Jojoba
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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.