| Have you always wanted to try the world's finest skin | | | | of these oils are considered highly balancing, bringing |
| care product, but found the prices somewhat | | | | oils back to a healthy middle ground. Sandalwood is |
| outrageous? Ever considered making your own? It's | | | | excellent for both oily AND dry skin, adding a pleasing, |
| so easy to do, and you can create a formula precisely | | | | grounding, earthy aroma to your formula (it is quite |
| to match your skin type, with remarkable effective | | | | popular in men's skin care too). Myrtle is astringent, |
| natural and pure botanicals (plant-based ingredients). | | | | tightening, antiseptic, and has a fresh, bright, |
| Making these yourself will give you a skin care product | | | | herbaceous aroma with a lemony-twist. |
| that matches or exceeds the effectiveness of | | | | Holding It All Together: Your Formula's Base |
| anything you can buy over the counter at a truly | | | | While the essential oils are often considered the |
| affordable price. Try one of these recipes and you | | | | "active ingredients", its important to consider the "carrier |
| may never go back to fancy labels, boxes and prices | | | | oils" are exceptionally therapeutic as well. For these |
| ever again! | | | | recipes, we highly recommend the use of two very |
| Essential Oils: The Best Skin Care Botanicals | | | | well-regarded tropical nut oils: Coconut and Kukui. |
| The heart of much of the finest natural skin care is | | | | Coconut has a very long history (thousands of years, |
| made up of volatile plant extracts, otherwise known as | | | | actually) in skin care, mentioned often in Ayurvedic |
| essential oils. While some folks still see essential oils as | | | | medicine. It is antimicrobial and hydrating (spanning the |
| some sort of New Age funny-smelling stuff, the truth is | | | | needs from the acne prone to the chronically dry). |
| getting out: that essential oils really are medicine, and | | | | Kukui has similar properties, and remains liquid at room |
| many of them are some of the finest skin care | | | | temperature -- allowing easy mixing and application of |
| ingredients money can buy. There's even a whole | | | | your custom recipe. These two oils have been used |
| bunch of scientific data to back it up (search | | | | by peoples of tropical climes to care for the skin of the |
| pubmed.gov for "calendula" or "rosehipseed" and "skin" | | | | young and old, successfully, for so long -- and now you |
| for example, and you'll see all sorts of papers). The | | | | too can reap their benefits. |
| essential oils make up the "active ingredients" of your | | | | Rosehip Seed: Nature's Anti-Wrinkle Solution |
| formula, and the "carrier oils" into which they're mixed | | | | Cold pressed from the seeds of wild roses, grown |
| make up the "base". Creating a custom recipe is as | | | | high and arid regions of South America, comes |
| easy as selecting a few essential oils and one or two | | | | Rosehip Seed Oil, Rosa Mosqueta. A study done in |
| carrier oils that suit your skin's particular needs, and | | | | 1983 at the University of Santiago, Chile, revealed the |
| mixing them together just as you would and recipe in | | | | exceptionally therapeutic activity of this oil for |
| the kitchen. | | | | smoothing the skin in every respect: it reduces |
| Rose is the Oil of Beauty | | | | wrinkles, smooths skin color, significantly slows further |
| Again and again, in every natural skin care recipe book, | | | | skin aging, reduces scar appearance and more. |
| one finds one oil more highly regarded than any other | | | | Rosehip seed should NOT be used by those currently |
| -- Rose Otto, the steam distilled variety of Rose (it is | | | | susceptible to acne breakouts, as its ability to increase |
| also found as an Absolute, which is more appropriate | | | | skin-cell turnover can exacerbate this particular |
| for natural perfumes). Rose Otto has a host of | | | | situation. For everyone else, mixing Rosehip seed and |
| therapeutic skin care properties: it hydrates without | | | | the tropical nut oils creates an incredible synergy of |
| being greasy, it's gently antiseptic, soothing to damaged | | | | effects. So lets mix up some of this beauty magic! |
