Baobab

The Baobab tree, also known as the upside-down tree, can grow up to 30 meters in an extremely dry environment. The fruit of the Baobab is one of their features, where the inside of the fruit is full of dry white sweet pulp and seeds. It finds the native of the material in Africa. It needs twenty years before the tree can start fruiting. Therefore, it is a wild crop. The fruits are being harvested by the local communities and dried in the sun, where the pulp is being used to create a powder. The seeds are being cleaned and dried for oil production. The seed has an incredibly low oil content and is therefore usually being pressed locally. Cold-pressed oil is excellent to use in cosmetic formulations because of the balanced ratio of Oleic and Linoleic high. The Baobab tree can be found in various parts of Africa, it may grow up to 25 meters high and can become more than a thousand years old. The origin of baobab oil is South Africa and produced according to the European quality measurements.