Why Swap to Physique Oil??
Since I began Osmia, one in all my missions has been to transform the world to utilizing physique oil as a substitute of physique lotion for one easy cause: you don’t want physique lotion! Why? As a result of all lotions are product of oil and water, held collectively by one thing known as an emulsifier. While you apply physique oil to soaking wet pores and skin, you create your individual lotion (oil + water), and also you skip the emulsifiers, in addition to the preservatives required if you add water to a formulation. To study extra about why physique oil makes extra sense than utilizing physique lotion (which is 70% water), learn this!
How Do I Apply Physique Oil So I am Not Greasy?
You apply it to moist pores and skin. Not damp pores and skin, WET pores and skin, like the place you may see the droplets of water mixing with the physique oil as you apply it. Now, I admit that the behavior of placing physique oil on moist pores and skin takes a bit of getting used to: not solely do you need to practice your self to not dry off if you exit the bathe, you additionally should stroll round in your birthday swimsuit for 3-4 minutes to ensure that the oil to sink in fully earlier than getting dressed. These minutes, nonetheless, can be utilized to brush your tooth, have a unadorned dance celebration, or just chill out and inhale the aromatherapy advantages of the oil.
Osmia’s physique oil assortment accommodates natural and wild-harvested oils and extracts that I’ve rigorously chosen based mostly on their capability to nourish the pores and skin and transport the thoughts. In case you have bother settling down earlier than mattress, our Night time Physique Oil, with lavender, chamomile, and atlas cedar important oils, can calm your frenzied state and assist ease you into sleep. In the event you want some consolation, you may attempt our beautiful Sundown physique oil, a sensual oil steeped in natural vanilla bourbon and jasmine extracts that wrap you in a heat cloud of pure goodness. In the event you desire an unscented expertise, you will get all of the pores and skin advantages and no important oils in our silky Bare Physique Oil.
What oils work greatest in a physique oil?
Getting our physique oil formulation excellent was no straightforward process. Use too many heavy oils and you may really feel like an oil slick. Select too many mild oils and your pores and skin will not really feel smooth sufficient. It took me months of testing and adjusting to get our physique oil base precisely proper. I examined every particular person oil on my pores and skin to see the way it absorbed, the way it felt an hour after making use of it, the way it smelled, after which had to determine the precise composition for the ultimate mix. Our base oil is similar for all of the scents and contains 11 powerhouse plant oils, loaded with antioxidant and anti inflammatory advantages. A short description of why I selected every oil is listed beneath:
Fractionated Coconut Oil
In the event you google “coconut oil”, you’ll be impressed with its myriad makes use of. It’s been praised for all the things from eradicating eye make-up to curing break up ends. By way of skincare, it could actually assist strengthen and soften the pores and skin and remove useless pores and skin cells on the floor. Additionally it is very excessive in lauric acid, which has some antimicrobial exercise. Nevertheless, when utilizing virgin coconut oil straight out of the jar, it could actually really feel oddly dry and greasy on the identical time. The excessive lauric acid focus can truly dry out your pores and skin and hair over time!
For that reason, we use natural fractionated coconut oil, which is a transparent liquid at room temperature. It accommodates solely medium chain fatty acids, with out the lengthy chain fatty acids that make the uncooked oil stable at room temperature, and has a really lengthy shelf life. With virtually no lauric acid, it has a easy, velvety texture, and blends fantastically with different oils.
Jojoba Oil
Not a real oil, jojoba is definitely made up of liquid wax esters fairly just like the sebum our pores and skin creates in its personal sebaceous glands. For that reason, it’s a very efficient hair and pores and skin softener, and was utilized by many indigenous folks for these functions. They’d make use of a mortar and pestle to macerate heated jojoba seeds (they seem like large espresso beans) and make a conditioning butter. Jojoba has been alleged to have antifungal properties as properly. We select it in our physique oil due to its glorious pores and skin softening potential, easy texture, and lengthy shelf life.
Kukui Nut Oil
Kukui nut oil is harvested from the Hawaii state tree (additionally known as the candlenut tree). Kukui nuts are cold-pressed to acquire this clear, extremely emollient oil. Excessive in nutritional vitamins A, C, and E, it has glorious antioxidant properties, serving to pores and skin cells keep wholesome and practical. It has additionally been used to deal with wounds and burns, and a few folks tout its capability to alleviate signs of eczema and psoriasis. I’ve a wholly unscientific opinion of kukui oil: it’s magical. I can not clarify why I’ve discovered this after over a decade of formulating, nevertheless it does one thing extraordinary in skincare merchandise, serving to them penetrate the pores and skin extra successfully.