| skin, can heal broken capillaries, and supports the skin's | | | | Putting It All Together for Your Custom Formula: |
| natural metabolism. It is also the most important oil for | | | | Ingredients: 1 dark glass bottle 30 or 60ml (1 or 2 |
| women for its heart opening, anti-depressant action -- | | | | ounces). Blue cobalt is beautiful. Brown is also |
| considered the "oil of the highest vibration" used in | | | | appropriate. You'll want to use a dark colored glass to |
| aroma-therapeutics. While a bit pricey, it's very potent; | | | | protect the essential oils. Also: 1 funnel, essential oils |
| only a few drops are needed in any recipe. | | | | and carrier oils of choice. |
| Calendula: Nature's Healing Magic | | | | To Mix: Measure into the bottle your essential oils of |
| Calendula oil has been used for hundreds of years for | | | | choice. Fill the rest of the bottle with the approximate |
| all sorts of skin care uses. Its exceptionally soothing, | | | | amounts of the indicated carrier oils -- they need not |
| with the traditional use being for infant's skin care. The | | | | be as exact as the essential oils. Spiral the bottle and |
| flowers have been hard to work with however, limiting | | | | allow to blend for 2 hours or longer. The scent will |
| the uses of this magnificent medicinal plant. A new | | | | become more and more delicious over time. Use 2 x |
| extraction technique now offers us a Calendula oil | | | | day on clean skin. Each recipe is for one fluid ounce of |
| concentrate, often labeled Calendula CO2. This new | | | | blend; you can make more by multiplying the amounts |
| extract is highly antioxidant, powerfully wound-healing, | | | | however many times you'd like. |
| and one of the most effective soothers of irritated or | | | | Brilliant Beauty Recipes for All Skin Types: |
| damaged skin available on Earth. | | | | For dry skin with smile lines: Rose Otto 8 drops, |
| Companion Oils for Balance and Vitality | | | | Lavender 12 drops, Calendula CO2 6 drops, based in |
| We'll also add something truly regenerative -- one or | | | | equal parts Coconut, Kukui oil and Rosehip seed oils. |
| more essential oils that really helps the skin look and | | | | For mature skin with scars and smile lines: Rose Otto |
| feel ALIVE. Three excellent choices are Rosemary | | | | 6 drops, Lavender 8 drops, Helichrysum 6 drops, |
| Verbenone, Helichrysum italicum, and French Lavender. | | | | Rosemary V. 6 drops, based in equal parts Coconut, |
| Rosemary has also been used in skin care for | | | | Kukui oil and Rosehip seed oils. |
| hundreds (maybe even thousands) of years. Cleansing | | | | For irritated or sensitive skin: Rosemary Verbenone 8 |
| and invigorating, Rosemary increasing the metabolism | | | | drops, Lavender 6 drops, Calendula 6 drops, |
| of skin cells (more nutrients in and more waste out). | | | | Sandalwood 6 drops, in equal parts of all three base |
| The Verbenone type contains a natural constituent | | | | oils. |
| considered by therapists to speed tissue regeneration, | | | | For skin that is oily or combination: Green Myrtle 10 |
| making healthier skin faster! Helichrysum is more potent | | | | drops, Lavender 8, drops, Rosemary V. 6 drops, in |
| than Rosemary as an anti-inflammatory, and | | | | equal parts of Kukui and Coconut oils only, no Rosehip |
| regenerative, but not quite as stimulating to cell | | | | Seed. |
| metabolism or as strong an anti-septic. Lavender is | | | | And there you have it: incredibly effective "mature |
| likely the most common of the regenerative skin care | | | | skin" care blends for every woman. Once you make |
| essential oils; its very gentle, soothing, balancing, and | | | | one of these yourself, and realize you may have just |
| cleansing -- its also quite floral, so if you like earthier | | | | made yourself the best skin care formula EVER, you |
| aromas, choose Rosemary or Helichrysum, if you | | | | can experiment a little with one or more of the |
| enjoy flower-scents, go for the Lavender. | | | | hundreds of essential oils available. Each has unique |
| A final two essential oils with significant therapeutic | | | | therapeutic properties that are highly compatible to our |
| action in skin care: Green Myrtle and Sandalwood. Both | | | | skin. Here's to your happy, healthy glow! |