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Ecla’s  Prickly  Pear  Seed  Oil  Production  Procedure  

Have  you  heard  of  Prickly  Pear  Seed  Oil?  It  contains  more  Tocopherol  (molecules  with  a  strong  antioxidant  and  free  radical  scavenging  properties)  than  any  other  oil  available  in  the  beauty  care  market  (almost  150%  more  Tocopherol  than  Argan  Oil)  

Prickly  Pear  Seed  Oil  is  very  valuable  oil  which  is  exceptionally  rich  in  both  vitamin  E  and  sterols  which  gives  an  extraordinary  ability  to  protect  the  skin  against  free  radicals.  Containing  significant  amounts  of  essential  fatty  acids  including  Omega  3  &  6,  it  makes  this  oil  an  excellent  choice  for  skin  softening  and  healing.  Regular  use  will  help  to  fight  against  dry  skin,  improve  hydration,  slow  the  aging  process,  prevent  wrinkles  and  restore  elasticity.  

 

1.  Ecla  Prickly  Pear  Seed  Oil  Benefits:  

1.  Protects  the  skin  against  premature  aging  (anti-­‐aging  activities)  2.  Tightens  the  skin  and  prevents  premature  wrinkle  formation  3.  Promotes  a  beautiful  and  healthy  complexion  4.  Reduces  the  under-­‐eye  shadows  and  eye  circles  5.  Very  recommendable  for  dry  and  rough  Hair  6.  Moisturizing  and  revitalizing  7.  Helps  repairing  fragile,  fissured  and  lustreless  Fingernails  

2.  Ecla  Prickly  Pear  Seed  Oil  extraction:  

Ecla  Prickly  Pear  Seed  Oil  is  extracted  during  a  very  time-­‐consuming  and  laborious  procedure.  The  production  of  1  liter  prickly  pear  seed  oil  takes  36  hours  of  manual  labor,  and  about  1  million  prickly  pear  seeds  are  needed.  The  seeds  are  separated  from  the  pulp  of  a  470  kg  contingent  of  prickly  pears.  Then  they  are  washed  carefully,  air-­‐dried  under  sunbeams  and  afterwards  stored  in  a  cool  and  dry  place.  On  

demand,  the  seeds  will  then  be  cold-­‐pressed  in  a  very  careful  way.  

Unfortunately,  also  chemically  extracted  prickly  pear  seed  oil  is  on  offer.  This  kind  of  oil  originates,  when  prickly  pear  seeds  are  pulverized  and  then  inserted  into  a  solvent  like  hexane,  for  instance.  Hexane  causes  adverse  health  effects  and  is  hazardous  to  water  (WGK  2).  To  remove  the  hexane  from  the  prickly  pear  seed  oil  again,  the  oil  is  heated  up,  so  that  the  hexane  can  evaporate.  What  remains  from  this  procedure  is  prickly  pear  seed  oil  with  traces  of  hexane.  Because  of  the  heat  supply,  which  is  needed  during  the  chemical  extraction  process,  a  non  negligible  part  of  the  valuable  ingredients  of  the  prickly  pear  seed  oil  is  destroyed,  as  for  example  the  unsaturated  fatty  acids,  the  natural  antioxidants  as  well  as  the  vitamins.  To  avoid  an  oxidation  of  the  fatty  acids,  some  producers  add  antioxidants,  mainly  synthetic  tocopherols  and  Ascorbyl  palmitate  to  the  Prickly  Pear  Seed  Oil.  

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We  absolutely  disapprove  of  the  use  of  chemical  extraction!  We  produce  fresh,  cold-­‐pressed  prickly  pear  seed  oil  by  treating  the  prickly  pear  seeds  carefully,  without  using  chemical  extraction  and  by  renunciation  of  higher  yields.  In  using  the  cold  pressure  procedure,  all  effective  ingredients  benefitting  our  skin  are  preserved.      