Candy Almond Oil
Richer than among the different oils, this nourishing nut oil is excessive in oleic acid and omega-9 fatty acids, that are able to a considerably deeper penetration into the layers of the pores and skin than different fatty acids. It might even have some anti-inflammatory exercise as a result of presence of quercetin, a flavonoid compound discovered within the almond skins, and antioxidant exercise resulting from excessive ranges of Vitamin E. The feel is thicker, with a bit extra “drag” than among the lighter oils, and contributes to the residual velvety feeling of the pores and skin hours after making use of our physique oils.
Rosehip Seed Oil
Now here’s a powerhouse oil. I don’t even know the place to start describing the methods through which this cold-pressed oil from the seeds (“hips”) of the Rosa rubiginosa bush is useful to the pores and skin. Tremendous-antioxidant lycopene to assist restore solar broken pores and skin? Verify. Trans-retinoic acid (vitamin A by-product) to encourage cell turnover and diminish discoloration? Verify. Omega 3 and 6 for anti-inflammatory advantages and wholesome epidermal cell partitions? Verify. In brief, this potent oil has all of it. Common use might help pores and skin cells retain water, lower solar spots, enhance the looks of tremendous traces, and encourage a smoother texture to the pores and skin. The one cause you don’t wish to apply it straight to the pores and skin is that it’s VERY, VERY orange. Nearly purple. Imagine me—I do know this from very unlucky private expertise.
Hemp Seed Oil
Sure, that is oil from a marijuana plant! However don’t be afraid that it’s going to intoxicate you, except by its stunning deep inexperienced coloration (as a result of excessive chlorophyll content material). The strains used for making hemp seed oil are these with solely hint quantities of psychoactive tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and there isn’t any THC contained in the seeds anyway. The oil is cold-pressed, and gives glorious antioxidant exercise due to its excessive degree of omega 6 fatty acids.
Avocado Oil
One other fantastically inexperienced, cold-pressed oil, unrefined avocado oil is pretty much as good on your pores and skin when utilized from the surface as it’s from consuming the fruit itself. Wealthy in skin-softening sterolins, the oil gives enhanced penetration of the nutritional vitamins (A, E), potassium, and lecithin it accommodates, and is excessive in omega 3 fatty acids as properly.
Borage Seed Oil
Additionally known as starflower oil, this is among the two richest sources of gamma linoleic acid (GLA), a really potent antioxidant and anti inflammatory. GLA is utilized by the physique to make prostaglandins, which have profound anti-inflammatory results, and might help pores and skin cells lose much less water. This “transepidermal water loss,” or TEWL, is among the metrics by which pores and skin perform is assessed in a scientific setting. The objective is to reduce water loss and maximize water retention in pores and skin cells. Tiny, plump pores and skin cells are completely happy pores and skin cells!
Night Primrose Oil
That is one other oil very excessive in gamma linoleic acid, and has been proven to enhance pores and skin perform when taken internally. TEWL, moisture, elasticity, firmness, and roughness all enhance after 3 months of supplementation with this oil. It is among the causes I like to recommend night primrose oil for perioral dermatitis. GLA will increase circulation as properly, which might help pores and skin keep vibrant and glowing. It’s wealthy within the flavonoid catechin, ANOTHER antioxidant, and within the amino acid phenylalanine, which is being studied for ache reduction. (What’s an antioxidant, you ask? Learn this!)
Sea Buckthorn Berry Extract
Oil extracted from the ocean buckthorn berry is an unbelievable supply of vitamin C, beta carotene, vitamin E (tocopherols), and omega 7. It’s VERY purple, and placing it in your pores and skin in its pure type isn’t suggested (once more, belief me on this). However, added to formulations on the proper degree, it is going to add a heat, orange hue, and nourish the pores and skin immensely.
Rosemary Antioxidant
This final ingredient in our physique oil, and in a lot of our merchandise, is especially used to delay the oxidation of the oils themselves. It has some antimicrobial advantages as properly, although oils are usually not liable to bacterial development the way in which water is. It’s a potent extract, and we use it at a low proportion to assist defend the merchandise, and supply added antioxidant advantages for the pores and skin.
Finally, the choice to anoint your self with oil versus utilizing lotion is a private one, and requires an curiosity in utilizing merchandise which can be higher each for you and for the earth. I hope this text has illuminated among the plain advantages of utilizing natural and pure oils in your pores and skin and why you received’t discover physique lotions on our website. As with every dedication to your well being, it might take a slight restructuring of your habits and pondering to make the swap. However, for these hooked on our physique oils, it has been greater than value it. Just a few decadent, skin-nourishing, aromatherapeutic moments a day is a behavior value forming!
