REASONS YOU SHOULD USE HEMP OIL

Firstly, if you didn’t know this before… Hemp is a hugely diverse natural plant material. It has a huge amount of uses… Mostly in Material for fashion uses, car fuel and it is highly edible… In so many food products… One of the most used (& massively good for you)… Hemp oil.

Hemp oil is an oil extracted from the hemp plant. All plants in the Cannabis variety can produce the oil, but usually only industrial hemp is used to make hemp oil. Seeds tend to produce the best hemp oil, although the whole plant can be pressed for oil. Cold pressed oil which has not been refined has a rich, nutty flavour and a green tint. After refining, hemp oil becomes colourless, and the taste is very faint. There are a number of uses for it, and a variety of packaging formats as a result.

One use for hemp oil is in beauty products. It is very good to apply it directly to the skin either for an affective moisturiser or a treatment for cracked, dry skin, it even improves blood circulation with absolutely no side effects, it loves your skin… and your hair. There are so many uses for it ! It is also found in body creams, body oils and many other personal care products.

With all of this in mind.. Hemp oil is a fantastic, nutritious supplement used in food which many people aren’t actually aware of. Mostly used as a dietary supplement, taking advantage of the high concentrations of essential fatty acids in unrefined hemp oil. Lovely as a garnish over salads and other foods to add a bit more of a flavour with added goodness.

The oil contained in the hemp seed is 75-80% polyunsaturated fatty acids (the good fats) and only 9-11% of the less desired saturated fatty acids. The essential fatty acids contained in hemp seed oil are required in our diet more than any other vitamin, yet our bodies do not naturally produce them. They must be obtained from many sources in the food we eat. Essential fatty acids are involved with producing life's energy throughout the human body and without them, life is not possible.

Hemp seed oil also provides an adequate supply of antioxidants (Vitamin E), carotene (precursor to Vitamin A), phytosterols, phospholipids and a number of minerals including calcium, magnesium, sulfur, potassium, phosphorus, along with modest amounts of iron and zinc. Hemp seed oil also provides a good source of chlorophyll.

Original article from The Seed Guides