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Apricot, Dried Apricot Fruit, Apricot Seeds Dried Apricot Fruit Natural Cosmetic Suppliers Product Offered We are wholesale suppliers and exporters of :- Dried Apricot, Dried Apricot Fruit. Description A medium-sized deciduous tree, Twiss glabrous. Leaves convoluted in bud, blade broadly ovate, **7cm long by 3.**5cm wide, acuminate, crenate-glandular, hairy on the nerves beneath when young, sometimes sparsely hispid above, when mature glabrous except for the axils of the nerves beneath, petiole about 2.5cm long, glanular, stipules lanceolate, glandular on the margins. Flowers in spring, pinkish at first then white, appearing before the leaves, solitary or fascicled, pedicle very short, Calyx-tube campanulate, puberulous, 5mm long, loves rounded, pubescent, half the length of the tube. Petals sub-orbicular, 7.***3mm long, Stamens inserted at the mouth of the calyx-tube. Ovary and base of the style hairy. Drupe downy or glabrous, yellow tinged with red, stone smooth with a thickened sulcate margin. Apricot seeds are used as a drug is **1.0cm long by 0.**1.5cm wide and 0.**0.8cm thick, and is flattened-cordate in shape, the taste is thin, brown and scrufy, one edge of the seed is more acute, the other more rounded, cotyledons 2, white, oily, odour none taste bitter. Chemical Constituents The chief protein of almond is a globulin, amandin an albumin is also reported. The essential amino acid make-up of amandin, arginine, histidine, lysine, phenylalanine, leucine and valine. Tryptophan and cystine are also present. Cosmetic Uses Apricot moisturizes dry skin and provides vitamin A. Crushed apricot seeds and loofah to gently remove dead cells and its great gift for anyone who likes to keep their skin soft and healthy. Crushed apricot seeds act as a mild abrasive to dislodge and exfoliate dead skin from dry or rough areas. The seeds contain the components Vitamin B**7, which, in the body, produce a metabolite of cyanide.