Botanical Cuticle Treatment Oil

JOJOBA SEED OIL

Jojoba is a perennial, evergreen, dioecious, wind-pollinated shrub, reaching a height of 1-5 meters and having a long life span (100-200 years). It is endemic to the Sonoran desert (south west Arizona and California, Northern Mexico and Baja California).

Jojoba is grown for the liquid wax (commonly called jojoba oil) in its seeds. This oil is rare in that it is an extremely long (C36-C46) straight-chain wax ester and not a triglyceride, making jojoba and its derivative jojoba esters more similar to human sebum and whale oil than to traditional vegetable oils.

Because sperm whales are endangered, plantations of jojoba have been established in a number of desert and semi-desert areas, predominantly in Argentina, Israel, Mexico, Palestinian Authority, Peru and the United States. It is currently the Sonoran Desert’s second most economically valuable native plant

Originated in Iran / Afghan region then spread around the Mediterranean. The main producers today are Spain and California.
Can date the use back to the 1800’s. The seeds were used to make emulsions. Also used in food because of its high nutritional value.
The oil is extracted from the seed.
Because of its glyco-protein structure it softens and repairs sensitive skin and reinforces against cold, wind, heat and pollution.

The high content of palmitoleic acid also makes macadamia nut oil an effective anti-oxidant.

It is suitable for all skin types but is particularly good for dry or mature skin because of its high percentage of palmitoleic acid. The palmitoleic acid protects the skin just like human sebum does.

It penetrates and hydrates the skin quickly making it an ideal ingredient in lotions, creams, balms, massage oils and bath oils.

Tea tree (ti-tree) oil is distilled from the needle like leaves of the Malaleuca alternifolia tree, which is native to Australia. The leaves were first shown to Captain Cook, his seamen and the settlers in 1700's by the Bunedjalong tribe. The "tea tree" name came from the seamen finding the leaves made a very refreshing drink. The tribesmen also taught the early settlers about the healing properties of the leaves.

In the 1930's much research was done on the leaves and their oil and one of the major benefits found was the power of clearing pus from wounds and speeding up healing time and was found to be 100 times more powerful than carbolic acid and yet safe to use directly on the skin.

Safe for external use tea tree oil has antiseptic, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antiparasitic, and antiviral activity on the skin and recently has even been found to be effective against the antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Perfect for damaged and stressed tissues, possessing regenerative and restructuring qualities, which allow a better control of skin moisturisation.
It is noted to be especially effective for repair of delicate and fine skin areas.
Used as an all-over skin moisturiser, grape seed oil is known to reduce the look of stretch marks.
Most grape seed oil is produced in Italy, with other producing nations including France, Spain and Argentina.
Grape seed extract is 20 times more potent than Vitamin C and 50 times stronger than Vitamin E, and Vitamin B.

Castor seeds have been found in Egyptian tombs dating back to 4000 BC. Herodotus and other Greek travelers have noted the use of castor seed oil for lightening and body anointments. The use of castor seed oil in India has been documented since 2000 BC for use in lamps and in local medicine as a laxative, purgative, and cathartic in Unani, Ayurvedic and other ethnomedical systems. Castor seed and urin have also been used in China for centuries, mainly prescribed in local medicine for internal use or use in dressings.

The common name, Palm of Christ, derives from castor oil's ability to heal wounds and cure ailments.

The seeds, seed oil, leaves and the roots of eranda have great medicinal value. The plant is equally useful, both internally as well as externally. Externally, eranda is effectively used in the diseases of vata associated with pain and swellings. For this purpose, the seed oil massage or fomentation with its hot leaves relieves the symptoms in the diseases like arthritis, sciatica, rheumatism, gout, mastitis and skin diseases. The massage with eranda oil purifies the breast milk in mothers.