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Now Foods, Support Skin/Immunity/Vascular System & Support for Mild PMS Discomfort + Treat Menopausal Symptoms, Evening Primrose Oil (90 softgels x 1000 mg)

  • By supporting the body’s healthy immune system responses, GLA may help to maintain normal skin barrier function, as well as a healthy vascular system
  • Healthy Skin
  • Balanced Immune Response
  • Support for Mild PMS Discomfort

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Improved Fat Profile And Skin Quality With Essential Oil From Evening Primrose Oil
Fats are not created equally, and it is critical for the body to maintain a good fat profile. This means that people should consume healthy fats from food. The challenge, however, is that people do not have access to healthy fats. This is the reason why it is crucial for people to supplement with the right fats, particularly the essential fatty acids. But with so many essential fatty acid supplements out there, one of the best sources is evening primrose. This is where NOW Foods’ Evening Primrose Oil comes in.

  • May help improve the skin and fat profile
  • Sourced from natural evening primrose seeds
  • Contains 135 milligrams of gamma-linolenic acid (GLA)

Contains Healthy Fats
Evening primrose is a good source of essential fatty acids and antioxidant. This supplement contains 135 milligrams of gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), which is a good type of fat. It also contains 1 gram of polyunsaturated fats and 0.5 milligrams of monounsaturated fats. Both are healthy types of fats. With this supplement, one can improve his or her body fat profile. This can lead to a lot of health benefits.

Unadulterated Evening Primrose Oil
This supplement contains essential or volatile oils extracted from Primrose. The process of obtaining the oil is through cold pressing or steam distillation thus the active ingredient is unadulterated. The unadulterated form means that the essential oil does not contain any additives and fillers that may affect its potency and safety. Regarding concerns about the dangers of consuming essential oils, NOW Foods only to use a therapeutic grade of the evening primrose oil. This is to ensure of its safety when consumed internally.

The Benefits Of Evening Primrose Oil
The natural virgin oil contains in softgels have a lot of benefits to the body. As an antioxidant, it can help the body fight against free radicals to prevent cellular damage. It can also help decrease inflammation and improve immune system responses. As an essential fatty acid, this supplement can support different body tissues such as the heart and brain. It can also be used by the skin to improve its integrity and quality.

Can Be Used Externally
Primrose oil has been used to improve skin quality. Aside from being used internally, this supplement can be also used externally to improve the quality of the skin. Puncture two or three capsules and apply directly on to the skin while massaging along the way to help the skin absorb the essential oils. Aside from improving the complexion, the antioxidant in the essential oil can address skin irritation and also help improve the healing of cuts and abrasions. In fact, the GLA that this supplement contains has benefits to the skin.

Sourced Naturally
The essential oil is extracted from evening primrose seeds. NOW Foods only uses naturally grown and organic primrose seeds to make the essential oils. This is to ensure the highest quality supplement. The essential oil is extracted either by steam distillation or cold pressing techniques thus the essential oils are obtained using traditional means. This is to ensure that the finished product is pure and does not contain any additives. NOW Foods is convinced that natural products are always better than synthetic ones and that they produce the best effects in human health.

NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil is a pure and natural virgin oil that is pressed and expelled at cold temperatures. NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil (EPO) is an all-natural vegetable oil derived from Evening Primrose seeds. NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil is pressed at a low temperature to obtain a pure, natural, virgin oil without the use of solvents, fillers or preservatives. Native Americans valued Evening Primrose as an herbal treatment for a variety of ailments. NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil contains essential fatty acids (EFA’s) that support body tissues, including skin. NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil combined with zinc may be helpful for a healthy complexion. Gently massage NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil into your skin to ease dryness or skin irritation.NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil is rich in Gamma Linolenci Acid (GLA), and has been used historically to help promote healthy, glowing skin. Each 1 ml of NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil contains 80-100 mg of GLA – an essential fatty acid that can nourish and protect healthy skin cells.

