Create Your Own Anti-Aging Skin Care Blend At Home
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We all want to protect our skin from aging, and would love to be using the best products for this purpose. You can easily mix up some one of the world's finest anti-aging skin care blends at home, for a fraction of the cost of the high end products. Because you're not paying for advertising and shelf space in a high end store, you can use the finest ingredients every step of the way, while directly targeting the causes of premature skin aging.
Our skin has to defend itself on a daily basis from an onslaught of aging factors. From the outside, these include overexposure to sunlight and pollutants in the air. From the inside, processed foods, and especially sugars, are aging our skin more quickly. All these factors result in either one or both of these processes: the creation of oxidative radicals and chronic inflammation on a cellular level. Both these processes result in the slow, steady degradation of our skin cells.
We're all fairly familiar with oxidative radicals -- they've been big news in health for a long time. Briefly, when our skin is exposed to UV light, the light breaks oxygen molecules apart -- these "oxidative free radicals" start destroying our skin cells by capturing electrons. An anti-oxidant donates an electron instead, and the process is stopped, and essential oils are some of the most potent known natural anti-oxidants. The essential oil distilled from the resin of the myrrh tree has one of the highest "Oxidative Radical Absorbance Capacities" -- for this reason its commonly found in blends for "mature skin", and will be in our formula for really "prevention of mature skin".
The latest research is now pointing to inflammation, rather than oxidation, as being the greatest factor contributing to aging. While a little temporary inflammation is actually healing, chronic inflammation is not. Inflammation wreaks havoc on the internal structure and activity of our skin cells and, like oxidation, leads to permanent damage. Yet again, essential oils to the rescue! Several oils are used primarily for their ability to halt inflammatory processes in the skin. The two most popular for this application are German chamomile and blue tansy. It is the blue pigmented molecules in both of these that imparts their cooling, anti-inflammatory activity. Several other oils have similar properties, and in our blend we'll use these in addition to German chamomile.
Essential oils are not applied to the skin at full strength however, no matter how effective they are. Instead, they're blended at relatively low concentrations into seed and nut oils called "carrier" oils. The carrier oils have important, complementary therapeutic properties of their own. They too contain antioxidants, along with other nutrients and anti-inflammatory essential fatty acids. Carrier oils even when used by themselves keep our skin soft, moisturized and protected. When combined with essential oils, they become real therapeutic medicine.
Now that we've got a little background, how do we go about creating our blends? First, gather all your tools and containers. The blends are best mixed and stored in cobalt blue or amber glass bottles, and if the bottles have a dropper top or pump top, it'll make it easier to dispense the blend when your done. Also, you'll want to know the volume of your bottle(s) in ounces, as you'll use them for measuring.
The recipe will be for one single fluid ounce of final blend -- if you'd like to make more, simply multiply the number of drops of essential oil by the number of ounces you'll be making. Blending itself is easy: just fill your bottles up with the indicated amount of carrier oils, filling them about nine-tenths of the way full. Then measure the essential oils in by counting the drops.
Your carrier oil base will be made of one-third each virgin coconut (you'll need to warm this for it to become liquid -- it will stay liquid once blended with other oils), evening primrose OR hempseed, and argan OR rosehip seed. We've included a couple choices here: both evening primrose and hempseed are high in essential fatty acids that are very nutritive to your skin. Both argan and rosehip seed have been documented to actually reverse the signs of aging in the skin. Whichever you choose, fill your bottle up about 9/10ths of the way with your combination of carrier oils.
To this bottle, add the following: 24 drops sea buckthorn essential oil (also found as CO2 extract -- not the "cold-pressed" oil), 7 drops myrrh essential oil (or CO2 extract), 7 drops German chamomile, and 7 drops lavender. For extra care for mature skin, you can optionally add 7 drops frankincense. Put the cap on and invert the bottle several times to mix (it's better to not shake the bottle, as this can blend oxygen into the oils which can degrade it faster). You're good to go! Apply this wonderful mixture to your face, and any other part of your body you wish, at least once per day. If your bottle is only one ounce, you can store it anywhere. Larger amounts can be stored in the refrigerator for several months. Be consistent, keep using it, and you'll really help your skin maintain its youthful qualities.
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