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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 ...
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.
Also used in making soaps, hair oils and a variety of other products. [137] [138] Thistle oil, pressed from the seeds of Silybum marianum. [139] A good potential source of special fatty acids, carotenoids, tocopherols, phenol compounds and natural anti-oxidants, [140] as well as for generally improving the nutritional value of foods. [141]
The native Filipino products, like in wooden or rattan furniture and handicrafts, woven abaca or pinacloth, and other handmade or carved toy or trinket one usually finds in rural areas was made from indigenous raw materials. [4] Natural fibers from rattan, bamboo, nipa leaves, abaca and pina are commonly used for weaving. [5]
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.
Jojoba seed powder is a powder of the ground seeds of the jojoba, Simmondsia chenensis. It is commonly used in cosmetic formulations. References. External links
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.
Isopropyl jojobate is the isopropyl ester of the unfractionated saponification product of jojoba oil. It consists of a mixture of jojoba alcohols and the esters of isopropyl alcohol and jojoba acids. There are typically also unsaponified wax esters present in isopropyl jojobate.