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Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:42 pm |
Essential oils aren't for moisturizing or hydrating. They mostly have certain other properties, like antiseptic, antibacteria, or stimulating. Here is a guide posted on EDS a while back:
http://www.essentialdayspa.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=5922
Essential oils are almost never used on the skin alone; they require a "carrier oil," and it is the carrier oil that is your best best for moisturizing and hydrating.
If you have dry skin, some great carrier oils are avocado, macadamia, and rosehip seed oil (in smaller concentrations than the macadamia and avocado). You can add a couple of drops of the following essential oils to make a really nice "natural" moisturizer": rosewood, palmarosa, helichrysum. Anything with rose in it is super-hydrating. Although rosehips, rose, and rosewood are unrelated, those three make a great combination!
The most important thing to remember is that there is a BIG difference between essential oils, which are alkaline, liquidy, and feel almost like pure rubbing alcohol on the skin, and botanical oils, which feel like "oil." Essential oils are extremely concentrated and thus a couple of drops in a 30ML glass bottle of botanical carrier oils will give you the benefit you need. At any other concentration, you have a good chance of getting skin irritations.
Calorblind is right that the Angelique Balm by Decleor
http://www.essentialdayspa.com/decleor-aromessence-baume-p_1175.htm
is especially nourishing, as it is a base of beeswax and really moisturizing botanical oils, and a teeny bit of essential oil. It smells heavenly and can be used as a night cream, cuticle cream, and lip balm. Or you can mix it with your favorite basic moisturizer for a hydrating "boost."
It is mainly supposed to be use with their more concentrated botanical oil blends for even more moisture at night, but the angelique balm in the most versatile of the bunch.
--avalange |
_________________ http://newnaturalbeauty.tumblr.com/ 37, light-toned olive skin, broken caps, normal skin. My staples: Osea cleansing milk, Algae Oil, Advanced Protection Cream, Eyes & Lips, Tata Harper, Julie Hewett makeup, Amazing Cosmetics Powder, & By Terry Light Expert, Burnout, and daily inversion therapy and green smoothies! |
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Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:45 pm |
yeah i recently came across a organic french skincare Kibio, which uses macadamia nut in its cream
Chilean musk rose vegetal oil: powerful revitalizing and anti-aging properties
Macadamia vegetal oil: hydrating*, softening and protective
Avocado vegetal oil: well stocked with vitamins A, B, C, D, E, H, K and PP, it combats aging, tones softens and restructures the epidermis |
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