This oil with a neutral flavour and tartish taste is rich in essential fatty acids, therefore valuable both for the pharmaceutical industry and healthy nutrition. The leaves of the industrial hemp contain carotene, calcium malate, the bitter fatty oil extracted from the seeds is rich in lecithin, cholesterol and wax. Hemp oil is also beneficial in treatment of skin diseases, such as freckles, exanthema, prurigo, etc. Hemp seeds contain significant amounts of niacin, an important component of the B-vitamin complex, playing an active role in the function mechanism of the nervous system, maintenance of the healthy tissues of skin, tongue and digestive tract, as well as synthesis of the sexual hormones. Given that essential fatty acids play a primary role in maintaining the youth of skin and other tissues, hempseed oil will prevent drying out and chapping, scaliness of the skin, therefore it is useful in cosmetic preparations, too.