  • 100% Pure
  • GLA and Fatty Acids for a healthy, vibrant complexion

How is your Super Primrose processed, and is it hexane-free?
NOW Super Primrose is extracted by a natural mechanical method (expeller pressed) without the use of hexane or other chemical solvents. Super Primrose is a more potent, concentrated form of Evening Primrose Oil. Evening Primrose Oil is a good source of gamma linolenic acid (GLA), an Omega-6 essential fatty acid that imparts important health benefits.

Primrose oil is valued for its gamma–linolenic acid (GLA; 18:3 omega-6) content. GLA is claimed to be effective in reducing inflammation and treating atopic eczema, diabetic neuropathy and certain cancers (McDonald and Fitzpatrick, 1998). GLA rich oils are effective in the treatment of cardiovascular disease, age related diseases and alcoholism (Broadhurst and Winther, 2000). In our diets, GLA is obtained from the conversion of the dietary precursor linoleic acid via the action of delta-6-desaturase. However, impairment of the delta-6-desaturase activity may result in the functional deficiency of GLA and leads to pathogenesis associated with inflammatory, autoimmune and other diseases (Wu and Meydani, 1996). Supplementation with GLA helps in alleviating some of the symptoms of the above health conditions. At NOW Foods, Primrose oil is analyzed for its GLA content by performing gas chromatography of methyl esters of fatty acids. NOW uses this method to confirm the identity of Primrose Oil by its unique fatty acid profile and measure the amount of GLA present in it. This is achieved by separating GLA from other fatty acids especially Linoleic and Linolenic acids. Linoleic and Linolenic acids are also present in common oils such as soybean oil, flax oil and walnut oil but GLA is unique to Primrose and some other special oils. The GLA content is accurately measured by using internal standards technique. All these steps are taken to assure that our customers get what they are buying Primrose oil for: Authentic Primrose Oil and GLA content more than 9%.

What are essential oils?
Essential Oils are the naturally occurring volatile oils obtained by steam distillation or cold pressing (expression), having the characteristic aroma of the plant part from which it was derived. These 100% pure oils are “neat”, meaning they have not been processed, diluted or manipulated in any way with solvents or other additives. Although a particular species of plant harvested and distilled for its essential oil during a particular growing season in a specific region may produce a fragrance that differs from the same species grown in a different region, many of the main chemical markers and physical specifications may be very similar. NOW’s citrus fruit essential oils are 100% cold pressed. NOW’s other essential oils are typically 100% steam distilled.

Do essential oils have a grading system to tell me which is better?
There is no official grading system that grades essential oils as A, B, C or Therapeutic grade. All NOW 100% pure essential oils are accurately labeled as such and are the highest purity and quality available.

Are NOW essential oils pure or do they have anything added to them?
All of NOW’s 100% pure essential oils are labeled as such. They also sell clearly labeled oil blends that are formulated with essential oils or absolute extracts and another oil as a base, usually pure grapeseed oil.

Natural Essential Oils by their very nature will vary slightly from season to season. NOW allows nature to take its course and does not add isolated compounds to the oil to try to standardize the naturally occurring variations of a particular oil. NOW takes both the organoleptic (sight, smell and taste) and chemical properties into account when selecting and testing NOW essential oils.

Steam distillation is a three-step process comprised of the following:

  1. The plant material is placed on a screen in a steam still. Steam from a boiler is introduced under the screen where the plant material is held. The steam vaporizes the essential oil in the plant material. Both steam and oil vapor rise to a condenser.
  2. The steam and oil are condensed to a liquid, and fed to a receiving vessel.
  3. The essential oil rises to the top of the liquid in the receiving vessel. It is separated from the condensed steam liquid (water or hydrosols). The water may be returned to the boiler and reboiled into steam.

Cold Pressing is a four-step process comprised of the following:

  1. The whole fruit is scarified, which means the peel or rind is mechanically pierced to open the sacs containing the essential oil.
  2. The whole fruit is then pressed which squeezes out the juice and oil.
  3. The oil and juice, which contains the peel and other fruit solids, are centrifuged to separate the liquids and solids.
  4. The oil liquid layer is then separated from the juice liquid layer.
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