With the arrival of the winters, most of our skin starts becoming dry and dull due to the cold weather. We often use several layers of products throughout the day to maintain the moisture content of our skin. Often people have the underlying condition due to health problems or ageing. However, if this is the cause, then application of skincare products containing chemicals might cause long-term damage to your skin. It is better to choose natural remedies utilizing natural ingredients. The use of natural elements offers positive results, thereby preventing further damage to your health.
What is Castor Oil?
Since ages, castor oil has become an age-old natural remedy for skin and hair cure. However, today, the unpleasant tasting oil underwent a recent makeover.Castor oil manufacturers in India derive the oil from Ricinuscommunis L., also called castor beans plants. The castor bean plants are native to the Mediterranean basin of Eastern Africa. Besides, almost all the countries in the world in the warm zones contribute to the production of castor oil. India, Brazil and China contribute the largest shares of production of castor oil, while India contributes about 90% of the global exports of castor oil. The castor oil derived is versatile, pale yellow coloured vegetable oil having a distinct smell and taste.
What is Cold Pressed Castor Oil?
Unlike normal castor oil, manufacturers derive organic cold pressed castor oil directly from the castor beans. While extracting castor oil manufacturers often use certain chemicals and heat. On the other hand, cold pressed castor oil is the purest form of castor oil, as it requires no chemicals and heat while deriving the oil. Rather, the ripe castor beans undergo great pressure while deriving the cold pressed oil. The boiling of the cold pressed oil 313⁰C with the density 961 kg/m3. Cold pressed castor oil contains 85% to 95% ricinoleic acid (RA), which acts as the best moisturizers.
A Shift towards Natural Moisturizer
With a high concentration of fatty acids or ricinoleic acid, castor oil has amazing moisturizing benefits. The oil works as an emollient, thereby smoothening your flaky skin and making it feel softer. Moreover, it makes your skin supple hindering loss of moisture from your skin. Besides, using as a skin moisturizer, castor oil acts as a coating, lubricant, and conditions the strands of hair, thereby promoting growth, shine, health and lustre to your hair. With the rise in the advancement in the field of medications, castor oil lost its historic use for curing ailments, but has now emerged as a budget-friendly trendy product.
How Does Castor Oil Act as a Moisturizer?
The ricinoleic acid present in the cold pressed castor oil is the best and effective moisturizer, which penetrates easily into the skin. It soothes, softens dry and rough skin, thereby stimulating elasticity and production of collagen, which further eliminates the signs of ageing. You can use castor oil for nourishing almost all parts of your body. Here is how you can include natural castor oil in your skincare and beauty regime.
Soothe Problematic Skin
Besides boosting collagen and speeding up your hair growth, castor oil with its healing properties cures several skin problems including eczema, dermatitis, rosacea, psoriasis to name a few. With the richness of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties of ricinoleic acid, it has a dual approach towards your skin. Apart from hydrating your skin, castor oil also fights the bacteria, thereby ending the cyclical nature of irritation and itching.
Cleanse Your Face
Facial cleansers help in the removal of dirt, dust, dead skin cells and bacteria thoroughly form your skin. However, most of these cleansers have high concentration of chemicals, which not only remove the natural oil for your skin, but also causes severe skin problems and irritation. Using natural castor oil as a facial cleanser prevents development of these conditions and hydrates your skin.
Take a generous amount of castor oil and massage it on to your skin. You can leave it overnight or wipe it off with a warm and soft cloth after about five minutes. Massaging the oil will not only clean your skin, but also provides deep nourishment due to its moisturizing properties thereby decreasing the dryness. Application of castor oil helps in reducing the ageing process, making your skin look young and maintains its glow.
Heals Cracked Heels
Dryness often leads to cracked heels, which is not only embarrassing, but also painful. Besides being a natural ingredient for preventing cracked heels, it is the best treatment for them. You can experience the drastic changes within a few days or weeks. Apply a generous amount of castor oil on your feet every night before going to sleep and leave it overnight. For accelerating the healing process, wear socks. Wearing socks will also prevent occurrence of stains.
Hydrates Chapped Lips
Packed with fatty acids and Vitamin E, castor oil hydrates and moistens your dry and chapped lips. Application of castor oil before going to bed will help heal your chapped lips. However, if your lips are drier than usual, you can make your own treatment liquid. Mix lemon juice, castor oil and glycerine and apply it several times a day, replacing your lip balm for better and faster treatment.
Moisten Your Dry Hair and Scalp
If you have dry hair that is frizzy and rough, your dry scalp will cause more dandruff and hair fall. Castor oil being rich in fatty acids and essential vitamins provide enough moisture to the scalp as well as into your hair. Application of castor oil makes your hair thicker, stronger, and shinier. Proper treatment of dry scalp also reduces hair fall and dandruff, resulting in improved quality of hair. Apply castor oil in your scalp and leave it overnight for best results. You can also use castor oil as a serum or conditioner.
AmbujaSolvex is one of the prominent leaders in production of organic cold pressed castor oil in Gujarat, the leading state in India in terms of castor oil production. We strive towards manufacturing the best quality, sustainable and eco-friendly products in varied areas of industries.
Conclusion
Since the process of cold pressing is a chemical and heat free process, which only requires application of simple pressure to crush the castor beans. The pressure releases a robust oil that contains all the essential fatty acids, nutrients and minerals. The cold pressing releases highest quality organic castor oil packed with omega 6, Vitamin E and 9 fatty acids along with other minerals and nutrients that acts as the best moisturizer for your skin, hair and nails.
