What speaks for Oleador prickly pear seed oil?
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
