Organic cold-pressed prickly pear seed and argan oil - face and hair - SOWÉ

CHF 24.90

Organic cold-pressed prickly pear seed and argan oil - face and hair - SOWÉ

SOWÉ Botanic Lab

Organic cold-pressed prickly pear seed and argan oil - face and hair - SOWÉ

Name: Organic cold-pressed prickly pear seed and argan oil - face and hair - SOWÉ
Brand: SOWÉ Botanic Lab
SKU: HBARB
Price: 24.90 CHF
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ANTI-AGING

50 ML

✔️ A duo of precious ingredients
For sublimated skin

✔️ Biomimetic formula:
Mimics the skin's natural composition and mechanisms for maximum affinity and high tolerance

✔️ Botanical actives
100% active plant ingredients, cold-processed, with no water or preservatives.

Cold processed

100% Natural Ingredients

Made in Portugal

CHF 24.90

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100% natural care for skin and hair

Natural anti-aging treatment

Vegetable oil to firm, smooth and repair mature skin

Prickly pear seed oil, rich in vitamin E, omega-6 and sterols, protects the skin from premature aging caused by free radicals. It promotes cell regeneration and collagen production, thus offering a tightening and firming effect.

Argan oil is a precious ingredient for the skin thanks to its richness in fatty acids and vitamin E. It deeply moisturizes, reduces the signs of aging, soothes irritations and promotes skin repair. It balances sebum production, ensuring radiant and healthy skin.

Hair and scalp care

Vegetable oil to nourish and protect hair while providing shine and softness

Prickly pear seed oil strengthens hair thanks to its antioxidant fatty acids, promoting cell renewal, hair growth and slowing down its aging. This helps to strengthen hair and limit hair loss.

Argan oil is suitable for all hair types, but is particularly beneficial for dry, dull and brittle hair, as well as for highlighted or colored hair. It is also suitable for scalps with dandruff. It provides softness and shine, and is ideal as a post-shampoo treatment to prevent split ends. Used for styling, it tames and smooths hair while giving it a natural shine.

Premium quality prickly pear seed oil and argan, 100% natural and organic

Characteristics of SOWÉ prickly pear seed oil and argan

Organic prickly pear flowers macerated in organic cold-pressed argan oil.
100% natural. The combination of argan and prickly pear allows to combine the unparalleled benefits of these two vegetable oils to offer you a naturally rich and powerful skin and hair care.

100% active ingredients
COSMOS certified (Organic and Natural Cosmetics) by Ecocert
100% natural according to ISO 16128 standard
100% ingredients from organic farming
Formulated without water
Solvent-free product: Oil extracted from organic argan kernels by a cold pressing process. Healthy kernels from the nuts, dried and carefully cleaned, are pressed using an auger, without the use of solvents or chemicals. Then the oil is filtered repeatedly through blotting paper to guarantee optimal quality. To maximize the benefits of our product, organic prickly pear flowers are cold macerated in this precious oil. This unique technique creates an oil rich in antioxidants, ideal for nourishing and revitalizing your skin and hair

ARGANIA SPINOSA KERNEL OIL* and OPUNTIA FICUS-INDICA FLOWER EXTRACT*
* Ingredient from organic farming and COSMOS certified by Ecocert Greenlife
** Naturally present in essential oils

Face
This oil can be applied as a serum, a day or night cream, or a moisturizing mask. It helps prevent and reduce wrinkles, dark spots, dark circles, and under-eye bags.

Body
It can be used as a massage oil, a nourishing balm, or an after-sun treatment. Ideal for stretch marks.

Hair
It can be used as an oil bath, a hair mask, or a leave-in treatment.

Organoleptic properties

Appearance: Clear oily liquid

Feel: Dry

Color: Pale yellow to golden

Smell: Slightly nutty and sweet. We recommend scenting it with one of our essential oil blends.

For your routine

Benefits of prickly pear on the skin

Anti-aging and antioxidant: fights against skin aging, prevents the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines, and stimulates cell renewal thanks to its exceptional content of vitamin E and sterols, which are powerful antioxidants.

Repairing and restructuring: repairs and heals the skin, reduces pigment spots, scars and stretch marks, and soothes irritation and inflammation thanks to its composition of phytosterols, polyphenols and linoleic acid.

Moisturizer: deeply nourishes, nurtures and softens the skin thanks to its richness in essential fatty acids.

Benefits of prickly pear on hair

Antioxidant: The presence of natural anti-free radical compounds such as tocopherols (including vitamin E), squalene, and carotenoids makes this oil an excellent anti-aging remedy. This property, combined with its skin repair and protection capabilities, allows this oil to effectively combat the signs of skin dryness and aging. It is also very effective in preventing stretch marks in pregnant women.

Softening: argan oil has a composition similar to that of skin lipids, so it quickly penetrates the skin for a moisturizing and nourishing effect. The omega-3, 6 and 9 contributions also help restore good skin elasticity. Schottenol, a sterol present in this vegetable oil, softens the skin.

Anti-aging: The linoleic acid in this vegetable oil helps the skin regain its lost tone and firmness. It restructures the skin, making it a flagship ingredient in the fight against premature aging and the appearance of wrinkles.

Nourishing: highly moisturizing due to its linoleic acid content, this vegetable oil is ideal for damaged hair, flaky and dry skin, and brittle nails. Argan vegetable oil nourishes the skin and repairs the hydrolipidic film, which acts as a skin barrier to limit water loss.

