All the time, people use essential oils to rejuvenate their skin;they are also called incense, which have unique persistent odors and a pungent flavor.
Essential oils are obtained from oil plants by extracting strong-smelling volatile substances from their tiny glands.
They have a powerful healing effect on a person, influencing health, thanks to which you can gain vigor and rejuvenate the skin.
The choice of fragrances becomes more sophisticated with age;after 45 years, women more often prefer sweet and bright floral aromas, which, like woody and spicy ones, effectively rejuvenate the human body and, of course, the skin.Aromatic baths are made with essential oils for health and beauty.
Essential oils for skin rejuvenation
The best anti-aging essential oils for skin are: sandalwood and neroli, frankincense and rose, fennel and grapefruit, myrrh and lime, geranium and cedar, lime and jasmine, patchouli and vetiver, lemon and turmeric, lavender and rosemary, sage and nutmeg, rosewood and petitgrain.
It is recommended to take not one oil, but several, for example 5-6.Essential oils must be added to the base.Neutral fatty oils, creams, lotions are used as a base.
For the base or base, the following oils are suitable: wheat germ, primrose, jojoba and avocado, cedar and walnut, coconut, mango and cocoa, pistachio and peach seed, argan and borage, apricot and grape seed oils.To rejuvenate your skin you can take:
- 3 drops each of ylang-ylang, vetiver, benzoin oils;
- or 5 drops each of frankincense, sandalwood, and carrot seed oils;
- 3 drops each of neroli and myrrh oils.
Pure oil blends can only be used for normal to dry skin, while prepared creams are best suited for oily skin.But it is not recommended to add essential oils to ready-made cosmetics bought in the store!
When preparing mixtures and creams, fatty oils, it is also recommended to take not one, but several: 2-4 oils.
For any leather, regular care is necessary.And if you include frankincense in your daily skincare routine, it can turn it into a treat.
Taking into account skin types, a selection of the use of essential oils for skin care was made, based on the recommendations of generally recognized experts in the field of cosmetology and aromatherapy: D. Redford, V. Stix.
Essential oils for normal skin
Jasmine, orange, geranium, lavender, ylang-ylang, lemon (no more than one drop), rose, neroli, chamomile.Or create this compositional combination:
- 5 drops each of lavender and geranium oil, 2 drops of neroli oil, 3 drops of orange, 1 ylang-ylang;
- 2 jasmine oils, 5 drops of chamomile, 1 rose and 3 drops each of sandalwood and lavender.
Essential oils for oily skin:
Ylang-ylang, verbena, bergamond, lavender, lemongrass, camphor, rosemary, petitgrain, thyme.Or such compositional combinations:
- five drops of bergamot, three drops each of petitgrain and verbena, two drops each of ylang-ylang and thyme;
- five drops each of lavender, rosemary and lemongrass and two drops each of myrtle and thyme.
For dry skin:
Essential oils: lavender, rosewood, chamomile, palmarosa, vetiver, ylang-ylang, benzoin, neroli.From them the following compositional solutions can be obtained:
- three drops each of vetiver, benzoin, ylang-ylang, rosewood and five drops of palmarosa;
- or five drops of chamomile essential oil, two drops each of ylang-ylang and neroli, three drops of lavender.
- another compositional combination: geranium, chamomile, petitgrain.
For sensitive skin:
Essential oils of lavender, hyssop, lemon balm, chamomile, rosemary, yarrow, sandalwood.And such compositional combinations of these oils:
- five drops each of chamomile, yarrow, lemon balm, three drops of rosemary;
- five drops each of chamomile, sandalwood, lavender and two drops of hyssop.
How to make an anti-aging face cream
Ingredients: 5 ml each of jojoba, coconut and wheat germ oils, 5 grams of emulsifier, soy lecithin is suitable.
Mix, heat in a bain-marie to 60 degrees, add 70 ml of warm water and beat well.The mixture becomes like milk.After the mixture has cooled to 40 degrees, essential oils are added.
In order for the prepared cream to be stored longer, it is necessary to add a preservative to it, which is also purchased in special stores, in the same place as aromatic oils;Be careful, the preservative must be paraben-free.
As a preservative you can use citrosept, purchased at the pharmacy, or grapefruit seed extract, then the prepared cream will be stored in the refrigerator for almost a month.
Based on the resulting cream, you can make a regenerating scrub by adding olives, or ground apricot kernels or bamboo powder.Just don't forget to reduce the concentration of oils or not include them in the scrub at all.The composition of fatty oils can be changed at your discretion, as you like.
Some tips: if exposed to the sun, citrus essential oils can cause photodermatosis or pigmented skin rashes, so after applying the cream to your skin, try not to go outside for two hours.
The best tonic for aging skin is considered to be rose water, which is used to cleanse the skin after washing, before applying the cream.
Essential oils for skin rejuvenation are applied every evening to the face, neck and décolleté.Cosmetics based on natural ingredients have a beneficial effect on the skin, even out tone and complexion and give brightness, activate metabolic processes, cleanse and rejuvenate.