The oil is extracted from the fruit or/and seeds of the sea buckthorn plant. The relatively complex process of planting and harvesting explain the somewhat higher price of products with sea buckthorn oil, at least if the ingredient is contained in appropriate quantity and quality. A special property of the oil is its high content of saturated palmitic acid and monounsaturated palmitoleic acid. The latter, in particular, is usually found to this extent in animal fats. The oil from the seeds of the plant contains a significantly higher proportion of the unsaturated fatty acid, which makes it more susceptible to oxidation. The oil is therefore very easy to spread on the skin and is quickly absorbed into the skin.
Sanddor fruit pulp oil has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. Through studies, its significant wound healing has already been confirmed. Due to its additional cell regenerating properties, it stimulates the skin's own metabolic processes as well as the formation of new cells. These properties make it particularly valuable for wound healing as well as for slow aging care. The wound-healing and anti-inflammatory abilities of the oil are particularly pleasing to skin affected by neurodermatitis, sun damage and rosacea.
Due to the contained fruit acids, the oil should not be used pure or in too high a concentration. As so often and especially in natural cosmetics, it is also said here, "the mixture makes the poison". As an admixture in cosmetic products, it can develop its wonderful effect completely non-irritating.
Sea buckthorn seed oil has a high content of linoleic and alpha-linoleic acid. With the phytosterols and tocopherols (vitamin E) also contained, it has a particularly supportive effect as a wound-closing, moisture-binding and healing agent. Thus, sea buckthorn seed oil is particularly suitable for scaly, dry skin, allergies as well as inflamed impurities.
The CO2 process now makes it possible to extract particularly valuable active ingredients from plants even more gently and therefore more stably. In contrast to conventional steam distillation, the plant components are extracted by heating and then cooling carbon dioxide (CO2). The result is a CO2-residue-free vegetable oil of the highest purity. The process is relatively new and relatively expensive due to the costly equipment required for the process. In the INCIS, a vegetable oil produced by CO2 extraction is labeled accordingly.
The most important key facts are briefly and concisely listed here:
- 30 times more vitamin C than oranges
- extremely high concentration of vitamin E - neutralizes free radicals and helps the skin to protect itself against external aggressive stressors
- very rich in carotenoids (pro- vitamin A), vitamin A and K
- rich in omega 7 and omega 8 fatty acids
- it mitigates the harmful results of sun exposure on skin
- soothes irritated skin
- also a skin, which is particularly sensitive and reacts to a lot of things tolerates sea buckthorn oil excellently
- particularly suitable for rosacea, neurodermatitis and sun-irritated skin
- supports slow-aging care, as it promotes the healing of the skin and its cell regeneration
- it is also said to help against fungal infections
Sources for this report include
"Naturkosmetische Rohstoffe" by Heike Käser, published by Freya Verlag
Study "Medicinal and therapeutic potential of Sea Buckthorn" by Geetha Suryakumar and Asheesh Gupta, published in the journal of ethopharmacology
"Love Your Skin" by Abigail James, published by Kyle Books
"An Atlas of Natural Beauty" by Victoire de Taillac and Ramdane Touhami, published by Simon & Schuster
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