Prickly pear indications & Argan indications

Prickly Pear: Wrinkles and fine lines for mature and tired skin, bust care, scar care, stretch marks, after-sun.
Silver Nut: Wrinkles, skin aging, chapped skin, cracks, eczema, psoriasis, stretch marks, hair loss, dull hair, dandruff, dry and damaged hair.

Frequently Asked Questions

How to recognize a quality prickly pear seed oil?

A quality oil is 100% pure, virgin, and cold-pressed. It contains no additives or fragrances, is usually packaged in a dark glass bottle, and comes from seeds originating in Morocco or Tunisia.

Why is prickly pear seed oil so expensive?

Its high price is due to its rarity and production method. Approximately one ton of fruit is needed for 50 kg of seeds and to produce just one liter of oil, as each seed contains very little oil. Furthermore, the process is very long, with an average of 8 hours of cold pressing required to extract one liter of oil.

What are the benefits of prickly pear flower?

Prickly pear flower is rich in flavols, flavones, and phenolic acids, particularly gallic acid, a powerful antioxidant. It helps prevent skin aging, soothes sensitive skin, reduces pigment spots, and evens out skin tone. It also offers natural protection against external aggressions.

Is prickly pear seed oil comedogenic?

Its comedogenic index is very low, making it ideal for oily or acne-prone skin.

How do I apply my oil to my skin?

Place 3 to 5 drops in the palm of your hand, then gently massage into your face, body, and/or hair, avoiding contact with eyes. The precious oil can be used daily, morning or evening, as preferred.
Morning routine
Apply every morning after cleansing the face/body, preferably before applying cream, to allow the skin to absorb the treatment.
Night routine
Apply every evening after cleansing the face/body, just before going to bed, so that the active ingredients penetrate all night when the skin regenerates.

Prickly pear or Nopal, the queen of the desert

The prickly pear, also known as the cactus pear, is a fleshy berry produced by the prickly pear cactus and the Indian fig opuntia. These plants have naturalized around the Mediterranean, in the Rhône Valley, throughout Africa, and in Australia. The prickly pear holds significant importance in Mexican mythologies. It is notably a symbol of the hearts of human sacrifice victims.

The cactus on which this berry grows is gently named Opuntia ficus-indica, or Nopal, and it is a marvel: it requires no watering, its young pads are edible as a vegetable, and its fruits have few enemies. This cactus can serve as a fodder plant, helps combat erosion, and requires little maintenance. It is in total harmony with permaculture. Even if the prickly pear cactus sometimes becomes invasive, it is effectively controlled. It is one of the plants with a great future ahead of it with climate change.

Prickly Pear Oil Production
Prickly pear oil is therefore the result of combining this seed oil with infused prickly pear flowers for a long maceration, allowing for a serum to be obtained that contains all the active ingredients and benefits of the prickly pear.

Properties of Prickly Pear Oil
The prickly pear is a fruit with numerous properties for the skin.

Properties and Benefits of Pure Prickly Pear Oil for the Skin
Rich in vitamin E, phytosterols, and omega-6, which are natural antioxidants. They help fight against free radicals, responsible for skin aging, and maintain skin suppleness and tone.

Hydrates the skin and strengthens its ability to retain water thanks to the mucilage it contains.

Also soothes skin irritations and inflammations.

Has regenerating and nourishing properties, thanks to its essential fatty acid content.

Promotes wound healing, repair of damaged tissues, and prevention of stretch marks.

Properties and Benefits of Pure Prickly Pear Oil for Hair
Prickly pear oil, obtained from the seeds or fruit, is a natural hair treatment. According to many sources, it can make hair more beautiful and healthier, thanks to its properties:

Activates blood circulation in the scalp, which prevents hair loss and promotes hair growth. Hair is stronger and more vigorous.

Restores volume to fine hair and makes it shine.

Repairs and hydrates dry, weakened, or damaged hair from chemical treatments, sun, or weather.

Protects hair against external factors, such as pollution, wind, or cold.

Properties of Pure Prickly Pear Oil for Eczema
Prickly pear oil is a vegetable oil that can help relieve eczema, a skin condition that causes redness, itching, dry patches, and scabs.

Deeply moisturizes the skin, thanks to its richness in mucilage, a substance that retains water in skin tissues. It thus restores the skin's hydrolipidic film, which is disrupted by eczema, and prevents dehydration and flaking.

Soothes irritations and inflammations, thanks to its omega-6 content, which are essential fatty acids with anti-inflammatory properties. It thus reduces redness, itching, and burning sensations.

Renews and repairs the skin, thanks to its richness in vitamin E and sterols, which are natural antioxidants. They protect the skin from external aggressions, such as UV rays, pollution, or allergens, and promote the healing of scratches caused by itching.

The Renown of Prickly Pear and its Flowers
For decades, Berber and Amerindian women have used the prickly pear for its cosmetic virtues.
Berber women applied the oil to heal and protect their skin from the burning desert wind. They considered prickly pear oil a formidable weapon against the aggressions of time, restoring tone and firmness to facial skin. Today, the cosmetic industry is increasingly interested in the production of oil from Opuntia ficus-indica seeds.

To obtain 1 liter of oil, 25 to 30 kg of seeds, extracted from 800 to 1000 kg of fruits, must be pressed. Prickly pear seed oil is exceptionally rich in vitamin E and sterols, offering remarkable protection against free radicals.

Indian women also used the mucilage from the pads and the juice of prickly pears to prepare soaps and ointments, thus caring for their hands and protecting their faces from sun damage. The sap of certain varieties was and still is used to prepare makeup and lipsticks.