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Jojoba is a shrub which grows in Arizona and adjacent parts of Mexico and is grown for the liquid wax (commonly called oil) in its seeds, which is similar to sebum[?], does not go rancid, and is therefore used in cosmetics as a moisturizer and to dilute essential oils[?]. Jojoba does not come from China; the botanist who named the species mixed up jojoba seeds with seeds of a Chinese plant.
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