HobaCare Jojoba Oil 250 ml

Our mantra is "less is better". We strongly encourage you to use our product a drop at a time until you're fully familiar with the way it works on your skin. In order to understand the significance of "less is better" place a small drop of HobaCare Jojoba or Jojoba Baby on the back of your hand. Massage it in vigorously. Notice that the jojoba spreads easily and absorbs readily. You want the product to absorb because that's how it works best—by softening and conditioning the skin.

Nature of the Plant

Mature jojoba plants (Simmondsia chinensis) are woody perennial bushes native to the Sonoran (or Gila) Desert of Arizona, Northern Mexico and arid California. Jojoba does not shed its leaves with the changes in seasons.

The jojoba plant is dioecious. The gender of jojoba plants can only be discerned from their flowers. When planted from seeds, jojoba plants can take up to three years to produce flowers.

The female plants produce seed from flowers the male plants pollinate. Jojoba leaves have an aerodynamic shape, creating a spiral effect, which brings wind-born pollen from the male flower to the female flower. On North American farms and in Israel, pollination usually occurs during the months of February and March. In Argentina, Peru, and Australia, pollination occurs during the Southern Hemisphere's spring in August and September.

The pollinated female flower becomes a hardened capsule, which contains one or more developing seeds. As the growing seed fills the capsule, the capsule wall becomes progressively thinner until the sun dries it. The sun-dried capsule ultimately splits open, and the matured seed drops to the ground.