fallen off, leave uncovered the fruit of the rose, composed primarily of seeds (70% of its weight) and is from here, from where you get the essential oil rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, with wonderful regenerative properties on the skin, so it is considered the more effective in power of cell regeneration.

Originating in Central Europe, area of the Balkans, are also found in India and Africa, but its true origin is in Europe, from where it led  to Chile and began to be cultivated to the Patagonia area.

After biochemical studies in the Chilean University, its properties is corroborated as regenerative agent of the cells of the skin, being in addition excellent diuretic, and magnificent as homeopathic therapeutics in the renal lithiasis. Its application for oral route as contribution of vitamin C is recognized, it is therefore recommended to smokers, the consumption of tea of Rose Hip.  Others of their important applications is to stimulate our immune system, counteracting the effects of fatigue and exhaustion due to stress.

Plastic surgeons and dermatologists use it to treat scars, stains and burns, taking advantage of its regenerative capacity on the fibroblast, and elastin, in addition to act favoring the recovery of the collagen and the melanin (defenders of the epidermal stratum), after having lost its basal structure, in the aftermath by burns and acne.

Its action as potent antioxidant helps prevent photoaging against the action of the solar, light that is why it is widely used as regenerator of the skin of the face, emerging wrinkles, spots, scars and stretch marks.

It has action moisturizing, emollient, nourishing, repigmenting, and helping to restore the texture and firmness with the recovery of the fiber elastic and collagen where it acts, in addition to having direct action on the fibroblast, to restore smoothness and flexibility in healing tissue.

Its antitumor action is well known, since it serves in to recovering the melanin that protects the skin from the effects of UVA radiation, But in addition, as a powerful antioxidant, neutralizing free radicals product of metabolism, and improves the vascular flow with great topical anti-inflammatory effect on affected areas, either by sunlight or healing injury.

Its application in creams for the face and affected parts of the body, must be always attached to the use of topical sunscreens.

The use as essential oil for massages at spas and beauty centers, is highly respondent, and widely used in alternative medicine therapy.

Argan Oil

Argan oil and its benefits

In the East of Morocco, towards the South, grows the Argania Spinosa, known for "The tree of life".

Only in Morocco is cultivated for the extraction of the oil, its strong and long roots allow you to live in the sands of the desert with very little water, and is considered a Universal heritage of humanity since 1999.

Argan oil is the symbol of the Berbers, give work to the women of the area and its craft production, dates back to centuries Argan oil is the symbol of the Berbers, give work to the women of the area and its craft production, dates back to centuries. The tree sheds its fruits in the summer and they are collected sometimes falling already mature, others is through the use of goats who eat the fruit and during the night, while they engage in rumination, regurgitan up the seed that contains the oil, already without the green peel, the pastor seizes the moment to its compilation, thereby initiating the process of elaboration, which is always done by hand.

Its fruits contain a seed from which is extracted  the "Liquid Gold of Morocco", traditionally very important in feeding from childhood and later in life, but always in a natural, pure, without any modifications or additives, After its preparation.

 It is used for food and medicine, although when the purposes of use are the cosmetology, the pressing it must be cold, not to alter its properties to such purposes.

Argan oil is a vegetable oil with unsaturated fatty acids at 80%, of which 35% is made up of linoleic acid, and a 45% of Oleic acid. Rich in fatty acid Omega-6.

The use in cosmetics must be 100% purity, without aberrations in your process or blends, what is often called deodorized.

The properties are multiple, every day is increasing its use in all orders.

In medicine is known to improve the allergic states, eczema, for its high regenerative value, moisturizing and skin defense barrier repair, so in dermatology extends its use to many diseases, including psoriasis, given that improves the erythema and inflammation of the affected areas. It has power anti-inflammatory and moisturizing, for this reason, its use in all processes that lead to dryness of the skin, also in acne.

It is used to regenerate the keratin of hair, in the States of loss of brightness, dryness and fall.

His power over the elastic fiber does that this is fragment less against the solar effect, and has the ability to recover the skin in the distension states, such as abdominal stretch marks that appear during pregnancy. It gives to the skin shiny, moisturized and glossy appearance.

In general, has power anticarcinogenic and acts as a mediator in the restoration of the defense barrier dermatological.

Highly prized in the cosmetic industry for corrective surgery. As a healing and emollient for burns, scars, grafts, taking advantage of its anti-inflammatory properties. It acts giving force and vitality hair and nails, can be treated with pure Argan oil to retrieve its lustrous appearance, brightness and strength.

Its high content in unsaturated essential fatty acids, makes its effect on the cholesterol is very beneficial, hence, use in power is very accepted at present.

Rich in tocopherols, the proportion of vitamin E is the dual to the present in olive oil, and this makes its antioxidant effect be greater, largely neutralizing the free radicals that cause the cell premature photoaging of the cells of our skin.

In the line of alternative therapy used much for relaxing massage that combats skin xerosis, and leaves a luminous effect to our body. Argan oil, highly valued by his multiple properties for the health of man, is the oil more expensive and more scarce in the world.