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Go nuts with this delicious oil from the desert
A little goes a long way. In this case, that means a little Argand’Or oil packs a lots of flavour. It also means this little company is doing a lot for the Berber women of Morocco.
In 1219, when the famous Egyptian doctor Ibn Al Baythar described the argan tree in his “Treatise of Simplicities” and boasted of its gastronomic qualities, he couldn’t have expected that the argan nut would help emancipate Berber women and preserve the landscape of southern Morocco.
Normally if you told someone you were using the same type of oil for your salads as you were for your face, and that this very same oil was supporting underprivileged women, they’d think you’d gone nuts. But argan oil does all of the above. It’s renowned as a treatment for common skin ailments including scars, and is used increasingly in sophisticated creams and soaps sold throughout Europe and the U.S.
Since hand-pressed, organic argan oil from the German firm Argand’Or was named product of the year in 2005 at BioFach, the leading international trade fair for organic products, the number of Berber women’s co-operatives producing argan oil for Argand’Or has risen to 20, employing nearly 1,000 women.
Working with the local association of women’s co-operatives, the company ensures that increasing demand for this delicacy doesn’t disrupt Berber communities. Traditional production methods are maintained and the argan nuts are harvested using sustainable and ecologically responsible methods from the UNESCO-protected argan forest, the only one in the world. Argand’Or also supports the cultivation of argan trees, which are among the few species that survive on the edge of the advancing Sahara Desert.
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