Echium oil is a complex triglyceride obtained by extracting the oil from Echium
Plantagineum. This oil has not hitherto been widely consumed in the European Community but recent research into its fatty acid composition have led to an interest in utilising Echium oil as an ingredient for dietary supplements and other nutritional products.
The production process employed to extract the oil from Echium Plantagineum is not novel; the same process is currently used to process several lipids with food approval status in the EU, such as Evening Primrose, Borage and Wheat Germ oil. It is, therefore,
considered that the production process employed will not have any detrimental effect on the suitability or safety of using Echium oil for human consumption purposes.
Echium oil contains many constituents that are common to plant-derived oils. Its component fatty acids include significant levels of Palmitic, Stearic, Oleic, Linoleic, Alpha-Linolenic, Gamma Linolenic and Stearidonic Acid. All of these fatty acids are found, in varying degrees, in either vegetable or fish oils currently consumed for food use in the EU. Oleic acid, for example, is found in Olive oil whilst Stearidonic Acid is
found in most fish oils.

By using echium in creams and not using harmful petroleum, there should be decrease in skin deseases for people using these creams.

An average women will absorb about 5kg a year of creams, with a healthy chunk of that dangerous chemicals