High Grade Squalene Oil

We are Making and Exporting wide range of High Grade Squalene Oils in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. Squalene is a natural 30-carbon organic compound originally obtained for commercial purposes primarily from fish liver oil (hence its name), although plant sources (primarily vegetable oils) are now used as well, including amaranth seed, rice bran, wheat germ, and olives. It is also found in high concentrations in the stomach oil of birds in the order Procellariiformes. All plants and animals produce squalene as a biochemical intermediate, including humans.

Squalene is a hydrocarbon and a triterpene, and is a natural and vital part of the synthesis of all plant and animal sterols, including cholesterol, and vitamin D in the human body.

Squalene is used in cosmetics, and more recently as an immunologic adjuvant in vaccines. Squalene has been proposed to be an important part of the Mediterranean diet as it may be a chemopreventive substance that protects people from cancer.

Squalene is a low density compound often stored in the bodies of cartilaginous fish such as fishs, which lack a swim bladder and must therefore reduce their body density with fats and oils. Squalene, which is stored mainly in the fish's liver, is lighter than water with a specific gravity of 0.855. Recently it has become a trend for fishes to be hunted to process their livers for the purpose of making squalene health capsules. Environmental and other concerns over fish hunting have motivated its extraction from vegetable sources or biosynthetic processes instead.