Review: The Best Skin Care Products Contains Argan Oil

The Argan tree produces the most coveted, luxurious oil that has been traditionally applied to hair and skin for its unsurpassed anti-aging properties for centuries. It’s no small wonder then why the best skin care products feature argan oil to be used as part of a daily face care regime.
How does Argan nourish your skin?
This miracle oil offers plentiful vitamin E content and 80% essential fatty acids, for the benefit of healthy hair and skin. When applied to the skin it preserves the hydro-lipid layers, the barrier system that prevents moisture loss through evaporation.
Additionally, a compound known as saponin, makes the skin more supple and pliant, decreasing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Reparative triterpenoids, an active ingredient, disinfects and heals inflammation due to UV exposure, healing damaged skin cells and erasing blemishes.

Argan is found in the luxury face oil serum made by celebrity facialist Joanna Vargas. This facial oil, due to it’s Argan rich content, provides tocopherols, natural antioxidants that shield your skin against a myriad of free radicals and environmental stresses ever-present in urban terrain. Toxins, pollution, chemical preservatives and additives would all otherwise wreak havoc on your skin without the potent antioxidants present in argan.
The sterolins are also a vital compound that enhance moisture retention and promote cell metabolism for a more toned, smooth and youthful complexion.

This rare North African oil features unique compounds such as schottenol and spinasterol which are the most powerful anti-inflammatories that effectively treat acne, wounds, burns and rosacea. And this also makes it prevents aging skin as inflammation has been traced as one of the causes of aging.
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Review: Nuance Salma Hayek Argan Oil Glossing Shampoo

With acai fruit, rice bran & passion flower seed oils. Helps restore shine and strengthen for sleek, smooth hair. My line is inspired by my grandmother, who dedicated her life to keeping women beautiful. My products are designed to help every woman enhance the nuances that define her individual beauty and make my grandmother proud. -Salma. Argan oil penetrates each strand, helping restore shine and protecting against thermal damage for glossy, healthy hair. Acai fruit & rice bran oils help prevent split ends and dryness for a soft, silky finish. Passion flower seed oil softens and nourishes to help retain moisture. Paraben free. Not tested on animals.

Ingredients:

Water, Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Cocamide MEA, Trimethylsiloxyamodimethicone, C11-15 Pareth-7, C12-16 Pareth-9, Trideceth-12, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Glycerin, Fragrance, Sodium Lauroyl Lactylate, Euterpe Oleracea (Acai) Fruit Oil, Argania Spinosa (Argan) Kernel Oil, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Oil, PEG-150 Distearate, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothiazolinone, Geraniol, Hexyl Cinnamal, Limonene, Linalool, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone.

Usage:

Apply to wet hair and massage into a soft lather. Rinse thoroughly and follow with conditioner.

Mechanisation Pushes Argan Oil Profits For Morocco

A Moroccan university professor’s interest in the economic preservation of the declining Argan tree has resulted in women harvesting the tree’s valuable oil increasing their income by more than ten times.
The Argan tree is an ancient species that formerly spanned most of North Africa, but due to over-harvesting for timber and livestock grazing has seen its range limited to southwestern Morocco. The trees produce nuts, which in turn contain almond-shaped pods which, when crushed and processed, yield oil that is valued for its taste and flavor across Morocco. This rare Argan oil is used in couscous, salads and for dipping breads. Rich in vitamin E, phenols and caratenes, it is also used to treat skin conditions and has recently found favor in the cosmetics industry.

Zoubida Charrouf, a professor at Mohamed V. University in Morocco, initially developed an interest in the tree and its oil for conservation reasons, but has since improved the extraction of oil by establishing processing cooperatives – such as the Ajddigue and Taitmatine cooperatives – run entirely by local women.  This commercialisation of Argan oil has boosted business in the cooperatives and emancipated the women by offering them a meaningful livelihood. Charrouf says that Argan Oil “should readily find a place of choice amid the most profitable oils for human health”. Celebrities as diverse as Sophie Dahl, model and writer, and Heston Blumenthal, one of Britain’s leading chefs, are fans.

