How to make pumpkin oil at home

Autumn is the time of harvest. Among vegetables grown in gardens and summer cottages, large, orange-colored pumpkin fruits attract attention. Almost everyone knows about the beneficial properties of pumpkin, but many do not even realize the benefits of the oil made from it.

What is pumpkin oil good for?

In its content, the oil is rich in vitamins, trace elements, acids. Its composition is quite diverse:

1. Highly valuable omega-3 acids help with arteriosclerosis.
2. Stimulating the work of the heart, strengthening the bone system of potassium and calcium salts, iron.
3. Vitamins of various groups and carotene normalizing the metabolic process.
4. Magnesium, which performs the supporting function of the brain.
5. Trace - selenium, which prevents the occurrence of malignant tumors.
6. Elements that regulate the functioning of the biliary system. These include phospholipids and flavonoids.

Pumpkin oil and nutritionists recommend their patients. Its use helps to cleanse the liver, regulates the contraction of the gallbladder, which is a necessary condition when following a diet. Pumpkin seed oil is a must in the fight against excess weight.

Oil will help to cope with morning swelling under the eyes, with allergic reactions and problem skin. Children use it is desirable to increase immunity. This is just a universal remedy.

Do it yourself

Of course, pumpkin oil is currently available at any supermarket, hypermarket or pharmacy. But, prepared from seeds at home, such an oil can never be compared in its taste and useful qualities with factory production. The independent manufacturing process is long, but the result will exceed all expectations. The product will be the most natural. True, there is one drawback of home cooking - a bitter taste, which excludes its use in cooking.

The oil manufacturing process consists of five stages:

1. Seeds must first be dried, preferably in the sun. Then one kilogram of pumpkin seeds is peeled.
2. Seeds are filled with water, while making sure that it completely covers them.
3. The tank warms up on fire for several minutes. Do not boil.
4. Water drains, seeds are crushed. To do this, you can use a meat grinder, combine or blender.
5. The mass is laid out in a pre-prepared cheesecloth, folded in four layers, and manually wrung out. The oil is ready.

From one kilogram of pumpkin seeds, about 150 grams of oil is obtained. Of course, this is not enough, but for treatment or cosmetic procedures is enough.

Storage and use of pumpkin oil

Making oil from pumpkin seeds by yourself is not all; you need to learn how to store it correctly so that the product does not lose its healing properties. Cool rooms with dark places are ideal for oil. Heat and light adversely affect the quality and properties of the pumpkin product.

1. Oil is widely used in folk medicine, healers advise taking it three times a day, one teaspoon immediately before meals.
2. Cosmetic procedures with pumpkin seed oil are performed to nourish, moisturize and rejuvenate the skin. With it, you can make a face mask or use as a night cream. Especially useful oil for dry and aging skin. It eliminates age spots, small wrinkles.Long-term use makes the skin smooth, it ceases to peel off.
3. You can use the product for preventive purposes. This is the best protection against sunburn and the harmful effects of sunlight, while tanning is evenly distributed.
4. With pumpkin seed oil, you can add volume, freshness and shine to your hair. To do this, add about 50 ml to the shampoo, which is used regularly.

Having made oil from pumpkin seeds at home, you can immediately get a free medicine and a whole beauty salon.

Contraindications

Pumpkin seed oil, like any other drug, has certain contraindications. It is strictly forbidden to take this product to people suffering from cholelithiasis, chronic cholecystitis. If there is a history of diabetes, oil inside is used with caution. In rare cases, there is a possibility of individual intolerance to the product.

Video: pumpkin oil production with a wooden press