Why Change to Physique Oil??  

Since I began Osmia, certainly one of my missions has been to transform the world to utilizing physique oil as an alternative of physique lotion for one easy purpose: 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. If you apply physique oil to drenched pores and skin, you create your individual lotion (oil + water), and also you skip the emulsifiers, in addition to the preservatives required whenever you add water to a components. To be taught 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 it’s a must to practice your self to not dry off whenever you exit the bathe, you additionally must stroll round in your birthday swimsuit for 3-4 minutes to ensure that the oil to sink in utterly earlier than getting dressed. These minutes, nevertheless, can be utilized to brush your enamel, have a unadorned dance get together, or just loosen up 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 skill to nourish the pores and skin and transport the thoughts. If in case you have hassle settling down earlier than mattress, our Evening Physique Oil, with lavender, chamomile, and atlas cedar important oils, can calm your frenzied state and assist ease you into sleep. If you happen to want some consolation, you may strive our attractive Sundown physique oil, a sensual oil steeped in natural vanilla bourbon and jasmine extracts that wrap you in a heat cloud of pure goodness. If you happen to favor an unscented expertise, you may 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 components excellent was no simple job. Use too many heavy oils and you will really feel like an oil slick. Select too many gentle oils and your pores and skin will not really feel delicate 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 fitting composition for the ultimate mix. Our base oil is identical 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

If you happen to google “coconut oil”, you’ll be impressed with its myriad makes use of. It’s been praised for every little thing from eradicating eye make-up to curing break up ends. By way of skincare, it will probably assist strengthen and soften the pores and skin and get rid of useless pores and skin cells on the floor. It’s also very excessive in lauric acid, which has some antimicrobial exercise. Nonetheless, when utilizing virgin coconut oil straight out of the jar, it will probably 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 superbly with different oils.

Jojoba Oil

Not a real oil, jojoba is definitely made up of liquid wax esters fairly much 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 appear to be 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 wonderful 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 wonderful 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 skill to alleviate signs of eczema and psoriasis. I’ve a wholly unscientific opinion of kukui oil: it’s magical. I am unable to clarify why I’ve discovered this after over a decade of formulating, but it surely 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 could even have some anti-inflammatory exercise because of the presence of quercetin, a flavonoid compound discovered within the almond skins, and antioxidant exercise as a result of 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 during 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? Test. Trans-retinoic acid (vitamin A spinoff) to encourage cell turnover and diminish discoloration? Test. Omega 3 and 6 for anti-inflammatory advantages and wholesome epidermal cell partitions? Test. In brief, this potent oil has all of it. Common use can assist pores and skin cells retain water, lower solar spots, enhance the looks of superb strains, and encourage a smoother texture to the pores and skin. The one purpose you don’t need to apply it straight to the pores and skin is that it’s VERY, VERY orange. Virtually pink. Consider 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 (because of the 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 affords wonderful antioxidant exercise due to its excessive degree of omega 6 fatty acids.

Avocado Oil

One other superbly inexperienced, cold-pressed oil, unrefined avocado oil is nearly as good in your pores and skin when utilized from the skin as it’s from consuming the fruit itself. Wealthy in skin-softening sterolins, the oil affords 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 can assist 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 medical setting. The purpose is to attenuate water loss and maximize water retention in pores and skin cells. Tiny, plump pores and skin cells are glad 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 can assist 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 aid. (What’s an antioxidant, you ask? Learn this!)

Sea Buckthorn Berry Extract

Oil extracted from the ocean buckthorn berry is an unimaginable supply of vitamin C, beta carotene, vitamin E (tocopherols), and omega 7. It’s VERY pink, and placing it in your pores and skin in its pure type just isn’t suggested (once more, belief me on this). However, added to formulations on the proper degree, it would add a heat, orange hue, and nourish the pores and skin immensely.

Rosemary Antioxidant

This final ingredient in our physique oil, and in lots of our merchandise, is principally used to delay the oxidation of the oils themselves. It has some antimicrobial advantages as properly, although oils are usually not liable to bacterial progress the best way 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.

In the end, the choice to anoint your self with oil versus utilizing lotion is a private one, and requires an curiosity in utilizing merchandise which are 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 gained’t discover physique lotions on our website. As with all dedication to your well being, it could take a slight restructuring of your habits and pondering to make the change. However, for these hooked on our physique oils, it has been greater than price it. Just a few decadent, skin-nourishing, aromatherapeutic moments a day is a behavior price forming!