Argan oil properties

Argan oil proprerties.

Argan oil nourishe the skin and preserve the elasticity.

Argan oil is rich in natural ingredients that play an important role in cell renewal.

Historically, women using Moroccan argan oil for body care to combat the arid climate of Morocco.

• Argan oil protects the skin while reducing the traces left by the buttons acne or chickenpox.


• Argan oil also reduces injuries caused by burns and cracking, it is perfectly against stretch marks.


• Argan oil nourishes and strengthens brittle nails or against nail damaged.


• Argan oil can be used for hair care, it makes the hair shine dull.

• Argan oil stabilizes cholesterol by reducing bad cholesterol and increasing the level of good cholesterol.


• Argan reduces hypertension.


• Argan oil has an anti-obesity by acting as an appetite (food consumed in the morning) .


• Argan oil has a positive effect on the functioning of the liver.

It neutralizes free radicals and protects the tissue.
Argan oil recovery and stimulate trade and cellular oxygenation by improving the quality of intercellular cement.
It acts against drying of the skin and the physiological aging of the skin (anti-wrinkle) restaurant in the film hydrolipidic and increasing the nutritional level of the cells. Interest in schotténol in argan oil which would have anti-carcinogenic.

The amandons of argan oil roasted food is what gives this a bit more color and amber that smell a little more pronounced than argan oil cosmetics.

For brittle nails:
Mix a little lemon juice in your argan oil cosmetics.

Dip your fingers in the argan oil a quarter of an hour and then lightly massage your nails in a circle, one to repeat the exercise twice a week. Take argan oil mixed with lemon.

For body massage:
You can get a massage at the argan oil cosmetics, food argan (roasted), but the top is a massage with argan oil to gasoline or natural essential oils.

Argan oil and argan tree

Argania spinosa, grows only in southwestern Morocco.

The argan tree, Argania spinosa is a tree that belongs to the family Sapotaceae. It dates from the Tertiary era, would be spread over a large part of Morocco and was then returned to south-west by the ice invasion. This would explain the existence of some settlements across Morocco. But argan forests now cover in arid and semi-arid south-west of Morocco.

The argan tree is a tree of a special forest and fruit exceptional, it represents about 65% (700,000 ha) of forest area of the South West Morocco. This region is classified by UNESCO World Heritage Site, the argan represents by itself a symbol of the ecological and socio-economic context of the southern kingdom. It plays a major role in the fight against desertification in the drylands. It also provides the livelihood of nearly 3 million rural. Indeed it is a tree with multiple uses, all products are being exploited, the wood in the form of coal, its leaves, bark and fruit residue of amandons (cake) serve as food for animals.

Argan craft

Argan oil, craft extraction.

In the region of Essaouira, a few hours Marrakesh grows a tree you will find nowhere else: the argan tree. Learn how to manufacture the famous Argan oil and Moroccan salads.


This tree is valuable here. It provides the population of this desert region near the wood for fuel fodder for goats and especially fruits, used in the preparation of the very virtuous argan oil.


Produced for generations by the Berber women who used it for their food and cosmetics, argan oil to dietary qualities recognized gradually finding its place in Western cuisine.

It remains a rare and difficult to obtain because it is produced by a process long and tedious craft.

At the entrance of the villages, there are small houses in which brings together women who are employed to break small brown nut with a pebble the size of a fist. Or this can happen on the outside when the sun is not too hot in the shade of a tree.


While discussions of women lost in the clatter of stones breaking kernels, we learn than argan oil only made at home by single women is now an increasing issue of cooperatives. These groups are encouraged by the associations for sustainable development.


Their approach has not only designed to create jobs but also through better resource management to preserve the argan threatened by misuse. Women working full time in cooperatives to produce all year argan oil commissioned by merchants in the region and the world.

The fruits of the argan tree, a sort of small green pears are harvested in July-August. They are then dried to facilitate pulping (separation of the pulp and kernel), which is now done mechanically.



Then crushing, long and delicate phase during which the women suddenly pebbles rid the core of its bark, but do not break the kernel.






That argan almonds that will be roasted for food argan oil, then crushed with a traditional windmill.




The result is a cream that women will mix with warm water and squeeze their hands.




You can extract argan oil from the sweet scent of hazelnuts.

It takes a total of ten hours to make one liter of argan oil.



At the time of the break, with workers of Argan, a cup of hot tea in one hand while the other tempering an excellent homemade bread in oil freshly pressed.

To take a taste of bread dough Amlou creamy obtained by mixing the argan oil to almonds and honey. Recommended by dieticians, argan oil is rich in essential fatty acids may be used to enhance the flavor of your salads or used to prepare hot meals such as mutton tagine.

Argan oil cosmetics prepares the same way except that the amandons are not roasted.

Argan oil cooperative

Did you know?

The truth about cooperatives in Morocco.

Do you think argan cooperatives are good for Moroccan women?

Watch this woman, she was happy to air breaking nut amandons sitting on the floor all day?

Do you really think that people are completely illiterate create a structure as complex as a cooperative argan oil?

That these same people can manage a business and develop a marketing campaign?

Do you think the salary of 100 to 200 € / month is sufficient for 8 to 10 hours peer day?

Working tool

Where goes the money of argan oil that you pay so much?

In the pocket of those who manages the cooperative or to charities?

We give good conscience without looking beyond these photos very "Photo Travel" when there are businesses that work in a modern way without forcing women to break argan nuts between two rocks to please tourists.

Do you think these women are declared and have a social security?