OCCURRENCE OF LIPOPHILIC MICELLAE FORMED BY FATTY ALCOHOLS AND FATTY-ACID SODIUM SALTS IN JOJOBA-WAX AQUEOUS HYDROLYZATE

Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis [Link] Schneider, Buxaceae) is cultivated in certain warm countries for obtaining its seed oil comprising 45–60 % of dry wt. The difference between jojoba oil and all other plant lipids is that this oil is not a triglyceride but a wax ester between very-long-chain fatty acids and higher fatty alcohols without the intervention of glycerol. This wa