At all times people use essential oils to rejuvenate the skin.Also called incense, they have a unique, lingering smell and pungent taste.
Essential oils are obtained from essential oil plants by extracting strong-smelling volatile substances from their tiny glands.
They have a strong healing effect on humans and have a positive effect on health, allowing you to gain strength and rejuvenate the skin.
As you get older, your choice of scents becomes more sophisticated;After 45 years, women more often prefer sweet and bright floral aromas, which, like woody and spicy aromas, 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 and lotions serve as a basis.
The following oils are suitable as a base or basis: wheat germ, primrose, jojoba and avocado oil, cedar and walnut oil, coconut, mango and cocoa oil, pistachio and peach kernel oil, argan and borage oil, apricot and grape seed oil.To rejuvenate your skin, you can take:
- 3 drops each of ylang-ylang, vetiver and benzoin oil;
- or 5 drops each of frankincense, sandalwood and carrot seed oil;
- 3 drops each of neroli and myrrh oil.
Pure oil blends can only be used on normal to dry skin, while prepared creams are more suitable for oily skin.However, it is not recommended to add essential oils to store-bought cosmetics!
In addition, when preparing mixtures and creams, as well as fatty oils, it is recommended to take not just one, but several: 2-4 oils.
Regular care is necessary for every skin.And if you incorporate frankincense into your daily skincare routine, it can become a treat.
Taking into account the 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 a drop), rose, neroli, chamomile.Or make this composition 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, bergamot, 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.The following compositional solutions can be created from this:
- 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 oil, 5 grams of emulsifier, soy lecithin is suitable.
Stir, heat in a water bath to 60 degrees, add 70 ml of warm water and stir well.The mixture will become like milk.After the mixture has cooled to 40 degrees, essential oils are added.
In order for the prepared cream to last longer, it is necessary to add a preservative to it in the same place as aromatic oils, which is also available in specialized stores;Be careful, the preservative must be paraben-free.
You can use Citrosept from the pharmacy or grapefruit seed extract as a preservative, then your prepared cream will last for almost a month in the refrigerator.
From the resulting cream, you can make a rejuvenating scrub by adding olives, ground apricot kernels or bamboo powder.But don't forget to reduce the concentration of the oils or not add them to the scrub at all.The composition of fatty oils can be changed at will.
A few tips: When exposed to sunlight, citrus essential oils can cause photodermatosis or pigmentation rashes.Therefore, try not to go outside for two hours after applying the cream to your skin.
Rose water is considered the best tonic for aging skin and is used to wipe the skin after washing before applying the cream.
Essential oils for skin rejuvenation are applied to the face, neck and décolleté every evening.Cosmetics made from natural ingredients have a beneficial effect on the skin, even out tone and complexion and give it radiance, activate metabolic processes, cleanse and rejuvenate.