At all times, people use essential oils to rejuvenate the skin; they are also called incense, which have unique persistent odors and a pungent taste.
Essential oils are obtained from essential oil plants by extracting strong-smelling volatile substances from their tiny glands.
They have a powerful healing effect on a person, affecting 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 give their preference to 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 the skin are: sandalwood and neroli, frankincense and rose, fennel and grapefruit, myrrh and limette, 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 basis.
The following oils are suitable for the base or base: wheat germ, primrose, jojoba and avocado oils, cedar and walnut, coconut, mango and cocoa, pistachios and peach seeds, argan and borage, apricot and grape seeds.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 mixtures can only be used for normal to dry skin, while prepared creams are more suitable for oily skin.But adding essential oils to ready-made, store-bought cosmetics is not recommended!
When preparing mixtures and creams, fatty oils, it is also recommended to take not one, but several: 2-4 oils.
Regular care is necessary for any skin.And if you include incense in your daily skin care routine, it can be turned into a pleasure.
Taking into account skin types, a selection has been made of the use of essential oils for skin care, 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 make 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 chamomile, 1 rose and 3 drops each 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. The following compositional solutions can be made from them:
- 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 anti-aging face cream
Ingredients: 5 ml each of jojoba, coconut and wheat germ oils, 5 grams of emulsifier, soy lecithin is suitable.
Stir, heat in a water bath 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 to it.
In order for the prepared cream to be stored longer, it is necessary to add a preservative to it, which is also bought 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 a pharmacy, or use grapefruit seed extract, then your prepared cream will be stored in the refrigerator for almost a month.
Based on the resulting cream, you can make a rejuvenating scrub by adding olives, or ground apricot kernels, or bamboo powder.Just don’t forget to reduce the concentration of oils or don’t put them in the scrub at all.The composition of fatty oils can be changed at your discretion, as you like.
A few tips: When exposed to the sun, citrus essential oils can provoke photodermatosis or pigmentation 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 wipe the skin after washing, before applying cream.
Essential oils for skin rejuvenation are applied every evening to the face, neck and décolleté.Cosmetics made from natural ingredients have a beneficial effect on the skin, even out the tone and complexion and give it radiance, activate metabolic processes, cleanse and rejuvenate.