The interesting use of argan oil is in traditional medicine as a health improving natural product, for skin, osteoarthritis and digestive issues. In the last decades, research studies have shed light on argan oil chemical composition, and the biological effects of its components. Argan oil is highly enriched with bioactive substances such as tocopherols, carotenoïds, sterols and polyphenol molecules and many other substances. Each of these classes of molecules was shown to exert anti-oxidant, anti-tumor and anti-inflammatory activities in isolated cells and/or animal experiments, Read more: Prof. Dr. Mourad Errasfa, Argan oil's therapeutic potentials.
Recently, ITC publiced 'the State of Sustainable Markets', a report based on a partnership with the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, Switzerland) and the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD, Canada). This report outlines data on area, production volume and producers. Fourteen Voluntary Sustainability Standards and its impact are described. Voluntary standards are developed and maintained by organizations like IFOAM (the first, since 1972), FSC, Fairtrade, UTZ and Rainforest Alliance. The latter organizations merged, for more info: www.rainforest-alliance.org/article/rainforest-alliance-utz-merger. We highly recommand reading this report, loaded with statistics and merging trends. Here are some infographics: SULA NYC formulates with ingredients from two completely different geographical regions: the wetlands: Amazon basin and the drylands: Maghreb. We are USDA organic...
Two great options for Ph.D students to get their work noticed even more. The International Journal of Molecular Science has recently publiced the abstracts of the 1st International Symposium on the Beneficial Effects of Argan oil on Human Health, Errachidia, Morocco. for more info: http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/18/7/1383/pdf Particpants of the Argan Symposium, FST Faculty in Errachidia Prof.Dr.Mourad Errasfa: Green Medicine/SULA NYC: Trends,Challenges active participation and engagement: Prof. Dr. Tamer Elbayoumi, Associate Professor & Co-Director, Nanomedicine Center of Excellence in Translational Cancer Research, Midwestern University, Glendale, US Swiss based International Journal for Molecular Science, with Guest Editor Dr. Gerard Lizard, will publish end of this year a special edition on Argan oil. Please submit original work to Rayna Ren, IJMS, for consideration....
Skin cancer is the most common kind of cancer and quite often its early detection is crucial for the successful subsequent treatment. Unfortunately, not all people have easy access to a dermatologist for one reason or another. Therefore, scientists have been working on the development of an alternative method, which should combine both accuracy, reliability and accessibility. In its issue from 25th January Nature has reported that computer scientist from Stanford University have developed an algorithm that can detect and recognize skin cancer, which was cross checked against 21 dermatologists and performed as good as them. The first test to determine the presence of skin cancer is visual. Doctors examine the skin by looking at the mole or lesion of...
In a 2015 study scientists found a positive effect of using argan oil on postmenopausal skin elasticity. 5 Moroccan researchers (K.Q. Boucetta et al.) published in Clinical Interventions in Aging “ The effect of dietary (culinary) and/or cosmetic argan oil on post menopausal skin elasticity”. During Menopause less estrogens are available, causing the decline in skin elasticity, a characteristic of skin aging. The study goal was to evaluate in postmenopausal women the effect of daily consumption of culinary argan oil and/or topical application of cosmetic argan oil on skin elasticity. In Morocco sixty women consumed butter during the stabilization period and were randomly divided into 2 groups for the intervention period. The treatment group of 30 women received dietary argan...
