PracaxiPracaxi ,Paracaxi , Pracachi , have you heard of this fruit ?Some largecompanies already uses in some of their cosmetic products . check this news "http://amazonia.org.br/2012/11/lor % C3 % A9al - expands - search - of - inputs- of - flora - Brazilian / " .I know thisspecimen since the time of my grandmother, in my childhood , in the Amazonforest . She removed the oil to apply in erysipelas , technical name ,streptococcal lymphangitis , wounds caused by the Arrias (flat fish) stings andpoisonous critters, in pregnant women to prevent stretch marks , a true miracle . Thepracaxizeiro , Pentaclethra filamentous , already mentioned in the novel "Land of Icamiaba " by Abguar Bastos , 1934 Scythian the specimen asfollows: . " Chameleon only fight near a pracaxizeiro Because the bark ofthe tree , chewed by animals , is a miracle that dries wounds , dating back tostrength, dexterity and blows immortalizes the animal at incredibleinvulnerability , which always wins . " This specimen existed in largequantities across the mouth of the Amazon river, however is an impressivespecimen. Wood does not need to burn dry, excellent for boilers , this meantthat the specimen was almost extinct in the mouths of the rivers that composethe bays that form the mouth of the Amazon River and part of Guajarina zoneAnother blow was the intensification of planting acai earlier this century.Created a legend that the pracaxizeiro " took the power of the acai berry" , Euterpe oleracea , and should be sacrificed for the acaizeiro producedquickly , however experience has shown that the practice of leaving only acaipalms on the floodplain was a big nonsense . With successful experiences inassociation with specimens acai some associations and cooperatives beganplanting native specimens of the floodplain. The Correntao in Igarape Miri - PA. Cooperative, with the help of UFPA built a vivarium to repopulate areas offloodplain with native specimens that had been sacrificed, practices thatincreased the productivity of plantations of acai. The consequence of the lackof knowledge about the specimen, resulted in the decrease of specimens, madetoday hard to find large amounts of pracaxizeiros, we can only find them indistant places with difficult access.The use incosmetics and drugs can be an alternative to prevent the extinction of thisspecimen, besides generating income for forest people, and currency for Brazil.I think however that large cosmetic industries use oil and extract of pracaxi ina timid way. Today there are already published works on the specimen by someuniversities , work characterization of oil that generate internationalpublications such as , " Characterization of Pentaclethra macroloba oil" authors Marina Nidia Ferreira dos Santos Costa , Marcos Antonio MunizPena , Charles Alberto Brito negrao , Emmerson Carlos Ferreira da Costa , andothers, from the Federal University of Para, but I do not know any work thatlead to conclusive results of the traditional properties of this oil . This oil,today applied to hair products such as shampoos, conditioners and hair masks,has been doing a great success; however it is an attitude of small cosmetic manufacturers,coming daring and developing formulations that are widely accepted by users.The