Benefits of Avocado Oil

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We are all familiar with the Avocado Fruit. For us Filipinos, one way or another we have seen these fruits on display on the market or fruit stands. Our parents might have prepared a dessert of milk and avocadoes, or maybe had eaten guacamole with some Mexican dishes. To those who don't know, guacamole is originally made from Avocadoes.

Here in the country, not much is known about this wonder fruit aside from being eaten. We are even ignorant about the nutritional values of the fruit, while on other countries, lots of research has been discovering benefits of the avocado comparable and sometimes even exceeding those of olives. Many are even surprised to hear that the avocado fruit contains oils.

Passionfruit Oil Extraction Project

So after a few days of figuring out how to extract the oil of Passionfruit Seeds, we've been pretty successful apparently.

Since the Philippines is a tropical country, drying the seeds were as easy as batting your eyelashes. Even though its the rainy season, a quick date with the morning and midday sun, the seeds were dry. What we were attempting is a cold-press method. When you're going natural, there's no way but cold-press, although its quite a tiresome method.

We're Making Passionfruit Seed Oil

Nowadays, in order to get high quality natural products, people have to do it on their own. That's really how Casa de Lorenzo Soaps came about, since we don't want to use detergents sold as soaps on our skin anymore, we made our own soaps (Read Why I Started Casa de Lorenzo). It was enjoyable, and one variant came after another. We're having so much fun in doing things on our own, we've decided since there's a shortage of supply of quality natural products here in the Philippines, we're going to make raw materials ourselves and one of our targets is making Passionfruit Seed Oil.

Soften Your Hands with Avocado

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Its May already, and here in the Philippines, the season of Avocado is about to reach its peak. Such a great time to take advantage of the things this seasonal fruit brings.

Did you know that Avocado in general is a great source of ingredients for beauty products? It is rich in essential nutrients and amino acids that are extremely beneficial to skin. Here's one of the ways on how your skin can benefit from Avocado aside from just eating it.

Natural Liquid Soaps Cash On Delivery

Great news! We are now offering Cash-On-Delivery basis for our Natural Liquid Soaps. Actually it applies to all products of Casa de Lorenzo. If you haven't had any experience using credit cards, GCash, Smart Money, Bank Deposit Payments, or PayPal, but still want to buy our products, you can pay when you get your orders. Available only to Metro Manila and Metro Cebu deliveries.

Making Your Own Natural Liquid Soaps

What's the best thing that can happen to your bath products? Its when you begin using natural stuff. But it gets better if you can make your own right at your own home right? Well, this is exactly what this article is about, being able to make your own natural liquid soaps.

To make your own natural liquid soaps at home, there are 4 things you need. These are natural liquid soap, additives, scents and bottles. Putting them together is really easy, you won't break a sweat in your brow, but you need to familiarize yourself with your materials before proceeding.

Mineral Oil - Avoid or Keep using?

There are many things that come into mind when mineral oil becomes the subject of any discussion.It is a fact that more than 90% of all cosmetics and skin products nowadays contain mineral oil. From adult products to baby products, mineral oil is present in quantities that would surprise any common Filipino. All you have to do is to read the labels. It is sometimes called by the following names: white oil, liquid paraffin, liquid petroleum, and a lot more others. Sounds scary right? But before you make a judgement call right now, read further to know more.