4. Rose essential oil
Rose essential oil is known for its soothing, astringent and toning properties, making it ideal for sensitive skin subject to couperose, dry skin, and more mature skin, which therefore requires an effective anti-wrinkle action.
Its soothing and flaming properties, in particular, make it a perfect ingredient to be added in preparations and recipes of scrubs and DIY masks for reddened and particularly sensitive skin.
5. Essential oil of chamomile
Even the essential oil of chamomile is particularly suitable for sensitive and delicate skin. It's emollient, protective and anti-inflammatory properties make it the perfect ingredient where there is a need to calm red and inflamed skin. It is also indicated in case of skin stressed by excessive exposure to the sun or by slight erythema and redness.
Like rose oil and lavender oil, chamomile essential oil is also successfully used in the preparation of scrubs and DIY masks for the most sensitive and delicate skins, thanks to the calming and flaming action they enjoy, to ensure a gentle exfoliation and not too aggressive.
6. Essential oil of neroli or bitter orange
Essential oils a cell regenerator with soothing properties, the essential oil of neroli or bitter orange is an effective aid for mature skin to combat loss of tone and elasticity and stimulate the regenerative processes of skin cells. Also, it acts as a soothing for reddened and irritated skin, which requires a calming and flaming action. For this reason, neroli essential oil is often used in the preparation of beauty masks or in addition to nourishing and moisturizing creams, for a soothing, calming and toning effect.
Face scrub with essential oils
The scrubs have a perfect exfoliating action, which helps cell renewal and makes the skin softer, brighter and smoother. It is generally recommended doing one per week, but it is important to choose the ingredients best suited to your skin type, to avoid overstressing it or acting on it with too aggressive an action.
Usually, for a recipe of facial scrubs do it yourself, you need:
— a granulated ingredient for rubbing (cane sugar, salt, crystals or silicon powder...)
— a vegetable oil as a shock absorber during exfoliation: sunflower oil, olive oil or sweet almonds, perfect for sensitive skin, Argan oil, suitable for dry or mature skin, and vegetable oil of hazelnuts or jojoba oil for oily skin
— an essential oil according to your needs: for example, lemongrass or thyme oil for oily and impure skin, chamomile or rose oil for more delicate and sensitive skin, lavender or bitter orange oil for mature and dry skin.
Face scrub with silicon powder and essential oil of lavender
A perfect facial scrub for the most sensitive skin is the one based on silicon powder and lavender essential oil for a delicate and effective toning effect. Here's the recipe!
Ingredients:
— perfectly spherical silicon powder, to avoid micro-abrasions on the skin surface, it can be replaced with a sugar, better if granulated or pulverized so that the exfoliation is gentle and not irritating.
— sweet almond vegetable oil, among the most nutritious and with emollient and soothing properties, to create a shock absorber during exfoliation and not create redness
— essential oil of lavender, with regenerating, soothing and flaming properties, perfect for vitalizing without creating redness. It can also be replaced with bitter orange or pink oil, both soothing and stimulating.
Face scrub with honey and essential oil of lemongrass or thyme
A scrub suitable for oily and impure skin, also effective against acne and blackheads, is based on honey and essential oil of lemongrass or thyme, both purifying agents with detoxifying and mattifying properties. In this case, let's avoid vegetable oil, replacing it with honey, so as not to weigh down a naturally greasy skin such as oily skin.
Ingredients:
2 teaspoons of cane sugar
2 teaspoons of honey
1 drop of lemongrass or thyme oil
Simply stir and massage gently before rinsing effectively and in a moment you will feel your skin fresher, cleaner and more hydrated.
Face masks with essential oils
Essential oils are also an excellent ingredient for the preparation of DIY face masks, to be made once or twice a week, to cleanse and thoroughly cleanse the skin, improving its color and appearance.
Used in combination with ingredients such as green clay - perfect for oily and impure skin, for example - honey or egg yolk, and a teaspoon of water or lemon juice, essential oils can allow you to create masks with different properties, according to your needs, thus emphasizing the soothing, moisturizing, energizing or purifying properties they enjoy.
Purifying green clay and lavender essential oil mask
As already mentioned, green clay is particularly recommended for oily skin, with blackheads or acne-prone skin, thanks to its rebalancing and mattifying properties that normalize the production of sebum and attenuate the shiny appearance of the skin.
The green clay is perfect in combination with the essential oil of lavender, with its soothing and illuminating power, to create a compound with detoxifying effectiveness and soothing properties at the same time.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons of green clay
1 drop of lavender essential oil
distilled water of flowers to taste
Just mix the ingredients to obtain a homogeneous and smooth compound and apply it to the face, leaving it on for about twenty minutes.
Mask with egg yolk and essential oil of neroli
The egg yolk mask is an excellent moisturizer and is an ideal option for mature, dry and stressed skin, which therefore requires a nourishing and effective anti-wrinkle action.
Combined with the essential oil of neroli — soothing and regenerating at the same time — it can give rise to a mask with an energizing and toning effect for an effective but delicate action, suitable for even the most sensitive skin.
Ingredients
1 egg yolk
1 drop of orange essential oil
1 tablespoon water
Also in this case, simply mix the ingredients and spread the compound on the face, leaving it on for about twenty minutes. Apply once or twice a week, depending on your needs.