  The commercialization was achieved by mechanizing some of the tedious production tasks, such as grinding the nuts and pressing the oil. This sped up the operation and also improved the quality of the oil, doubled its shelf life, and reduced waste. Membership in the cooperatives now ranges from 35 to 40 women, who now earn about $8.60 a day, an increase of more than ten times from when the projects began in 1997. Argan oil is now a high value niche product on the international market, and what began as a cottage industry could now provide more employment to Moroccan women.
”At the time [the project started], we were losing more than 600 hectares of Argan forest each year,” says Charrouf. “But we also wanted to convert this ecological problem into an economic opportunity. I knocked at several doors, but no one believed in my project. Now Argan oil is known around the world.” The economic opportunity that Charrouf uncovered for Moroccan women is now being supported with grants from the Moroccan government and the European Union.
“Being part of the cooperative freed me from tedious domestic work in people’s homes,” said one member of the Taitmatine cooperative. “Now I’m learning to read and write and I’ve learned how to ensure the quality of the Argan kernels. The cooperative has made me more independent. I’ve been able to visit other cooperatives in other provinces. I’ve seen how girls and women like me have been able to shape their own destiny and move ahead to develop their cooperatives.”

Josie Maran Argan Oil Illuminizing Body Butter Review and Demo

I love Argan Oil. My skin responds wonderful to it. I have used Josie's Whipped Argan Oil Butter in the past and love how soft and smooth it made my skin feel. Now she came out with a version that is illuminating and bronzing and the smell is fantastic. I love it!

Stuff I Love: One 'n Only Argan Oil Curl Cream

I am sure that wherever you are, you are experiencing a heat wave unlike any other. I have not been heat styling my natural hair, because it's pointless, I'd be sweating my hair out before my flat iron would reach my ends! I've been rocking my curls all summer, and running through product like crazy. I am a product junkie and my bathroom cabinet is full of different things I may have bought but didn't love. In order to pare down my product overload and not be wasteful, I have been going through my cabinets and experimenting with what I have to see if something would work better in combination with some of my other stuff. All natural girls know it's all about experimenting to find the right combo for your hair!

I purchased One 'n Only Argan Oil Curl Cream a while ago when Sally's was having a ridiculous sale. I'm a frugalista, so when they have a buy 3 get one free, on top of my Sally's discount and I had a coupon for another free item, I grabbed almost everything in the product line. I loved the Argan Oil Shampoo and Conditioner immediately. I also snatched up the hair mask and Argan oil, and those are also favorties. But I didn't love the Curl Cream off the bat, it was too heavy for my hair. So I used it on my son's hair, since it needs a lot of moisture. Read more at  Conventional Culture

Liquid Gold Argan Oil - Ingredient Spotlight

Earlier this year we splurged on a bottle of Moroccan argan oil, and it sits in our pantry like a bottle of liquid gold, used sparingly and savored deeply. At first we were merely curious about the intensely nutty flavor of this oil, which we had associated with cosmetics more than cuisine. As we learned more, we were captivated by the details of its history and production involving rare trees, goats, and the Berber women's cooperative movement.. read more at thekitchn.com

Shana' Experience With Argan oil

I had a bad hair experience two days ago. I was visiting my boyfriends mother in Phoenix. She used to be a hairdresser and I asked her if she would mind touching up my roots. I am a natural brunette and have blonde highlights and a lighter base color. We bought all of the stuff at Sally and when she was done with the process the roots were orange as was some orange streaks in the length. She thought maybe one more process would lighten them so she did it again, still orange. It was awful. I almost cried and told her just to put a single process chemical free dye on it and that would be that although I didn't want to go dark I had no choice, I wasn't putting anymore chemicals on my hair. Long story short, she has a friend who is a hairdresser and she took me to her salon (she "knows an emergency when she hears one") and put a gentle violet based red allover and foiled some highlights.

She also used argan oil and gave me several little packets to try. She told me my hair was still very healthy after all it went through but I do really like the oil. Is it good stuff? Will it help my hair recover? Is it good for routine maintenance? I know nothing about this stuff. Thank you. read more...