Evening Primrose Oil is a clear, light yellow expeller pressed oil that is rich in GLA (gamma linolenic acid). It is food grade and is often recommended in treating problem skin conditions. Store in cool dark or refrigerated area.

Evening Primrose Oil promotes healthy skin and hormonal balance. It naturally supplies the important omega-6 fatty acid GLA, which is rarely found in foods.

Evening Primrose Oil contains GLA which is known to help prevent hardening of the arteries, heart disease, PMS, multiple sclerosis, inflammation, enhances the release of sex hormones including estrogen and testerone, aids in lowering cholesterol and used in the treatment of cirrhosis of the liver.

Evening primrose oil also contains 1 to 2% unsaponifiables rich in beta-sitosterol and citrostadienol. This composition is specific given the high content in gamma-linolenic acid, a rather rare fatty acid with worthwhile pharmacological properties.

Essential fatty acids are actually renowned as precursors of the molecules of the immune metabolism (leucotriens, prostaglandins) and of blood coagulation (thramboxanes). They are also precursors of some constituents of the cell membrane phospholipids they ensure the fluidity of due to their stereochemical configuration. To obtain these molecules, several steps are necessary, some of which can be inhibited by diseases or by ageing. Gamma-Linolenic acid is a direct precursor of these molecules and, as such, enables to do away with some steps and make up for possible deficiencies.

100% Pure Solvent Free. Our unique extraction technique relies solely on the force of hydraulic pressure to press out the oil from the seed. We use no solvents and especially no hexane in our extraction method. The result-you get the purest Evening Primrose Oil with a high GLA concentration with No Chemical Solvents.

Gamma-Linolenic acid is a choice ingredient in cosmetic products due to the fact it maintains the skin elasticity. It is particularly recommended for dry and devitalized skin. Evening primrose oil presents moisturizing, nourishing and restructuring properties due to its high content in unsaturated fatty acids. It thus has anti-ageing properties, but also presents seboregulating and nail strengthening activities. In formulation, it is a compound of the oily phase. It is thus a recommended ingredient in:

moisturizing creams for dry skin
restructuring creams for around the eyes and mature skin
anti-wrinkle creams
hand creams
lip balms
nail products

Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': Astringent and sedative. The drug extracted from this plant, though not in very general use, has been tested in various directions, and has been employed with success in the treatment of gastro-intestinal disorders of a functional origin, asthma and whooping cough.

It has proved of service in dyspepsia, torpor of the liver, and in certain female complaints, such as pelvic fullness.

King's American Dispensatory, 1898: An ointment made by boiling the twigs, leaves, and bark, in lard or tallow—or a strong decoction of these—has been found very efficient in curing tetter, milk-scall, and other cutaneous affections of infants.

Collect the material when the plant is in flower. In fomentation, or when recent, the bruised leaves form an excellent application to ulcers.

Internally, oenothera has been used for a number of purposes, and its specific field of action seems none too well established. It has, however, been accorded a place in the treatment of gastro-intestinal disorders of a functional character. Dr. Scudder points out as the indications for it, a sallow, dirty skin, with full and expressionless tissues, an expressionless face, an unnatural and large tongue, having the sallow, dirty hue of the skin, and the patient's mentality is of a gloomy and despondent character. Under these conditions he has employed it with success in dyspepsia, hepatic torpor, splenic and mesenteric glandular enlargements, and in female disorders, with torpor and pelvic fullness.

The dyspepsia met by it is that form associated with vomiting, distressing sensations after taking food, restlessness at night, and frequent desire to pass urine. When cholera infantum and watery diarrhoeas assume a choleraic form, it has been asserted to act well, as it does in dysentery, with marked tenesmus and bloody stools. The intestinal irritation and consequent liability to destructive inflammation of Peyer's patches, in enteric fever, is said to be lessened by the timely administration of oenothera (Webster). It relieves difficult respiration and chronic asthma, with gastric complication.

The dose of the fluid extract ranges from 5 to 30 drops; of a strong tincture of the recent plant (98 per cent alcohol), from 1 to 15 drops.