Food & Health

CO2 extraction permits to obtain oily extracts from natural products at low temperatures and without using organic solvents.

Compared to cold press extraction, CO2 is specially good when high yields are required or when starting amount of oily material is not high. In these cases, cold pressing is not able to extract the oil and CO2 is the alternative.

So, CO2 extraction is widely used to obtain high value oils to be used as Food suplements, flavours, antioxidants, from vegetal materials like:

  • Seeds: brocoli, lupin, carrot, pomegranate, sesame, blackcurrant, pepper, cumin…
  • Berries: Saw pametto, raspberrie, sea buckthorn…
  • Nuts: almond, hazelnut, cashew…
  • Roots: angelica, ginger…
  • Flowers and/or leaves: Chamomile, Oregano…

Extracts

palmera

SAW PALMETTO OIL (SERENOA REPENS)

Chamomile extract

CHAMOMILE EXTRACT

olivos

SEA BUCKTHORN EXTRACT

Rosemary

ROSEMARY

ginger

GINGER OIL

alga-marina

MICROALGAE OILS

granada

POMEGRANATE SEED OIL

raspberry

HOP EXTRACT

comino

CUMIN OIL

PEPPER

PEPPER OIL

Cosmetic oils and fragances for perfumes

Supercritical CO2 extraction is a solvent free, effective and innovative process to obtain oils and natural extracts are usually searched as attractive fragrances or active ingredients by Cosmetic industry.

Compared to cold press extraction, CO2 is specially good when high yields are required or when starting amount of oily material is not high. In these cases, cold pressing is not able to extract the oil and CO2 is the alternative. CO2 extracted oils add value to cosmetics enhancing their functional action and / or pleasant attributes.

Our services include:

EXTRACTION OF FRAGANCES AND FUNCTIONAL INGREDIENTS

  • Natural extracts from vegetal sources ((botanicals, spices, seeds, roots, etc.) with high-added value because of their aromatic features or other labelled functionalities for cosmetics that may be obtained by supercritical CO2 extraction: extracts from angelica root, lavender, rosemary, pepper, ginger, cardamom, ambrette,… are examples of recognized supercritical CO2 extracts used as odour ingredients in perfume formulations.

In many cases flavour ingredients are not in high concentration in the natural materials. Besides, extraction process has to be selective to avoid the extraction of other not interesting substances that reduce the quality and purity of the extract. Supercritical CO2 extraction is in many cases the best solution for the obtention of these perfumery ingredients, extracting them from

  • Seeds: ambrette, cardamom, pepper…
  • Berries: juniper Berry…
  • Roots: ginger, angelica…
  • Flowers and/or leaves: lavender, chamomille, arnica…

We offer our processing services to obtain your extracts with supercritical CO2 extraction technology.

CO2 is a green solvent, and ALTEX is organic certified, so organic certificate is available for the extracts obtained with this technology at our facility.

EXTRACTION OF FINE OILS AND VEGETAL FATS (NATURAL BUTTERS)

  • Fine oils from vegetal sources such as rice bran, grape seeds, sesame seeds, almonds, pumpkin seeds, pepper, …are some examples of oils included as ingredients commonly used in cosmetics in the 2006/257/CE list and may be obtained by CO2 extraction.
  • Very valuable vegetal butter such as cocoa butter,l apricot kernel butter or shea butter are also obtained with CO2 extraction.So, CO2 extraction is widely used to obtain high qualit oils to be used as cosmetic ingredients, from natural materials like:
    • Seeds: amaranth oil, cumin oil, chia oil, pomegranate seed oil, rosehip seed oil, moringa oil…
    • Berries: juniper berrie…
    • Nuts and cereals: almond oil, rice bran oil, wheat germ oil…
    • Flowers and/or leaves: árnica oil, Chamomilla, lavender, Marigold oil…

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