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  • How is prickly pear seed oil made?
  • The prickly pear is the fruit of a tree called Opuntia ficus-indica, more commonly known as the prickly pear cactus. Native to Mexico, it belongs to the cactus family. Cold pressing the seeds of the prickly pears yields an oil with multiple benefits for the skin, hair, and nails.
  • How to extract oil from sunflower seeds?
  • As you probably already know, plant-based oils can be extracted via an expeller press (i.e. mechanical extraction) or by solvent extraction. The former is a more traditional process- it produces a higher quality oil whose nutritional value remains intact; but this process gives a relatively low yield.
  • Why is prickly pear seed oil so expensive?
  • The production of premium Prickly Pear Seed Oil is incredibly labour intensive and time consuming. To obtain 1 liter of prickly pear seed oil can take up to 36 hours of manual labor, and about 1 million prickly pear seeds are needed ( one ton of barbary figs).
  • Is sunflower oil seed oil?
  • Sunflower oil is pressed from the seeds of the sunflower plant (Helianthus annuus). It contains high amounts of the essential fatty acid, linoleic acid. Some sunflowers are grown to contain high amounts of oleic acid. Sunflower oil that comes from these plants is called high-oleic acid sunflower oil.