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I get often asked about skin care with essential oils. I wrote an article about it less than one year ago. In the vlog I go through quickly different skin types. From the article you can check the oils again, if they go too fast.
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I made today a vlog about skin care with essential oils. I go through different essential oils for different skin types (ageing and dry skin) and especially oily skin. I mention in the video a vlog, where I talk about how important it is to use pure essential oils. I made an article about this same topic, where I list all the oils that I talk about in this video and how to use them.
Do you want to try essential oils?
Do you want to buy essential oils?
Essential oils can balance, cleanse and renew your skin. It’s very important to check the quality of the essential oil brand you are using. Even if the label says 100% pure essential oil, unfortunately it doesn’t mean anything. Companies mix synthetic chemicals and other ingredients in them. There is no real regulation in the industry, other than what the companies do themselves. (I have a vlog about this)
You can improve the health of your skin tissue with good quality essential oils especially in your face and hands. You should dilute always your essential oils (except lavender and tea tree oil you can use directly in special circumstances) with jojoba, coconut or some other vegetable oil or with basic lotion without sent in it.
Here are tips for using essential oils for skin care:
Problems with skin
Allergens may cause problems with the skin. Inflammation on the skin that is caused by allergens is called eczema. There are different kinds of eczema. The cause of the eczema is not always found, but often it can be helped. Aromatherapy can help different kinds of eczemas.
Essential oils that help with eczema
Roman chamomile helps with infections on the skin. Geranium and lavender oil speeds up the renewal of the skin cells. Lavender and sandal wood oils help also to soften the skin. Teatree and juniper berry oils are also antiseptic.
Soothing cold press:
Add to cold water:
You can also add those oils to coconut/ olive oil or to unsented lotion.
Dry skin with inflammation:
Add 5 tea-spoon to cold pressed vegetable oil:
Bath oil:
Add them to six table-spoon of jojoba oil. Add two table spoons to your bath water.
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My videos about essential oils
In this weeks blog, I’ll be talking about my favourite oils in skin care: Lavender and Frankincense.
Are you ready for the world of essential oils?
Essential oils can improve the condition of your skin and help you in your skin problems. Skin is the largest organ in human body and absorbs essential oils very effectively. If your body doesn’t agree with a particular essential oil, you can probably see it first from your skin. In this case you should choose a different oil from another plant.
Oily skin and acne
When your sebaceous glands are over activated, your skin gets oily. When you add unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, hormonal problems and stress, your skin can get even worse. Skin problems can also be caused by puberty, pregnancy, menopause and menstruation. You can put a drop of T-tree, camomile or lavender oil straight on your pimples. You can also mix two drops of essential oils on your bath water or put two drops of lavender to your steamer to release stress. Roman camomile helps also to the inflammation of acne. Lemon is antiseptic. Basil, grapefruit and lemon grass help to clear the skin. You can dilute two drops of them and use regularly on your face or back.
Dry and mixed skin
The dryness of your skin maybe caused by your sebaceous glands not being active enough, but also outer factors like: coldness, wind and sun. Dry skin gets flaky easily and also ages quicker than oily skin. Mixed skin is very common and the most common skin type among Finns. Having mixed skin means that the skin on your nose, jaw and fore head gets oily, but cheeks maybe still be dry. Dry skin absorbs oils very quickly. It’s good idea to add two drops of essential oils to your face cream or carrier oil like coconut oil or jojoba oil. It helps also to put two drops to your bath water. Good essential oils to dry skin are: Rose, sandal wood (moisturising), lavender, jasmine and camomile. T-tree oil is good for flaky skin. Good essential oils for balancing mixed skin are: Geranium and ylang-ylang.
How to use essential oils 