Mamey Sapote oil extraction process

[nelesedulis]

Dear friends.
Does anyone have any experience in extracting Mamey sapote oil for cosmetic use?

I have seen this product on the internet and I believe it has good properties for use in cosmetics, I believe to be similar to Argan seed.

If anyone has seen any information, please help me, because I have on average between 5000 and 10000 mamey seeds a year here on the farm.

Thank you.

[sytanta]

Looks promising! Anyone can help please?

[nelesedulis]

Thanks Sytanta, I will continue the search for information about this process of oil extraction, I think I asked for help in the wrong forum, this one only lends itself to talk about manga, annona, jabuticaba and Luc Mangosteen, a pity as there are plants interesting out of these.

I think that here only receives a minimum of attention if it is to talk about these plants, nothing against.

Looks promising! Anyone can help please?

[Finca La Isla]

You know this forum has, and continues to cover Mamey sapote in depth.  There is tons of information about cultivation and cultivars.
Oil extraction for cosmetic purposes might not have been covered and is probably better sought out in another forum.  That doesn't mean that this forum doesn't cover the fruit!??!

[nelesedulis]

Hi,

I did not mean or offend anyone, I just commented with Sytanta, who has fruit that the staff does not care much to talk about,

I think I did not say anything offensive or even that is not true, in fact I should not even have asked this in the forum, ton of information I think is a bit exaggerated, but there are some,
I did not say that the forum does not have mamey topics, only that there are few people who have interest, such as the fruit topics I mentioned.

I'm not here to fight for anything, if someone wants to talk about manga, mamey, jabuticaba, acerola, papaya, everyone is willing to talk about what they want and have the will., After all time and the Computer is yours, and you are free to talk about what you like.

After I delete the content of the post, it will be good that it does not fill anyone's patience.

I just threw this topic off as finding an income alternative for people, extracting quality oil, selling, and making money.

You know this forum has, and continues to cover Mamey sapote in depth.  There is tons of information about cultivation and cultivars.
Oil extraction for cosmetic purposes might not have been covered and is probably better sought out in another forum.  That doesn't mean that this forum doesn't cover the fruit!??!

[FlyingFoxFruits]

2.3.
Extraction and purifi cation of mamey sapote
seed oil (MSSO)
The  oil  was  extracted  in  a  Soxhlet  apparatus 
using  hexane.  The  extraction  was  performed  during 
periods of  6 hours from dehydrated and milled seeds
(with  about  15%  humidity)  until  the  samples  were 
completely exhausted. The solvent was removed from
the  resulting  micelle  in  a  rotary  laboratory  (Büchi 
RE 111) at reduced pressure.
The lipid fraction was stored in a container pro-
tected from light under refrigerated conditions until
processing and/or analysis.
The  obtained  oil  was  purified  by  an  adaptation 
of   the  Wesson  method  (Mehlenbacher,  1970).  In 
this  procedure,  the  oil  was  dissolved  in  petroleum 
ether  (1:5  mass/volume)  and  1  mL  of   a  14%  potas-
sium hydroxide solution was added to each gram of 
oil, with vigorous agitation; subsequently, 50% ethyl
alcohol  was  added  at  1:2.5  (mass/volume)  based  on 
the mass of  oil, with agitation and then resting, until
separation of  the phases. The ether layer containing
the neutral oil was processed to recover the purified
oil. It was then stored under refrigeration (−5 °C) and
protected from light until processing and/or analysis.
http://grasasyaceites.revistas.csic.es/index.php/grasasyaceites/article/viewFile/1521/1650

[nelesedulis]

Thank you FFF,

It is a complex process, I will take this file that you send me to UFV (Federal University of Viçosa), which is near here to my city at 60 km, by the file the procedure is well explained, maybe I'll try to do something mean homemade, by the file, it seems to me that they use the whole fruit, perhaps for this reason the necessity to use Hexano, perhaps to remove oil only from the seeds is easier, I already did some experiments, and I managed to make the oil to float, a centrifuge to separate the water from the oil.

