Jojoba Oil - Updated - Not just for hippies anymore.

One of my fellow Estheticians recommended that I start looking at Jojoba Oil as an essential part of my facial protocol. She gave me all of the stats on it and touted its healing properties.  "Ugh, I responded, that hippy stuff?"  All I could think about was my childhood, the smell of patchouli, drinking Kefir and waiting for dinner from a yogurt maker. Yes, a yogurt maker. Will discuss later...

Jojoba Oil, I just don’t like the way it sounds. Actually just the word "oil”, I guess. I just realized that. Who knew that this blog would flash me back?  Anyway, I begrudgingly started using it and found some real test information on it. It’s amazing and odorless. Anyone who suffers from dry skin, or aging skin might want to give it a try. It's fairly inexpensive (invest in Organic - Whole Foods sells this for less than $20).

In dermatological tests done, using jojoba oil, by Christensen and Packman, it was shown that jojoba oil increases the skin's suppleness by 45% and after 8 hours the effect was still present. It was also found that jojoba oil softens and smoothes the skin with fine line reduction. In one test 20 women's skin compliance increased with 37% after 30 minutes and remained for an hour. Continued use of jojoba oil results in reducing superficial facial lines.

Reduction of such lines was 26%, 18% and 11% after 1, 4 and 8 hours in conducted tests. Jojoba oil was also tested for hypoallergenic reactions. Two out of 50 people with known allergic skin types showed reactions to Jojoba. This reaction on the inherently hyper-allergic skins cleared completely after 24 hours. Tests at Michigan University showed that five of the most common skin bacteria plus certain skin fungi couldn't survive in jojoba oil. Professor Zille of Port Elizabeth University carried out studies on the anti-bacterial effects of jojoba oil and the results were presented at a Coshem Congress held in Mintek, which found that jojoba oil destroys the bacteria staphylococcus and pseudomonas within 1 hour and 15 minutes. Studies on jojoba oil at the Ben Gurion University in Israel have shown that jojoba oil relieves the symptoms of psoriases.