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Choose the Best Cosmetic Ingredient Oils for Your Skin
By Annie B. Bond
Just as one clothing size doesn’t fit all, so too, all cosmetic oils aren’t the same when it comes to your own skin. And, just as you could look awful wearing the wrong sized clothing, so too, choosing the wrong oil for your skin could make it too dry or oily, and be unhealthy, too.
Here is a guide for how to choose products with oils that are *really* right for your skin. Have you been using lip balm or lipstick with petroleum oils? Creams with oils for skin that is younger or older than yours? Which oil does your skin drink up thirstily instead? Here is information about 15 different oils. Give your skin a real treat and find the oils that will be just right.
HEADS UP
Mineral Oil, petroleum jelly, petrolatum: Derived from petroleum.
Emu Oils: Derived from dead birds.
Castor Oils: Find out if yours is from the bean or from muskrats and beavers.
Squaline: Determine if it is derived from sharks or plant oils.
PLANT OILS
Avocado: A lush, rich oil, and one of the most moisturizing; especially perfect for older skin.
Almond: A high protein oil that is lubricating and particularly good for dry skin.
Apricot kernel: Rich, lubricating, soothing and emollient. Great for lip balm.
Cocoa Butter: Water repellent, protective, helpful for dry skin, with some sun blocking qualities.
Grapeseed Oil: One of the least greasy oils that is ideal for protective creams, such as sun screens and blocks, for those with oily skin
Lanolin:The fat from sheep (found in pharmacies as anhydrous lanolin). Lanolin is a very rich, water repellent, oily cream, best for older skin, or skin that is cracked and chapped.
Peanut: A good oil for dry skin because it is nondrying, it is also nutritious and quite adequate for most skin types.
Sesame: An oil with natural sunscreen qualities, it is rich and anti-inflammatory.
Jojoba: Technically a liquid wax which will never go rancid, jojoba is a good lubricant for most skin types.
Olive Oil: Olive oil is a slow dryer, and won’t go rancid for a long time. Olive oil is better for younger skin.
Shea Butter: Used frequently in moisturizers as a natural sunscreen, it is also a great emollient and moisturizer. Ideal for older skin.
Wheat Germ Oil: A very nutritious oil rich in vitamin E. The vitamin E provides preservative properties, and this oil is used for the reason in some products.
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add your comment »We use E Essential 24 Best Skin Oil (bestskinoil.com) and it contains a lot of the benificial oils you listed plus a few more.
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why is this inappropriate?
Lanolin is made when they remove the oils from sheeps wool (which is a heavy greasy mess when first sheared, nothing like what it ends up like in sweaters!). This does not require killing the sheep, mearly giving him or her a hair cut.
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I cannot agree with these natural ingredients more...I offer these ingredients @ www.afroscentric.etsy.com. I sell African based skin care solutions, my ingredients are ALL NATURAL & are African based...shea butter, aloe butter, avocado butter, African essential oils, African herbs, etc.
I specialize in eczema solutions as well..my eczema balm/oil/bar is ALL NATURAL and is the perfect alternative to STEROID INDUCED DRUGS! I use the ingredients mentioned above along with numerous others that are not mentioned. I deal with African essential oils which do "wonders" for skin ailments...these oils are not well known here in the states, so you will be receiving answers to your skin care needs @ Afro*Scent*Ric Bath & Body Haven...www.afroscentric.etsy.com
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Is lanolin from dead sheep?
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Where can I find them? Thanks.
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I was always told that if you wouldn't put it in your mouth then you shouldn't put it in your skin.
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Mineral oil and petroleum oils are, think about it.... ROCK oil. Oil from rocks! Oil from mining sludge. YUK!!! Would you REALLY want THAT on your skin?? Every good mother back in the 50-60's used mineral oil on their babies, not realizing we were drying out their precious little skin. Thank God we know better now, and thank you, Annie, for spreading the news!
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