Our Prickly Pear / Cactus oil is grown organically in Syria. This means that no use is made of chemical pesticides and artificial fertilizer. There is just a natural way of protecting the cactus plants, including a certain way of weeding. This farm therefore receives the ECOCERT quality mark for the production of the cactus figs.

Then the cactus seeds are removed from the figs, after which the oil is squeezed out by a factory. This is called cold pressing, the oil is not heated or refined (as a result of which it largely loses its effect). There is also a lot of synthetic cactus oil in circulation, often also diluted with cheaper oils. This synthetic oil is much less effective and also much cheaper. This is because it takes much less effort to copy and produce the cactus molecules in a laboratory than to extract the seeds from a real cactus-fig (as with our oil). To obtain 1 liter of cactus oil, about 1 million prickly pear seeds or 1000 kilos of prickly pears are needed!

The Wild Musk Rose:

The Wild Musk Rose is a very subtle-smelling wild rose species that is very rare in nature. The Wild Musk rose oil that we use comes from a farm in Brazil. There, these rose bushes are specially cultivated. After the harvest of the leaves, the distillation process takes place. The essential oil is produced from the fragrant rose petals.