Argan Oil Co-operative

Wow goats in trees,had the whole process explained. The tree grows a berry that has 3 shells, outside green one (eaten by goats) a brown inner shell which is then split to get a final nut that looks like an almond.

Then the nut is roasted for edible oil, or simply ground and mixed with water which forms a solid clump of brown gunge lol

The gunge is squeezed by hand and the oil extracted the gunge that is left is used as an exfoliating lotion.

All in all every bit of the tree and it's nuts are used, really cool to see the process, but very labour intensive.Read more