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Jojoba foliage provides year-round food for many animals, including deer, javelina, bighorn sheep, and livestock. Its seeds are eaten by squirrels, rabbits, other rodents, and larger birds. Only Bailey's pocket mouse, however, is known to be able to digest the wax found inside the jojoba seed. In large quantities, jojoba seed meal is toxic to ...
Simmondsin is a component of jojoba seeds (pronounced "ho-HO-bah") (Simmondsia chinensis).While it had been considered toxic due to jojoba seed meal causing weight loss in animals, in recent years its appetite suppressant effect has also been researched as a potential treatment for obesity. [1]
The terms "jojoba oil" and "jojoba wax" are often used interchangeably because the wax visually appears to be a mobile oil, but as a wax it is composed almost entirely (~97%) of mono-esters of long-chain fatty acids and alcohols (isopropyl jojobate), accompanied by only a tiny fraction of triglyceride esters. This composition accounts for its ...
The personal skin care market based on natural products has shown strong growth. [7] Clinical and laboratory studies have identified activities in many natural ingredients that have potential beneficial activities for personal skin care, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] but there is a shortage of convincing evidence for natural product efficacy in medical problems.
Jojoba (/ h ə ˈ h oʊ b ə / ⓘ; botanical name: Simmondsia chinensis) is an evergreen, dioecious shrub grown commercially in its area of origin and in other (semi-)arid regions. There are no pages or files in this category.
Jojoba esters are the hydrogenation or transesterification product of Jojoba oil. [1] Jojoba Esters are commonly used in cosmetic formulations as an emollient , due to its remarkable similarity to the natural oils produced by the human skin , and its high oxidative stability.
In the modern era, plant-based drugs have been isolated, purified and synthesised anew. Synthesis of drugs has led to novel drugs, including those that have not existed before in nature, particularly drugs based on known drugs which have been modified by chemical or biological processes.
Opiates are alkaloid compounds naturally found in the Papaver somniferum plant (opium poppy). The psychoactive compounds found in the opium plant include morphine, codeine, and thebaine. Opiates have long been used for a variety of medical conditions with evidence of opiate trade and use for pain relief as early as the eighth century AD.