Essential oils provide all the active ingredients you might ever need to formulate incredible skin care recipes at home. Whether for anti-aging, wrinkle reduction, aging prevention, scar reduction, moisturizing or acne care, there’s an essential oil for your skin.
Everlasting essential oil, also known as Helichrysum, is an exceptional oil for almost every purpose. Because it has inflammation reducing and regenerative actions, there is even one skin care line that uses it as the single active ingredient in Europe.
Mixed with a carrier oil like rosehip seed, helichrysum can be effective enough to heal recent wounds itself. Sometimes, lavender essential oil is added to the recipe, due to its tissue regenerative and anti-inflammatory properties and calming aroma. Those who do not want to make their own skin care products using this essential oil can purchase several pre-made products from Young Living essential oils, including roll-ons and sprays.
Calendula oil has always been utilized as an infused oil, and with the arrival of new distilling techniques, it is available nowadays as an essential oil. Much research backs calendula as a wound curing agent, antiseptic, antioxidant, and inflammation reducer. Virtually any skin care formula is made more beneficial with a three percent addition of this oil.
A scar that is old can be treated using sage oil, which breaks down the tough skin that results from wound healing. This oil promotes circulation and has natural regenerative features. At the same time, the regenerative molecules can be hazardous in large amounts, so it is suggested you only use it for as long as necessary. Another of the pure essential oils effective for treating scars is rosemary, which stimulates cellular metabolism and has regenerative ketone molecules that help form new skin.
One of the newer therapeutic essential oils used in skincare is sea buckthorn. Information regarding this product is not included in older medical aromatherapy guides but it is a great skin healer. It has many compounds that mimic vitamin A for healing and regenerative purposes. Sea buckthorn should be used at one percent concentration and though it has a deep red color due to its carotenoids, this will quickly be absorbed by the skin. The sweet aroma of sea buckthorn makes it appealing to the senses and this oil is used in nearly every aromatherapy skin care recipe.
When creating your own formula, choose one to three essential oils, and add them to your base oils at a one percent concentration each. Base, or carrier oils, are oils cold-pressed from seeds and nuts. Popular examples are jojoba and apricot kernel oils. Should you find this too intense, simply add more carrier oils to increase the dilution. The effect of the essential oils and the carrier oils will synergize, and produce a truly effective skin care product.
Essential oils such as Fir and Juniper Berry are available from Ananda Aromatherapy, along with a great many aromatherapy supplies for the home user and natural health professional.
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