Organic Desert Date Oil

Anti-Waste Promotion: Best Before Date: November 2026

Health Uses

Use as an ingredient in your blends, as a complement to the treatments:

• Roll-on for delicate areas

• Purifying balm

• Massage oil

Uses Skin care

As an ingredient in your blends :

• Dry oils and balms for dehydrated skin

• Moisturising* and emollient skin care products: creams, two-phase lotions, masks, etc.

• Face and body creams and lotions

• Softening soaps

• Moisturisers* for combination skin and skin with imperfections

* hydration of the upper layers of the epidermis

A few ideas

• Moisturising* fluid cream for combination skin

• Gentle body lotion

• Balms for dry areas: knees, elbows, etc.

• Nourishing dry oil

• Fatigue-relieving and regenerating mask

* hydration of the upper layers of the epidermis

Instant recipe by Aroma-Zone

Step 1

Heat the butter and oil together until the butter melts.

Step 2

Then let it cool in your container

Uses Hair care

As an ingredient in your blends :

• After-sun serums

• Hair care products for dry, brittle hair

• Nourishing shampoos and conditioners for dry, damaged or colour-treated hair

Instant recipe by Aroma-Zone

Synergies Health

• For its soothing effects: juniper, wintergreen, lemon eucalyptus, thyme, lavandin super and German chamomile essential oils.

• For its cleansing properties: tea tree, thymol thyme, oregano, savory, and clove essential oils.

Synergies Skin care

• To regulate combination to oily skin: essential oils of furocoumarin-free bergamot, rosemary verbenone, true lavender, etc.

• For problem skin: tea tree, fragonia, manuka, palmarosa essential oils, etc.

• For dry, dehydrated skin: Intense Moisturisation Complex cosmetic active ingredient, plant-based squalane, shea, nilotica shea and mango plant-based butters, etc.

• For regenerating anti-ageing effects: rose hip, raspberry and borage carrier oils, rosewood and turmeric essential oils, etc.

Synergies Hair care

For nourishing and protective effects on hair: sapote, yangu, castor, kukui and macadamia carrier oils, cupuaçu, mango, murumuru and nilotica shea butters, rosewood and ylang-ylang essential oils, etc.

Culture

• Organic and wild

• Organic, certified by Ecocert Greenlife in accordance with the Ecocert standard available at http://cosmetiques.ecocert.com

Quality

100% pure and natural, virgin, first cold pressed without any chemical treatment, cosmetic quality

Production process

First cold pressing

Part of the plant used

Seeds

Botanical name

Balanites roxburghii

Botanical family

Zygophyllaceae

Function

Cosmetic ingredients

Other names

Balanites aegyptiaca

Oxidative potential

Not very sensitive

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Organoleptic properties

• Appearance: runny oily liquid

• Colour: golden yellow

• Odour: very discreet

• Feel: very dry, very penetrating and very soft

Density

0.93

Saponification index

171–175

Stable carrier oil. Store in a dry place away from heat and light.

Warning

The properties, indications and methods of use described above are derived from scientific literature and/or reference books or websites in aromatherapy, hydrolatherapy and phytotherapy. This general information is provided for informational purposes only and cannot under any circumstances be considered as medical information. This information cannot under any circumstances replace a diagnosis, consultation or medical follow-up, nor engage our liability.

Supplier documents

I. I. Nkafamiya, U. U. Modibbo, A. J. Manji and D. Haggai, Nutrient content of seeds of some wild plants, African Journal of Biotechnology 2007, 6 (14), 1665-1669.

Al Ashaal HA, Farghaly AA, Abd El Aziz MM, Ali MA, Phytochemic al investigation and medicinal evaluation of fixed oil of Balanites aegyptiaca fruits (Balantiaceae), Ethnopharmacol.2010, 127 (2), 495-501

Elie Beit-Yannai, Shimon Ben-Shabat, Noa Goldschmidt, Bishnu P. Chapagain, Rui Hai Liu, Zeev Wiesman, Antiproliferative activity of steroidal saponins from Balanites aegyptiaca - An in vitro study, Phytochemistry Letters 4 (2011), 43-47

Daya L. Chothani and H. U. Vaghasiya, A review on Balanites aegyptiaca Del (desert date): phytochemical constituents, traditional uses, and pharmacological activity, Pharmacognosy review 2011, 5 (9), 55-62

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanites_aegyptiaca