Jojocare's photo gallery is a service for media and students. It contains photographs of Australian jojoba plantations, jojoba beans, jojoba harvesting, producers, processing and marketing activities. Just click on the relevant link to download a high resolution image then copy and paste the adjacent caption.
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Jojoba plants were introduced into Australia by the CSIRO in 1978. Over a decade varietes were selected and acclimatised in trials across the country. Over the past decade producers in inland regions of five States have established large commercial plantations. In 2006 these plantings entered a yield increase phase that will now continue through to 2015. Jojoba shrubs can live for more than 200 years and they are drought resistant.
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Jojoba producers share information through the Australian Jojoba Industry Newsletter, regular meetings and field days. They discuss plant breeding developments, crop management, harvesting and marketing. Australia's jojoba producers own and control their national brand jojocare and their products from their plantations to the pack in your hand. Photo taken at Forbes in NSW.
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Allan Wensing of "Penally" Narrandera in the Riverina region of NSW in his 50 hectare jojoba plantation. Although jojoba does not reach full production until year eleven Allan is receiving a return on investment in year six. He says jojoba is unbeatable on the basis of return per megalitre and it is a remarkably interesting low key crop to grow.
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Female jojoba shrubs flowering at Narrandera NSW. Each fertilised flower forms a pod. A bean similar in appearance to a coffee bean forms inside the pod. As these plants enter their sixth year in drought they are thriving and producing an increasing crop yield each year.
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The female flower forms as a protective pod and a bean forms inside each pod. Insects, wildlife and livestock do not attack the beans and jojoba has no diseases so chemicals are not applied to the crop. When the beans reach maturity the pod splits and the bean falls to the ground. There is no cultivation of jojoba plantations so fossil fuels are not burned maintaining the plants. Photo taken at Forbes in NSW.
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Jojoba beans form in a protective pod on the plant. When the bean is mature the pod splits and the bean falls to the ground. Natural antioxidants in the bean make the beans non perishable. They lay under the skirt of the shrub and dry naturally awaiting harvest. This plantation is at Forbes in NSW.
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When fully mature, jojoba beans simply fall to the ground. Beans dry naturally under the skirt of the shrubs. Twice each year producers drive mechanical sweeper or suction harvesters through the plantation to collect the beans. This plantation is at Forbes in NSW.
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Jojoba producer Allan Wensing of "Penally" Narrandera came out of cotton growing and searched for eighteen months for a crop that had the potentrial to make money. He took a gamble on jojoba and now in his sixth year Allan is pleased to see his leap of faith starting to pay off.
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Allan Wensing of Penally near Narrandera in NSW believes his jojoba plantation will provide him with a future buffer against the hotter and drier conditions predicted.
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Allan Wensing a jojoba producer from Narrandera seated on the jojoba suction harvester he developed. Allan is confident his decision several years ago to plant jojoba was sound. Back then he could not know of the onset of prolonged drought and the move towards global warming. His decision was based on the potential for better returns than alternative crops for less inputs.
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Harvested beans from across Australia are taken to Forbes in NSW where the crop is mechanically graded and cleaned to remove any plant material, stones and soil.
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50% of the mass of the jojoba bean is a luxurious golden liquid wax. The beans are cold pressed to release the golden wax. Golden jojoba remarkably has similar molecular structure to the wax esters in human skin sebum. Jojoba on skin mixes instantly with skin sebum and chases its pathways to cell and skin matrix level. It cleans and moisturises as it goes.
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The dry material left after the golden liquid jojoba wax is pressed from the bean is called jojoba meal. It is used by beautitians and manufacturers as a body scrub, a facial scrub and an ingredient in herbal soaps. This means that 100% of the jojoba bean has a valuable end use in health, beauty and wellness markets here and overseas.
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Australia is the only jojoba producing country in the world to market its production under a national brand. The jojocare brand was launched at the Sydney International Beauty Expo at Darling Harbour in August 2007. Australian jojoba is sold in large drums to manufacturers of essential oil blends, cosmetics, skin and hair care products, and large massage practices. Small packs for massage practitioners and personal care use range from 1 litre to 15ml.
Beauty student Maggie Senethep and Chris Black, Marketing and Communication Manager for the grower owned marketing company Jojoba Australia Pty Ltd, discuss the benefits of golden jojoba during the expo.
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Jojoba producer Daniel Buster of Bourke NSW puts Australian jojoba in the spotlight for the first time at the Sydney International Beauty Expo at Darling Harbour in August. Sales of branded small packs of jojoba here and overseas have lifted the spirits of jojoba producers across five States.
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Tianna Ceracchi 17 of Renmark SA is a trainee hairdresser who aims to become a Beauty student when she finishes her apprenticeship. Tiana is a good example of the generation that will drive the future development of the jojoba industry in Australia.
"I have been using jojoba since January this year and I love it. I use it in my bath, after a shower and on my friends and family for shaving and after waxing. It is soothing and it conditions and moisturises skin and hair like nothing I have used. What led me to it was a search for skincare products that were pure, natural and Australian. With jojoba I have found it all in one and I am discovering more and more uses for it all of the time."
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Chris Black Marketing and Communication Manager for Jojoba Australia and Sehoon Yoo Managing Director of Aromalab Korea confirm an exclusive distribution agreement for Australia's Jojocare national brand of Australian grown jojoba.
The Jojocare branded pack range launched at the Australian Beauty Expo in Sydney during August will now be marketed by Aromalab online and through its networks to the Aromatherapy, massage, beauty training and personal care sectors in that rapidly growing market.
Sehoon Yoo believes the Australian origin of the products and the knowledge that Jojocare branded Australian golden jojoba is owned and controlled by Australian jojoba producers from their inland plantations to the end user has strong appeal for Korean consumers.
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The Australian jojoba industry, and the Australian jojocare and Pro Bio brands were launched to the huge Asian market on 17 November 2007 at Cosmoprof Asia in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition centre. Left to right. Jojocare China distributor Maru Chou, Jojocare Asia distributor John Lee and Jojoba Australia Marketing and Communication Manager Chris Black celebrate the introduction of Jojocare to Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore and Indonesia during the exhibition.
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COSMOPROF 2007 presentation (48 K pdf)
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