Pataua Oil - Unrefined & Wild Harvested

What is Ungurahua Oil? Ungurahua Oil, also known as “Milpesos,” ungurahui, seje, and recently shortened to simply Rahua™ - a hair treatment brand with the same name - is extracted from the fruit of the Seje palm (Oenocarpus bataua), which is native to tropical rain forests from Panama to South America, including Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.The palm, which can reach 82 feet high, has only one stem with inflorescence arranged in the form of a horse’s tail. It starts producing fruit in its eighth year, with only up to 3 inflorescence per year, which take between 10 to 14 months to develop.Each palm produces an average of only 2 bunches (inflorescence) of fruits per year, which are harvested from June to December, for an equivalent of 32 kg of fruit that yields only 2.4 liters of oil. This fact makes the oil extremely expensive to produce on a large commercial scale.Remote indigenous communities traditionally extracted the oil by cooking the fruits in bo