How is avocado oil made?
1. Prepare avocado: put avocado on the blade and press it up and down until the knife touches the seed. Rotate the avocado against the knife until it is cut in half around the seed. Take the avocado off the knife. Twist and separate avocados, half of which still contain seeds. Holding half an avocado with seeds in one hand. Insert the back of the knife into the seed, and then pick out the seed. Scoop the avocado meat out of the skin with a spoon and keep the skin. Prepare 8- 10 avocado skin according to the above steps.
2. Oil extraction: put the avocado skin into the orange juice juicer. Instead of squeezing juice, we need to squeeze oil from avocado skins. Pull down the lever of the press and put the mallet on the avocado skin. After touching the peel, press down hard to extract the oil and let the oil drip into the plastic container below. Continue to use the juicer to extract more avocado oil. Remove the plastic container containing oil. It may also contain some pulp and peel. Put the coffee filter in a fine sieve. Put the filter into a small bowl and then filter the extracted avocado oil. Leave the homemade avocado oil overnight and you can use it.
The efficacy of avocado oil
Efficacy 1: Moisturize
It can be said that the biggest and most basic function of avocado oil is moisturizing. Because it contains a lot of vitamin D and lecithin, its moisturizing effect is beyond doubt. Avocado oil is especially suitable for dry skin. Skin that lacks moisture for a long time is most likely to lose elasticity, and aging will follow. This is definitely a woman's nightmare. Avocado oil, as the basic essential oil for skin care, has the main function of moisturizing. MM of dry skin can try!
Efficacy 2: Whitening
Avocado oil also has a certain whitening effect, which can lighten spots. Can be used with other essential oils to achieve better whitening effect. Avocado oil can be used together with lemon essential oil and chamomile essential oil to achieve whitening effect.
Efficacy 3: lose weight
The slimming effect of avocado oil is also sought after by everyone. Massage the body with avocado oil can help eliminate edema and help eliminate excess water in the body, thus achieving the effect of slimming and beautifying. It is often used with essential oils such as rosemary, lemon and cinnamon.
Efficacy 4: Prevention of hypertension
Avocado oil contains unsaturated fatty acids, which can help lower cholesterol and dredge blood vessels, thus preventing cardiovascular diseases, especially for hypertension.
How to use avocado oil.
Avocado oil is sweet and fruity, with heavy taste and green color. It is not recommended to use it alone, and it can be diluted with other base oils. It can be mixed with jojoba oil at the ratio of 10~50%, and can also be used in combination with essential oils such as sage, lavender, thyme, geranium and patchouli. Avocado oil is not easy to oxidize and can be stored for a long time.
How to preserve avocado oil?
1, avocado oil is well preserved, but it can't be stored in the refrigerator because some components will precipitate at low temperature.
2. It is common that avocado oil is a little turbid at low temperature indoors, and some even produce sediment. These two characteristics can be regarded as good phenomena, indicating that vegetable oil has not been refined repeatedly.
3. Avocado oil will condense at low temperature-yes, avocado oil will be solid at 0℃, but it will become liquid at room temperature. Unrefined avocado oil is dark green.