3.  What  does  prickly  pear  seed  oil  make  so  highly  valuable?  

Ecla  Prickly  pear  seed  oil  offers  a  very  high  amount  of  essential  fatty  acids  in  natural  compound.  Prickly  pear  seed  oil  contains  more  than  88  per  cent  of  unsaturated  fatty  acid  with  a  proportion  of  approx.  70  per  cent  of  linoleic  acid  (Omega  6  fatty  acid).  Linoleic  acid  is  a  polyunsaturated  Omega  6  fatty  acid  and  is  considered  as  an  essential  fatty  acid,  i.e.  this  fatty  acid  is  absolutely  indispensible  for  many  different  metabolic  processes  of  the  human  organism  which  is  not  able  to  produce  this  acid  itself.  Hence,  prickly  pear  seed  oil  has  to  be  judged  as  very  valuable  in  terms  of  nutritianal  physiology  and  it  is  also  particularly  suited  for  the  use  in  the  production  of  dietary  supplements.  

Besides,  prickly  pear  seed  oil  is  also  rich  in  tocopherols  (720  mg/liter).  Tocopherol  is  the  generic  term  for  at  least  eight  chemically  similar  structured  compounds.  Prickly  pear  seed  oil  consists  of  13.9  per  cent  Alpha-­‐Tocopherol,  81.9  per  cent  Gamma-­‐Tocopherol,  3.0  per  cent  Beta-­‐Tocopherol  and  1.2  per  cent  Delta-­‐Tocopherol.  Tocopherols  are  generally  called  Vitamin  E,  although  in  fact  only  Alpha-­‐Tocopherol  is  actually  vitamin  E.  

Tocopherols  are  responsible  for  the  impressive  effectiveness  of  prickly  pear  seed  oil  as  natural  antioxidant.  It  is  particularly  those  "guardian  angels“,  which  are  in  charge  of  protecting  all  valuable  unsaturated  fatty  acids  against  the  destruction  by  free  radicals.  Free  radicals  are  known  to  promote  the  skin  ageing  process.  Primarily,  they  originate  from  cigarette  smoke  (also  from  passive  smoking),  environmental  poisons  (ionized  radiation:  televisions,  computers,  mobile  phones,  ultraviolet  rays,  smog  and  ozone),  alcohol,  drugs  and  physical  strain.  By  using  prickly  pear  seed  oil  a  natural  barrier  for  the  most  important  cells  of  the  immune  system  is  created,  which  originates  from  intercepting  the  free  radicals.  For  that  

reason,  tocopherols  are  called  radical  scavengers.  

Evermore  cosmetics  manufacturers,  food  manufacturers  and  pharmaceutical  manufacturers  have  recognized  the  effect  of  the  prickly  pear  seed  oil  and  successfully  use  it  in  their  products.  Nevertheless,  the  extremely  time-­‐consuming  production  of  prickly  pear  seed  oil  as  well  as  the  special  appreciation  it  is  shown,  lead  to  the  fact  that  on  the  market  prickly  pear  seed  oils  blended  with  simple  oils  can  be  found  very  often.  Very  often  one  can  also  find  offerings  of  prickly  pear  seed  oils,  which  have  not  been  won  from  cold-­‐pressed  seeds,  but  from  maceration.  Maceration  is  basically  a  quite  simple  process  in  which  the  blossoms  of  the  prickly  pears  are  inserted  into  oil  and  temporarily  kept  at  average  room  temperature,  so  that  the  blossoms  can  be  "leached  out"  by  the  carrier  oil.  

This  macerate  won  by  infusing  prickly  pear  blossoms  may  be  offered  as  prickly  pear  flower  oil  but  not  as  prickly  pear  seed  oil.  The  macerate  is  low-­‐priced,  but  does  not  offer  the  excellent  qualities  of  the  pure  genuine  prickly  pear  seed  oil  by  far.  In  case  of  ill-­‐defined  product  names,  it  is  very  important  to  verify  if  the  offered  product  is  cold-­‐pressed  prickly  pear  seed  oil  or  not.  

Due  to  the  high  demand  of  our  magical  product,  Ecla  has  expended  the  operations  and  is  now  serving  the  American  market.  Ecla  Prickly  Pear  Seed  Oil  is  exported  to  the  united  states  and  available  on  Amazon