Best Argan Oil

Because of its diverse benefits, Best Argan oil is somewhat of a superfood for the hair and complexion. It effects anti-aging, therapeutic, and simply sensual. Deep yellow with a barely perceptible grassy aroma, it is quickly absorbed. The ability to moisturize deep into the skin, which helps erase wrinkles and brighten a lackluster complexion. For the hair, it adds depth and shine to dreary locks. Loaded with vitamin E, fatty acids, and anti-inflammatory properties. The best argan oil treats scars, acne, eczema, and psoriasis. It is both glamorous and a highly effective workhorse.  Therefore,  made from nuts that are endemic to Morocco. Thus, making it one of the country’s most visible national treasures.

Where Does the Best Argan Oil Tree Grow: Source: Vogue

The argan tree grows only in the Sous Valley, a 9,900-square-mile area south and east of the Atlantic beach resort of Essaouira. Women’s cooperatives have sprung up throughout the area and have greatly improved the livelihoods of Berber women, who with the production of argan oil. (Many Western brands, such as Neal’s Yard Remedies, Nectarome have partnered with these co-ops.) The nuts resemble almonds in their whole form.

Testimonies of the Local 

If a journey to the cooperatives is not in the cards, it’s satisfying to pick up a few bottles in Marrakech, close to the source, especially when awed by the dewy complexions of local women. Much of the product crowding the stalls in the souk is either adulterated, impure, or actually cooking oil bottled to look like a cosmetic (though if it bears the name of a women’s cooperative on the label, it should be safe). I consulted the concierge at La Mamounia, arguably the finest hotel in Morocco, about the best place for argan oil or Nectarome shops in Menara mall. I knew he would steer his worldly guests right, and he duly pointed me to aromatic heaven.

Nectarome Bio Garden

Located in an immaculate but otherwise nondescript mall on the road to the Menara, the Nectarome boutique brims with creams and oils fashioned from Morocco’s most fragrant healing plants—rose, orange blossom, Barbary fig, lavender, rosewood. There is ghassoul soap made from the country’s famous restorative clay, and luscious Nigel and sweet almond oils for the skin. Its argan oil is as pure as it gets—cold-pressed, along with all of the extracts used in the line, in its own organic bio gardens located in the Ourika Valley, just 20 miles from Marrakech. Best to apply argan oil neat, but I could not resist a bottle of the most divine concoction I’ve ever smelled— a serum of argan, neroli, and fig oils.