Products

BioBrazil Botanicals Mango Butter has excellent flavor qualities and a tasty, yellow and succulent pulp and grows wild in Minas Gerais state. The fruits that grow wild throughout the Atlantic forest and Cerrado regions are our sources of mango kernels to produce mango Butter.

BioBrazil Botanicals Baru Oil is a source of lipids, proteins/calories, dietary fibers and minerals, macro and essential micronutrients, such as potassium, phosphorus and manganese, a -tocopherol, highlighting the oleic and linoleic acids.

BioBrazil Botanicals Buriti Oil is extracted from Mauritia flexuosa, or more commonly known as the buriti palm tree which can be found from the Brazilian Amazon to Cerrado. The Palm tree grows in large groups and produces an elliptic drupe-shaped fruit, of 4-5 cm diameter, with a scaly, reddish shell.

BioBrazil Botanicals Pracaxi Oil is extracted from seeds that fall from the Pracaxi tree, harvested from Feb to May each year. It is not cultivated, therefore supply of the oil is limited to its harvesting season.

BioBrazil Botanicals Andiroba Oil is renowned for its anti-inflammatory properties. Andiroba Carrier Oil can be used to promote circulation of blood in the skin and to help relieve pain and swelling during an injury. It has antiviral, anti-fungal, antibacterial, and insecticidal properties. Topical rubs can treat and relieve the physical symptoms associated with arthritis, rheumatism, burns, cuts, and wounds. Andiroba Oil has been used in preparations to treat skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis and for insect bites. It has wonderful moisturizing and rejuvenating properties.

BioBrazil Botanicals Acai Oil is extracted from (E. oleracea) Açaí which is a palm tree which grows 15 to 25 meters in height, often taking 4-5 years to start producing the edible berry-like fruit which grows in bunches 1-2 cm in diameter, with a single large seed inside surrounded by stringy fibrous sheaths and a thin oily coating. Each tree yields, on average, 24 kgs of fruit annually.

BioBrazil Botanicals Pequi Oil is extracted from Pequi (Caryocar brasiliense) which is a native fruit of the Brazilian Cerrado growing wild in most states from south to north of Brazil. The “pequizeiro” (Pequi tree) flourishes from June to September and its fruits start ripening from October until March. Pequi’s generic name is derived from the Greek “Karyon” which means stone and from the Latin “Caro” which means drupaceous and fleshy fruit. The vernacular “Pequi” is originally from native Brazilian Indian languages, as “py” is equivalent to skin and “qui” to thorn. Therefore, “py-qui” means fruit pulp full of thorns.

BioBrazil Botanicals Babassu Oil is similar to coconut oil but with much more emollient properties, Babassu Oil or Babassu butter is solid at room temperature. Babassu oil or butter is pressed from the kernels of the Babassu palm tree. Babassu kernels yield a light to medium yellow butter depending on the amount of rain and soil properties as well as the level of ripeness of the fruit when the butter is made. The scent of unrefined babassu oil is reminiscent of dry coconut copra.

BioBrazil Botanicals Sapote Mamey Oil is derived from the sapote, or mamey tree which frequently reach 60 to 100m, belongs to the family Sapotaceae with about 1,250 species distributed worldwide. It is found mainly in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Mesoamerica. It is native and common in the wild in Guatemala and Honduras, and also found from southern Mexico and Guatemala to northern Nicaragua and tropical South America where they grow only occasionally in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Brazi.