Comments on: Jardin Bio-aromatique de Ourika

By: loubna

loubna — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:08:13 +0000

Hi,
I’m a moroccan and im importing argan oil edible and cosmetic you can find us in salcedo market every saturday ) you can visit from 7 to 2 pm.

By: Oushen

Oushen — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:52:38 +0000

Argan trees exist ONLY in Southwestern Morocco, nowhere near the Ourika Valley, and the oil is manually (haven’t invented a machine yet to do it properly) extracted from the trees’ nuts locally where the trees grow. So at least that product is not produced at the Jardin Bio-Aromatique.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:09:10 +0000

Lene, if you bothered to read the short post above and comprehend it, you would realize the argan oil was purchased in Morocco at the above named garden.

By: Lene

Lene — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:11:32 +0000

this is for dp travels, would you mind telling us where in the philippines you found the argan oil? would love to know more about it as we are using the stuff but would love to know if we can actually get it from the philippines. we are an avid fun of argan oil which we use both for cosmetic and healthy purposes. hope to hear from you. regards, lene

By: Risa

Risa — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:35:44 +0000

When I went to Jerusalem, I was most impressed that rosemary was used as landscape foliage for street islands-they were everywhere growing on rocks and crevices. I spied flowering lavender in the French embassy. I think I enjoyed that more than the old churches.

By: DP Travels

DP Travels — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:14:00 +0000

i’ve visited a few of these botanical herb gardens, noticed they are all over the country. they also market the rare oil, ‘argan oil’ used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes that are traditionally produced by hand by women, which also doubles up as a community livelihood project for (older/poor) women.

By: millet

millet — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:52:35 +0000

am sure this one hectare is just the “showcase” area. the smells must be intoxicating. and my favorite lokum (turkish delights) are the ones made with rose petals.

By: Gej

Gej — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:52:42 +0000

Thanks. Oo nga. Nice concept still, to have what seems like an eden of sorts in the midst of thousands of hectares of seemingly uncultivated land, as showcase for an aromatics business. And nice pictures (ha ha, my wife bought a G11 recently, inspired by your pictures)!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:42:46 +0000

Gej, tourists not allowed into the distillery area/factory. I suspect this was only part of the story, there are thousands of hectares of arable land nearby, and I suspect a lot of the raw materials come from trusted farms in the region. Things like orange blossoms have to be gathered int he hundreds of kilos to produce any essential oils, I would think.

By: Gej

Gej — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:31:13 +0000

Thanks. I’m curious, were you able to take pictures of the small factory? I suppose the stills they used to extract the essential oils were relatively small? Like 8 liter ones?

I thought before that one needs a big area for aromatic plants (or a source of significant volumes of plant raw material – does this Jardin depend entirely on its own plant production for its raw material kaya? ) , as well as a relatively big factory for the viable production of essential oil, soaps, etc. Your post on Jardin Bio-aromatique de Ourika suggests it can be done successfully even in a small-scale.