Grapeseed Oil
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Augustus
Oils Ltd is registered in England and Wales at
Augustus House
Mill Lane
Alton, Hants, UK
Reg No 1950177
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Vitis vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil.
Description
A
clear and bright oil with virtually no flavour or odour, obtained by the
refining of crude grapeseed oil. Grape seeds are an abundant by-product
of wine making.
Uses:
Extensively used in cosmetics as a skin moisturiser. It reputedly possesses
tissue regenerative and restructuring properties. It contains extraordinarily
high levels of linoleic fatty acid.
Extraction:
Refined from oil pressed from the seeds of grape Vitis vinifera.
Source:
Most grape seed oil is produced in Italy
Key properties:
Contains high levels of linoleic acid. Shelf life approx 1 year.
Typical fatty acid profile:
| 16:0 | Palmitic |
7.0% |
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| 16:1 | Palmitoleic |
0.5% |
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| 18:0 | Stearic |
4.5% |
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| 18:1 | Oleic |
18.0% |
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| 18:2 | Linoleic |
68.0% |
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| 18:3 | Linolenic |
0.5% |
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| 20:0 | Arachidic |
0.5% |
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