1, does essential oil have a good skin care effect?
Essential oil has a good skin care effect. Essential oil molecules are extremely small, which can effectively penetrate deep skin, help regulate skin secretion function and help purify skin. Especially for people with endocrine dysfunction, the use of essential oil is helpful to regulate endocrine function and fundamentally solve the problems of skin acne, acne, dull complexion and skin aging. Moreover, essential oil can also help promote cell regeneration, and skin care with essential oil can make the skin regain its youthful luster.
2. Different essential oils have different skin care effects.
There are many kinds of essential oils, and different essential oils have certain differences in skin care efficacy.
1. Grapefruit essential oil: Helps to increase skin elasticity, whiten skin and even skin tone. However, it should be noted that it has a certain photosensitive effect, and long-term exposure to the sun should be avoided after using grapefruit essential oil.
2. Geranium essential oil: the main function is to balance oil secretion, improve pore blockage and effectively help acne; It can also promote blood circulation and help restore the ruddy vitality of the skin.
3. Peppermint essential oil: The main function is to help calm and purify the skin, balance oil secretion while soothing the skin after sun exposure, and keep the skin fresh and clean.
4. ylang ylang essential oil: its main function is to balance sebum secretion, prevent skin aging, relieve wrinkles and keep skin young.
5. Lemon essential oil: It can effectively regulate oily skin, brighten skin tone, help whiten skin and remove aged skin. Similarly, lemon essential oil has a photosensitive effect, so it is not suitable for long-term exposure to the sun.
3, the correct essential oil has a good skin care effect.
Choosing the right method when using essential oil for skin care can make essential oil play a better skin care effect. Common methods are as follows:
1. Essential oil dressing
Methods: Add about 2 drops of essential oil into about 400 ml of water, stir well, then immerse the towel in the water, wring the towel out slightly and apply it directly to the face, gently press it with both hands to make the water containing essential oil penetrate into the skin as much as possible, and repeat the above steps for 5- 10 times.
Spray essential oil
Methods: Put 30ml distilled water or purified water into a spray bottle and spray 3-6 drops of essential oil, which has the function of moisturizing and moistening. Note that it is best to cover your face with a facial tissue after spraying the essential oil water, so as to slightly absorb excess water and avoid the evaporation of water from your skin.
3. Essential oil massage
Methods: When in use, pour out the compound massage essential oil directly for later use, and ask a professional beauty masseur for full body massage, or simply give a full body massage at home. This can help promote blood circulation, remove skin garbage, expel toxins, and effectively beautify and protect skin.
4. Essential oil skin care products
Methods: You can buy essential oil skin care products directly, or you can mix 1 drop essential oil with 10 ml base oil, add products such as cream and emulsion, and apply them directly to the skin after mixing evenly.
4. Essential oil skin care precautions
Essential oil skin care can play a very good skin care effect, but it should be noted that if you don't pay attention to the following aspects, it is easy to backfire and damage the skin.
1. Do sensitivity test before use.
Allergy test should be carried out before using essential oil for skin care. Especially for people who are sensitive to essential oils, the use of essential oils will cause skin sensitive reactions.
Practice: add a drop of essential oil to 10ml base oil to dilute, apply it to elbow, wrist or chest skin, and stay on the skin for 24 hours. If there is no redness or irritation, this essential oil is acceptable. You can only test six kinds of essential oils at a time, but you must record what essential oils are applied where, so as to determine which one is suitable for you. If skin discomfort or erythema occurs, rinse with cold water immediately. It will be diluted twice or avoided completely in the future.
2. Dilute it before use.
Pay attention to diluting essential oil before using essential oil for skin care. Essential oil is the essence concentrated from plants, so the concentration of components is very high. If used undiluted, it may cause overnutrition. Generally, we will dilute the essential oil base oil according to the ratio of 1: 10.
It should not be used too frequently.
When using essential oils for skin care, it should be noted that the more frequently used, the better the skin care effect will be. On the contrary, frequent use of essential oils for skin care can easily make the body feel uncomfortable.
4. Essential oil should be replaced after a period of use.
Use the same essential oil continuously for no more than 3 weeks, and avoid using single essential oil every day. Because long-term use of an essential oil may cause skin dependence and reduce the use effect. If the essential oil used is toxic, long-term use will accumulate toxins and cause unnecessary damage to body function. The duration of compound essential oil should not exceed half a year.
5. Essential oil skin care is not suitable for everyone.
People with hypertension, epilepsy, neuropathy and kidney diseases should avoid using certain essential oils (such as cypress, rosemary, sage, black pepper, pine and fennel). The above personnel need to receive the guidance of a professional aromatherapist before using essential oil.
Pregnant women should avoid using certain essential oils during pregnancy, because some of them will lead to menstrual disorder and some may lead to fluid loss in the placenta. These essential oils include basil, sage, juniper, rosemary, marjoram, fennel, clove bud, cypress, chamomile, lemon grass, mint, cedar, eucalyptus and so on.
6. Do not use essential oil for skin care during menstruation.
Essential oil usually has the function of promoting blood circulation and promoting blood circulation. If you use essential oil massage during menstruation, it may increase the amount of blood outflow, and some women with dysmenorrhea may even have a blood collapse. Be careful.
5, the use of essential oil
(1) essential oil aromatherapy
There are four methods to choose from for essential oil aromatherapy: 5 to 8 drops of essential oil can be added to the water tank of the humidifier, so that essential oil molecules can diffuse into the air with the activities of the humidifier; In addition to the humidifier, you can also put cotton balls covered with essential oil in the place where heating or cold air diffuses, so that essential oil molecules can spread. Candles and electronic aromatherapy, which girls often love, are very convenient to disperse essential oil molecules through candle burning or electricity after dropping essential oil into candlesticks or aromatherapy lamps.
(2) Essential oil massage method
Massage the whole body with essential oil can speed up the blood circulation of the body and expel harmful toxins from the body. The common method is to mix and dilute three to four drops of essential oil with three to four milliliters of basic essential oil, and then directly apply it to the whole body for massage.
(3) essential oil inhalation method
Add three to five drops of essential oil to one liter of hot water, dilute it and cover the basin with a towel. When the hot air evaporates through the towel, take a deep breath in front of the towel and absorb the hot air of essential oil, which is beneficial to the health of respiratory tract and facial skin.
(4) essential oil gargle method
Rinse your mouth with two or three drops of essential oil diluted with water, spit it out after ten seconds, rinse your mouth repeatedly until the whole glass of water is used up, and stick to it every day to ensure fresh breath, protect your teeth and reduce the occurrence of throat inflammation. The essential oils commonly used for gargling mainly include tea tree essential oil, lavender essential oil and mint essential oil. When you have a toothache, apply cinnamon essential oil directly to the toothache to relieve the pain.
(5) Scraping method of essential oil
Pure plant essential oil and compound essential oil are mixed and matched, smeared on various acupoints, and scraped with a scraping plate, which can not only detoxify and lose weight, but also relieve symptoms such as stomachache, vomiting, abdominal distension, dyspepsia, constipation, palpitation and shortness of breath, improve the immune function of the body, and play a role in disease prevention and health care.
(6) essential oil bath method
Drop five to six drops of essential oil into warm edema and soak your feet or hands in a basin for about ten minutes. If possible, you can soak in the bathtub. This method is good for treating muscle soreness and promoting blood circulation. Rose essential oil can also be added in hand care to moisturize the skin.