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Natural skin care uses topical creams and lotions made of ingredients available in nature. [1] Much of the recent literature reviews plant-derived ingredients, which may include herbs, roots, flowers and essential oils, [2] [3] [4] but natural substances in skin care products include animal-derived products such as beeswax, and minerals.
The ban on importing whale oil to the U.S. in 1971 led to the discovery that jojoba oil is "in many regards superior to sperm whale oil for applications in the cosmetics and other industries". [2] Jojoba oil is found as an additive in many cosmetic products, especially those marketed as being made from natural ingredients.
Used in Brazil as a cosmetic product and a major source of biodiesel. [166] Jatropha oil, widely used in India as a fuel oil. Has attracted strong proponents for use as a biofuel. [167] [168] Jojoba oil, from the Simmondsia chinensis, a desert shrub. [169] Milk bush, popularized by chemist Melvin Calvin in the 1950s.
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 ...
Hydrogenated jojoba oil is a hard, crystalline wax ester. The melting point is 68-70 °C and the iodine value is < 2.0, making it one of the very few commercially available, high-melting-point wax esters of botanical origin. Hydrogenated jojoba oil is relatively colourless and odourless. Hydrogenated jojoba oil contains no trans isomers.
Nutri-Asia, Inc. (doing business as NutriAsia), formerly Enriton Natural Foods, Inc. and its predecessors Southeast Asia Food, Inc. and UFC Philippines, Inc., is a Philippine privately held multinational food processing company headquartered in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila.
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.
Nature Republic opened its first store in March 2009. Stores were opened outside of South Korea in Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia in 2011. [2]In 2011, Nature Republic opened its first store in Cambodia [3] and launched its first store in the Philippines on November 13, 2012.