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Essential oils make marvelous face oils. In this section treatments are given for three of skin and, in general, you need 30 types of drops of essential oil for each 2 tablespoons of base oil, unless specified. If you want a more intensive treatment, use 45 drops of essential oil.
Combination skin is a patchwork of normal, oily, and dry skin with the oily patches usually occurring on the forehead, nose, and chin, and these are often accompanied by blackheads. Treat combination skin as normal skin, and if oily patches are a problem use the face oils for oily skin on those areas. As the skin starts to balance you can adjust the treatment accordingly. Our skins can change quite rapidly, so do take notice of the changes and always facial skin care.
Really, there is no such thing as normal skin. Or, more correctly, children have normal skin and the rest of us aspire to it!
The perfect skin of prepuberty is plump, in the sense that the cells are plump, neither dry nor oily, firm and solid, finely textured with no visible pores, spots, or blemishes, soft and velvety to the touch, and unwrinkled. Adults can only yearn for this perfection, and we call skin “normal” if it reaches somewhere near it–about halfway is good enough. The term “normal” is so inappropriate in this context that I prefer to call this type of skin “evenly balanced.”
If you have skin that falls into this category you could use almost any essential oil in your skin preparations, but you should stick to the gentle or even the sensitive type of oils to ensure that your skin remains near perfect.
This moisturizer should be applied to damp skin. Massage it in and then dab the face with a tissue until no excess oil shows on the tissue.
Dilute in 2 tablespoons apricot kernel oil to which you have added 10 drops of evening primrose oil.
If you feel that your skin needs extra nourishment, add 5 drops of carrot oil.
When the sebaceous glands are not producing enough oil to keep the skin soft and supple it can become dry, prone to wrinkles, less supple, and flakiness may occur. In time it can become sensitive and prone to inflammation, and dehydrated easily by central heating, wind, and sun
This type of skin is prone to peeling and itching during periods of stress. It generally feels taut after washing. Sometimes dry skin is caused by menopause and hormonal changes..
The outer layer of skin is not hydrated from the moisture that surrounds all human cells, interstitial fluid, because there is an impervious barrier between the outer layer of skin and those layers below, and the outer layer of skin is in fact dead and without the usual interstitial fluid of all other human cells. Nor, surprisingly perhaps, is it hydrated by the action of sebaceous glands. Rather, the fat produced by the sebaceous glands acts as a trap for the imperceptible and the visible perspiration which lubricates the outer layer of skin. If there is not enough fat being produced, the perspiration evaporates too quickly, leaving the skin too dry.
Dilute in 2 tablespoons of the base vegetable oil to which added 10 drops of you have evening primrose and 2 drops of carrot oil.
Use in the same way as you would your usual moisturizing cream or lotion.
Blend the base oil:
then add
and blend again
This makes an extremely rich night oil. Massage a small amount into the skin, leave it for a while and then wipe off the excess with a tissue.
Oily skin is caused by overactive sebaceous glands. These are subject to hormonal changes which is why oily skin can become a problem during puberty. Overactive sebaceous glands can lead to seborrheic but more often the problem occurs as oily patches which leave the skin shining. Ironically, this condition often results from over-cleanliness- -specifically, scrubbing the face with harsh cleansers and soaps or using astringents that contain alcohol.
Many commercial lotions which are designed to degrease a skin actually cause the sebaceous glands to produce more fat to compensate for the lack of it that results. This same vicious circle can apply to hair preparations. Thankfully, the essential oils have the capacity to balance the skin without making the glands produce more sebum and can provide the perfect solution to these sometimes intractable problems.
Dilute in 2 tablespoons of hazelnut oil to which you have added 10 drops of carrot oil.
Massage the oil in and then dab the face with a tissue until no excess oil shows there.
Dilute in 2 10 drops tablespoons apricot kernel oil to which you have added 10 drops carrot oil.
This article is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical diagnosis or treatment.
Source: THE COMPLETE BOOK OF ESSENTIAL OILS & AROMATHERAPY – Valerie Ann Worwood
