Quality of Cosmetic Argan Oil Extracted by Supercritical Fluid Extraction from Argania spinosa L.

Table 1

Chemical composition of argan oil and olive oil [2].

	Argan oil	Olive oil
Tocopherols (mg/kg oil)
γ-Tocopherols	480 ± 7	26 ± 1
α-Tocopherol	35 ± 1	190 ± 1
δ-Tocopherol	122 ± 10	42 ± 2
Total	637 ± 18	258 ± 3
Sterols (mg/100 g oil)
Schottenol	142 ± 11	nd
Spinasterol	115 ± 7	nd
δ ^8–22 Stigmastadiene-3β-ol	9 ± 1	nd
β-Sitosterol	nd	156 ± 3
Campesterol	nd	12 ± 1
Stigmasterol	nd	nd
Others	29 ± 1	151 ± 10
Phenolic compounds (μg/kg oil)
Vanillic acid	67 ± 3	359 ± 7
Syringic acid	37 ± 5	0
Ferulic acid	3147 ± 20	51 ± 2
Tyrosol	12 ± 1	19,573 ± 37
Others	0	773,000 ± 53
Total	3263 ± 29	792,983 ± 99
Squalene (mg/100 g oil)	314 ± 1	499

nd: not detected.