With the seeds, I dehydrated the seeds, made a flour, mixed with hot water, stirred and added Na (OH), so saponified the mixture and it floated.

With the pulp, I crushed the pulp and put it in an alumina form in the sun, and over time the oil ran down the bottom of the tray, but the bees did not let me work with that mamey paste for long!

It's a lot of applied chemistry, I think we better go back to our Mangoes, annonas, Mexican garcinia and jabuticabas, Lol

Thanks for the material and as you said you did not want to offend anyone.

2.3.
Extraction and purifi cation of mamey sapote
seed oil (MSSO)
The  oil  was  extracted  in  a  Soxhlet  apparatus 
using  hexane.  The  extraction  was  performed  during 
periods of  6 hours from dehydrated and milled seeds
(with  about  15%  humidity)  until  the  samples  were 
completely exhausted. The solvent was removed from
the  resulting  micelle  in  a  rotary  laboratory  (Büchi 
RE 111) at reduced pressure.
The lipid fraction was stored in a container pro-
tected from light under refrigerated conditions until
processing and/or analysis.
The  obtained  oil  was  purified  by  an  adaptation 
of   the  Wesson  method  (Mehlenbacher,  1970).  In 
this  procedure,  the  oil  was  dissolved  in  petroleum 
ether  (1:5  mass/volume)  and  1  mL  of   a  14%  potas-
sium hydroxide solution was added to each gram of 
oil, with vigorous agitation; subsequently, 50% ethyl
alcohol  was  added  at  1:2.5  (mass/volume)  based  on 
the mass of  oil, with agitation and then resting, until
separation of  the phases. The ether layer containing
the neutral oil was processed to recover the purified
oil. It was then stored under refrigeration (−5 °C) and
protected from light until processing and/or analysis.
http://grasasyaceites.revistas.csic.es/index.php/grasasyaceites/article/viewFile/1521/1650

[sytanta]

It's a lot of applied chemistry, I think we better go back to our Mangoes, annonas, Mexican garcinia and jabuticabas, Lol

Lol

[Future]

Hexane is no joke.  I would avoid it for a cosmetic product.

[mangomike]

Second the comment on hexane, a known carcinogen. You might try extraction after grinding the kernels with acetone , methanol or ethanol. These solvents have very low boiling points and are easily removed under vacuum or with gentle heat, or a combination of these. The human body generates small amounts of acetone as a by product of metabolism; likewise with ethanol. Methanol is somewhat more toxic but again is easily and completely removed.

Hope this helps. Good luck on your project. If you need any more help, i would be happy to assist in exchange for a trip to your farm for a couple of weeks! LOL

[Future]

Second the comment on hexane, a known carcinogen. You might try extraction after grinding the kernels with acetone , methanol or ethanol. These solvents have very low boiling points and are easily removed under vacuum or with gentle heat, or a combination of these. The human body generates small amounts of acetone as a by product of metabolism; likewise with ethanol. Methanol is somewhat more toxic but again is easily and completely removed.

Hope this helps. Good luck on your project. If you need any more help, i would be happy to assist in exchange for a trip to your farm for a couple of weeks! LOL

I have done ethanol extraction with herbs and recommend it.  With a still you can reuse the ethanol, transferring extract to food grade glycerine.

[mangaba]

Neles: I think your posting on mamey sapote oil extration process should have specified if your need was for academic/scientific  purpose or for industrial use. There is a very active group in the Chemistry Dept. of Universidade Federal do Ceara in Fortaleza which has been studying the active principles /essential oils  of many plants of Northeast Brazil. They have published many scientific papers and books. The pharmacology dept of this university has investigated the action of some of the active principles in these oils  on the nervous, cardiovascular,renal and digestive systems . Once we know the scientific properties of the oil, depending on the use/application we look for industrial  need
 Oil extration process in an industrial scale is another aspect.