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Moroccan oil is famous for its benefits for the skin, for the hair and for your general health and well-being. It has been used in Morocco for hundreds of years by the local Berber tribes who know of its medicinal value and its beauty uses. You can use argan oil on the skin, as a hair treatment or in cooking.

Argan Oil On the Skin

The oil is rich in vitamin E, essential fatty acids, saponins and many other substances that are good for the skin. It is especially known for its anti-aging properties. It can naturally protect your skin against extreme weather conditions, soften the skin and prevent wrinkles, moisturize dry skin and heal and cool down hot or inflamed areas.

It is especially good for sensitive skin types that may react to commercial products, and it can even be applied on dry eczema to soothe the irritation. It can be massaged on aching muscles after exercise or applied on injured areas to bring down inflammation, and it may be helpful in arthritis or rheumatism. You can also use it as a general massage oil or a body moisturizer, and a moisturizing and nourishing treatment for the face.

Argan Oil For Hair

Moroccan oil makes a simple but effective treatment for all hair types and especially for dry and damaged hair. Massage it into your head and scalp half an hour before taking a shower and let it absorb well before washing the residue off with shampoo. Berber women have used the oil to treat their hair for centuries. It can help to repair damaged hair, moisturize dry or split ends, make curly and tangled hair smoother and easier to deal with, and even enhance the colour.

In Cooking

The oil that is produced for cooking is often made with roasted kernels from the argan fruit, and the cosmetic variety that is meant for beauty use is cold-pressed. Roasting gives it a nutty flavour that slightly reminds that of pumpkin seed but is not as strong. In Morocco it is used in cooking and frying fish, meat or vegetables. It can be added to almost any foods but if you add it to hot foods, do it just before serving, as it seems to lose some of its health benefits if cooked. Argan oil starts to cook in lower temperatures than many typical vegetable oils.

An easy way to use it in cooking is to combine it with lemon juice for a simple but delicious salad dressing, or just drizzle it on top of a salad. It can also make a simple and healthy dip for breads or a healthier substitute for using butter. You can add some salt and pepper or other spices to the dip if you wish.

Moroccan argan oil contains several essential fatty acids including Omega-6, and its vitamin E content is higher than that of olive oil. Because vitamin E is a natural preservative, there is no need for any artificial preservatives, so the product you get is 100% natural.

The technology that underlies the design of most modern mens designer watches, and indeed ladies designer watches as well, falls into two broad categories: quartz and mechanical, and each of these technologies has its own advantages and disadvantages.

A quartz watch can easily be engineered to produce levels of accuracy that are, quite frankly, astonishing. These designs require almost no maintenance (they will often need no more than a few simple battery changes throughout their entire working life) and can be very reliable.

Quartz watch technology is an extremely innovative exploitation of a basic property of natural quartz crystals. When a direct current is applied to these silicon dioxide crystals, they begin to vibrate in a regular, predictable and entirely repeatable manner. This allows watch designers to use a simple battery to force a tiny quartz crystal to continuously oscillate and so produce an accurate driving and calibration force for a watch mechanism. This regular oscillation output is immediately converted back into the tiny pulses of electric current that are needed to allow the digital circuits to power and accurately drive the chosen watch mechanism.

The output system of quartz timepieces fall into two main groups: electronic and electromechanical. In the case of electronic designs, the output of the quartz driven circuits is harnessed to power LCD or LED displays and, as a result, can be used to manufacture units that have almost no moving parts. In contrast, electromechanical designs use the output of the circuit to power an extremely compact electric motor, which is then used to turn the mechanical hands of a traditional analog display.

Mechanical watches like Rotary watches use entirely mechanical movement systems. These designs have been used for hundreds of years, first by clockmakers and later by watchmakers. These beautiful and elegant creations are as much art as they are technology and their designs been honed, improved and perfected by generations of sublimely skilled craftsmen. These designs can also be extremely rugged, long-lasting and reliable, as the owners of Swiss army watches as well.

Mechanical timepieces use the tension of a coiled spring to drive their complex components and there are two main categories: self-winding/automatic and hand-wound. Hand-winding a mechanical watch simply stores energy in a coiled spring, whereas automatic watches use the movements of the wearer’s arm to move a weight back and forth, which in turn winds the mainspring.

Some might ask why anyone would bother with the complexities of mechanical gents watches when the simple rugged accuracy and reliability of a quartz watch is available? Well you might as well ask what is the point of a cordon bleu meal when perfectly adequate nutrition can be obtained from a frozen microwaved meal. Quite simply, for lovers of fine gents watches, the joy of ownership lies in the inherent beauty and the sublime craftsmanship of an elegant mechanical design.