First plant opens to produce cannabis-based cosmetic products

With 90% of the spaces built with recyclable or reusable materials, and equipped with state-of-the-art machinery, which allows the production of different products at an industrial level such as oils, ointments, shampoos and soaps, the Ecuadorian Association AYA Natural Products inaugurated its new plant to produce medicinal cannabis-based products.

In this way the company, whose plant is located in the Tumbaco sector (near Quito), becomes a pioneer in the country in using the cosmetic values ​​of cannabis to offer consumers natural products.

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During the inauguration of the plant was the Deputy Minister of Production and Industries, Carla Muirragui; the general director of the National Institute of Popular and Solidarity Economy, Ximena Sempértegui; and the executive director of Procosméticos Ecuador, María Fernanda León.

“We still have a lot of work to do as a society to demystify what is behind it,” said Muirragui, who highlighted the participation that the association will have in cosmoprof 2022, the most important fair of cosmetics worldwide to be held in Bologna (Italy).

For his part, Sempértegui expressed the support of the National Institute of Popular and Solidarity Economy for the association and highlighted the importance of this type of economy for the development of Ecuador.

The legalization of the planting, cultivation and harvesting of cannabis in Ecuador came into force

Meanwhile, María Fernanda León indicated that “the cosmetic sector has enormous potential, not only in Ecuador but in the world” and highlighted AYA’s innovation in the use of Amazonian and Andean knowledge to create great products.

Andres Cisneros, general manager of AYA, he thanked the support received by the members of the association and the Emprende Fund; and the effort to build the new space optimizing materials in the construction process and the use of recycled components. (I)