Hair growth promoting effect of Zizyphus jujuba essential oil.

Food Chem Toxicol. 2010 Mar 2.
Hair growth promoting effect of Zizyphus jujuba essential oil.

Yoon JI, Al-Reza SM, Kang SC.

Department of Biotechnology, College of Engineering, Daegu University, Kyoungsan, Kyoungbook 712-714, Republic of Korea.

This study was undertaken to examine the efficacy of essential oil from seeds of Zizyphus jujuba for its potential role on hair growth by in vivo method. Essential oil was applied at different concentrations (0.1, 1 and 10%) over the shaved skin onto the backs of BALB/c mice and monitored for 21 days. After 21 days, mice treated with 1 and 10% of oil produced a greater effect on the length of hair which were measured to be 9.96 and 10.02 mm, respectively, as compared to the control (8.94 mm). We measured the weight of hair/cm(2) area of dorsal skin and also evaluated hair thickness and hair follicles microscopically after plucking the hair immediately from the shaved area of mice and found the best results for 1% of essential oil treated mice. From this study, it is concluded that Z. jujuba essential oil possesses hair growth promoting activity.

Food Chem Toxicol. 2010 Feb;48(2):639-43.
Anti-inflammatory activity of seed essential oil from Zizyphus jujuba.

Al-Reza SM, Yoon JI, Kim HJ, Kim JS, Kang SC.

Department of Biotechnology, Daegu University, Kyoungsan, Kyoungbook 712-714, Republic of Korea.

This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of essential oil from seeds of Zizyphus jujuba on TPA-induced skin inflammation in experimental mice. Exposure of TPA on the ear of the BALB/c mice caused a marked increase in both ear thickness and skin water content. The ear thickness was measured for TPA-induced ear was 0.54 mm, as compared to control (0.23 mm). Treatment with 1% and 10% of essential oil caused significant decrease in ear thicknesses which were measured to be 0.30 and 0.35 mm, as well as reduce the water content about 51% and 53% in the TPA-induced skin inflammation model, respectively. Furthermore, histological analysis clearly confirmed that Z. jujuba essential oil inhibited the inflammatory responses of skin inflammation in animal model. Therefore, our findings demonstrate that the essential oil of Z. jujuba seeds might accelerate the development of new drugs for various inflammatory diseases.

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11 dollars plus $25 shipping for 30 ml must be a cheaper source somewhere.I cant find the essential oil anywhere.I would like to add this to a topical at 1% any ideas where i can find it?

problem is everything growth hair in mice.. they should have used humans...

tao81 - Agreed, this is only preliminary, whether it works in humans is still unknown.

CS- yea too bad, that stuff causing mice to regrwoth hair, don´t work in humans most the time...but intersting find however