How to Make Rice Oil
Now that you know how to make rice oil, you can enjoy its benefits for your health and beauty. Rice oil is a light, non-greasy oil perfect for use in skin care products and massage oils. It is also a good choice for cooking because it has a mild flavor and a high smoke point.
In addition to being healthy and versatile, rice oil is also affordable and easy to find. You can buy it at most grocery stores or online. So why not give rice oil a try? You may be surprised at how much you like it! Read on to know more!
8 Benefits of Rice Oil
1. Moisturize dry skin: Rice oil contains essential fatty acids that can nourish and moisturize dry skin.
2. Fight acne: Rice oil contains antioxidants that can fight against free radicals, which can cause acne and other skin diseases. Rice Oil also contains linoleic acid, a natural anti-bacterial agent for your skin.
3. Treat dandruff: Rice bran oil is rich in nutrients that can moisturize your scalp and treat dandruff.
4. Treat dermatitis: Rice oil is rich in gamma-oryzanol, which has anti-inflammatory properties perfect for treating dermatitis or skin inflammation.
5. Soothe inflammation: Many people apply rice oil to the skin to soothe inflammation caused by dermatitis or rashes due to allergies. It is also used as an emollient for eczema-prone skin to help retain moisture.
6. Beneficial for dry hair: Rice bran oil is perfect for dry, damaged, or processed hair because its moisturizing benefits can bring back the shine in your tresses.
7. Fade age spots: If you have sunspots, apply rice bran oil daily on the desired skin area to fade age spots.
8. Nourish skin: Rice oil contains essential fatty acids that nourish the skin and prevent wrinkles, lines, or other signs of aging.
Step by Step Guide: How to Make Rice Oil
Step 1: Prepare the Rice
Wash and soak rice one cup for about half an hour or until water is fully absorbed.
Step 2: Grind the Rice
Grind soaked rice in a blender to form a paste. If it needs to be ground finer, grind again after adding water (to prevent it from sticking to the jar). Keep adding water and grinding until you get a paste.
Step 3: Strain the Oil
Strain the oil/paste through a muslin cloth to separate the rice paste from the oil because it will be very sticky and thick to handle. If you want, you can save the ground rice left in your strainer for other recipes or face packs. But make sure you store it in the fridge.
Step 4: Boil the Oil
If you want to boil oil, you can either add 1 tsp of mustard seeds to it or pop the mustard seeds yourself before adding the oil. Then, add enough water to cover the rice paste and oil thoroughly.
Step 5: Remove the Oil when it is ready
After boiling for about 10 minutes, turn off the heat source when you can press the paste or seeds without them slipping away from your fingers. Let the oil cool down to prevent any chemical reactions with its ingredients that may damage its beneficial properties. Then, squeeze out rice paste and strain the oil again.
Step 6: Store your Oil
Transfer the oil to a clean, dry glass bottle or jar. Apply daily on the scalp, massaging gently with fingertips. Leave it for an hour, then shampoo off. It is usually suggested that you use this rice hair oil treatment overnight, but avoid putting any oil in your eyes as it may cause stinging.
Step 7: Rinse off the Oil
After shampooing, don’t forget to wash out all traces of rice oil from your hair with a mild conditioner. You can also use this homemade anti-dandruff shampoo (with or without soda) to treat dandruff and relieve itchy scalp.
Step 8: Condition your Hair
A conditioner is a product you can use to make your hair softer, shinier, and easier to style. You can use a mild conditioner if you have fine, oily, or limp hair. This homemade conditioner is perfect for dry and damaged hair. Work a handful of conditioner through your wet hair and leave it on for a few minutes before rinsing it thoroughly to ensure no traces of oil are left in your hair.
Some Helpful Tips and Suggestions
1. When buying rice, get the regular long-grain white variety. No need to go for the more expensive organic kind or brown rice. The cooking process will ‘de-husk’ it and remove much of the bran, so your oil is not so dark in color.
2. The high temperatures in this process can make the oil smoke and smolder. Be sure to remove your pan from the heat before adding the rice, or you may get a big burst of smoke on your face.
3. Do not try this using margarine; they are mostly trans fats anyway, which are bad for you!
4. Rice oil can be used in place of other oils, such as sunflower or olive.
5. Rice oil is very nutritious and contains many beneficial phytochemicals and antioxidants: alpha-tocopherols, tocotrienols, polyphenols (aroma chemicals), squalene, etc.
6. If you are on a low-carbohydrate or paleo diet, use this rice oil instead of butter or olive oil for cooking your foods. It can withstand higher temperatures than olive oil, and it does not have the strong taste that coconut oil has.
Is There a Difference Between Organic Rice Oil and Regular Rice Oil?
You may have seen organic rice oil at the grocery store and wondered if you should use it instead of regular rice oil. There is no difference between the two types of oil, but there are a few reasons you might want to stick with organic rice. To begin with, many people say that they believe organic rice oil tastes better than regular rice oil because the soil from which organic rice is grown has been farmed without chemicals or fertilizers.
This may be true because organic rice oil has also been richer in antioxidants than regular rice oil. In addition, organic rice oil is made using traditional methods, without any chemicals or additives. You may decide to buy organic rice oil for health reasons as well. While both types of soybean oil are low in calories and high in healthy fats, organic rice oil is also free of gluten and other allergens. Organic rice oil may be the right choice if you suffer from any allergies.
Conclusion
If you are looking for a safer alternative to cooking oils, rice oil may be the answer. Rice is one of the most popular grains in India and China. It has been used as an ingredient in dishes that traditionally include animal fats or vegetable oils. Extracting rice oil can take anywhere from two to five days, depending on how much pressure is applied during processing, allowing for different degrees of refinement.
Once extracted, this type of healthy fat can be used just like any other edible oil without worrying about dangerous ingredients found in many commercial products available today. We hope this blog post on how to make rice oil has been helpful. If you have any questions or want to know more, then feel free to comment below!
