Natural Sourcing is pleased to feature its premium Organic Prickly Pear Seed Oil within its growing line of specialty organic ingredients for use in innovative personal care product formutlations.

INCI: Opuntia ficus indica (Prickly Pear) Seed Oil
Method of Extraction: Cold Pressed
Shelf Life: 2 Years
Origin: Tunisia

Originally native to Mexico and South America, the prickly pear is an edible and nutritious cactus that is now grown throughout the world, particularly in South Africa, Australia, southwestern United States and parts of southern Europe. The fruit and stems are eaten in many cultures as a nutritious, seasonal treat.

Organic Prickly Pear Seed oil is a highly stable oil and is an excellent source of tocopherols (anti-oxidants). The oil possesses an astonishingly high percentage (over 80%) of unsaturated fatty acids with a linoleic acid content of 59%.

Natural Sourcing Organic Prickly Pear Seed Oil is NOP certified. It is carefully sourced and packaged to maintain the purity, freshness and beneficial properties of this remarkably nutritive, cold pressed oil.