There are essential oils that can help the skin in eliminating excess sebum, rebalancing the hydrolipidic film and sebum secretion, nourishing and protecting the skin.
Not all oils are suitable for oily skin, so it is necessary to know how to recognize them.
Essential oils for oily skin
The base oils for oily skin can be almond oil, grapeseed oil, hazelnut or apricot oil .
To them can be added the essential oils of: orange, blue chamomile, cypress, juniper, rosemary, geranium, jasmine, lavender, petit grain, ylang ylang, lemon. Depending on the mixtures, two treatments can be created for oily skin .
Rebalancing mixture of oils for the day for oily skin
Ingredients
> essential oil of blue geranium: 10 drops
> lemon essential oil: 10 drops
> rosemary essential oil: 2 drops
Preparation : add 30 ml of base oil, preferably hazelnut oil . A small amount of oil is massaged onto the skin of the face until completely absorbed.
Be careful not to distribute the oil around the eyes. It is then dabbed with a tissue to remove excess oil that is not absorbed.
The amount of oil to be used is variable for each person; it is therefore useful to make attempts until you find out what is the right dosage for your skin.
Essential oils for facial skin
Blend of night oils for oily skin
Ingredients :
> lemon essential oil : 10 drops
> petit grain essential oil : 10 drops
> juniper essential oil: 10 drops
Preparation : the essential oils are mixed in 10 ml of base . As for the day treatment, a few drops are massaged onto the skin, excluding the eye contour, until it is completely absorbed and the excess oil is dabbed with a tissue.
Warnings : before applying any treatment it is recommended to cleanse the skin with a little warm water, without using additional detergents or soaps. It is also advisable to always test essential oils on a small portion of skin to ascertain any personal sensitivities.
The oily skin of the face
The sebaceous glands located in the epidermis of the body and also of the face normally produce sebum in such quantities as to make the skin well hydrated and protected.
However, when this does not happen there are 2 drawbacks: dry skin and oily skin.
Oily skin is characterized by excessive greasiness, often accompanied by blackheads and blackheads or pimples, due to the fact that sebum does not allow adequate transpiration and removal of impurities .
The causes can be hormonal and related to particular moments of life, or even a lifestyle that overloads the primary excretory organs, assigning secondary ones, including the skin, to dispose of an excess of toxins. Even moments of particular psycho-emotional stress, inadequate nutrition, can lead to developing the problem of oily skin.
It is easy to think that for an oily skin it is necessary to degrease the epidermis to solve the problem, avoiding nourishing treatments; actually acting aggressively worsens the manifestations of oily skin, as the skin increases its sebum production, in most cases. In the remaining cases, the opposite problem may occur: dry skin, impoverishing the surface layer of adequate protection and necessary nourishment.
