Say No To Seed Oils
What is a seed oil?
Seed oils, like canola oil, are a subset of vegetable oils. Please understand that not all vegetable oils are seed oils (like coconut oil, olive oil, and avocado oil). Seed oils are the oils that are extracted from the crushing and processing of plant seeds, using a mechanical and chemical processes to extract polyunsaturated fats that exist within the fibers of the plant's seeds.
List of seed oils:
Canola, sunflower, saffflower, corn, grapeseed, soybean, cottonseed, rice bran.
Where are seed oils found?
Seed oils are found at the base of nearly every mainstream (fancy or generic) lotion or cosmetic you can buy, in nearly every plant milk, and just about every processed food that you find in a bag or box. These are cheap oils, chosen to lower the producers costs instead of using a much more quality fat, like tallow or ghee, that would cost more due to its quality.
The seed oil process:
- Collect the plant's seeds (these are usually plants that are GMO, and have been likely heavily sprayed with pesticides and herbicides)
- Crush the seeds (which extracts about 1/2 of the oil [polyunsaturated fat] that exists within the fiber of the seed)
- Take the crushed seed pulp and soak it in a solvent (usually hexane), which is a highly flammable and toxic chemical that has the ability to break the bonds within the plant fiber which is required to extract the remaining fat within the seed fiber.
- The seed oil/solvent mixture is now placed into a giant vat for high heat cooking, where the manufacturers attempt to cook of the solvent (but does not get all the solvent out), which, if anything, cooks most of the nutrition out of the seed oil due to extreme heat. Seed oils are also unstable when removed from the seed fiber. These are polyunstaruated fats, and due to their molecular structure, are prone to high oxidized.)
- The nutrition-less and solvent-laden seed oil is now ready to be bleached, to augment the smell and the color due to the previous chemical process. They use chlorine and more head to do this, which extracts plant solids and waxes, which gets filtered off to be come Crisco as well as factory farm animal feed.
- The seed oil is ready to be bottled, shipped and sold to consumers.
Is this the kind of oil you want at the base of your cosmetic, beverage or meal?
These oils are, at best, a lubricant fit a piece of machinery. I don't think they are even worthy enough to lube my bike chain.
The only reason companies can get away with doing this is because humans are mostly lazy and do not do their research. We deserve better and can have better, but we cannot be continuing to give money to corporations that put poison in their products.
Money is the lifeblood for these corporations, and when we say enough is enough, and stop giving them dollars for terrible products (because we are now educated and know their game), we can assure they will make necessary changes in order to get your dollar back.
VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLAR. Until then, you can buy my tallow cosmetics.