Face oils can revive your dry skin.
As you age, several changes in your skin occurs.
Your skin barrier becomes weaker and your skin makes less lipids, fatty acids, vitamins and antioxidants.
Face oils can infuse your skin with essential nutrients and improve your dry skin.
This article will discuss:
- What is a face oil?
- Why do you need a face oil?
- What are the benefits of a face oil?
- How to use a face oil?
- Summary
- References
What is a face oil?
A face oil is an oil-based skincare product that can soften, condition and soothe your skin.
A simple face oil may be composed of a single plant carrier oil, whereas a more complex face oil may contain several plant carrier oils, as well as extracts, actives and essential oils.
There are face oils that are created for different skin types and concerns, including dry skin, mature skin, sensitive skin or acne prone skin.
Learn more: What is a Face Oil?
Why do you need a face oil?
As you age, your skin barrier becomes weaker.
Your skin makes less lipids, fatty acids, vitamins and antioxidants.
Learn more: How Does Aging Change Your Skin?
Studies have shown that the aged skin barrier has a >30% drop in total lipid content in comparison to young skin barrier, due to reduced lipid synthesis in the aging skin (Ghadially et al, 1995; Ghadially et al, 1996).
Aging skin also has less fatty acids. Compared to young skin, aging skin had less short chain fatty acids such as stearic acid (31% lower) and palmitic acid (15% lower) and less omega-6 fatty acid linoleic acid (7% lower) (Kim et al, 2010).
The amount of vitamins and antioxidants in your lipid barrier also drop as you age.
The concentration of vitamin E and ubiquinone (coenzyme Q10), which together with squalene, play a key role against external oxidative insult, have all been shown to decrease significantly in aging skin (Passi et al, 2003).
Specifically, as you age, your skin makes less:
- lipids
- stearic acid
- palmitic acid
- linoleic acid (n-6)
- vitamin E
- squalene
- ubiquinone (coenzyme Q10)
Fortunately, these beneficial nutrients can be found in plant carrier oils.
Plant carrier oils be extracted from nuts, grains, seeds, fruit and berries.
Face oils that contain plant carrier oils are rich in fatty acids, squalene, vitamins and other beneficial compounds.
Face oils rich in plant carrier oils can infuse your skin with essential nutrients.
Learn more: Face Oils contain Beneficial Nutrients
What are the benefits of a face oil?
Face oils have many benefits for your skin, they can infuse your skin with essential nutrients, soften and condition your skin, strengthen your skin's moisture barrier, soothe your dry skin and protect your skin from daily damage.
There are 5 key benefits of face oils:
- Face oils infuse your skin with nutrients
- Face oils soften and condition your skin
- Face oils strengthen your skin's moisture barrier
- Face oils soothe your dry skin
- Face oils protect your skin
Face oils can have many benefits for your skin depending on their composition.
Learn more: Benefits of Face Oils
How to use a face oil?
Face oils are designed to be used on your face and neck area, but can also be applied to your lips, eye area, chest and hands.
Most face oils can be applied day and night, but it depends on the ingredients in the final formula.
Directions:
- Start with clean hands and face.
- Apply a few drops of face oil into your clean hands.
- Try 2-3 drops to start. You can always add more.
- Gently rub face oil together in your hands and then apply face oil onto your clean face and neck.
- Gently massage into your face and neck until face oil is absorbed.
- All a few minutes for any excess face oil to absorb.
- If you add too much face oil, simply dab off excess with a clean tissue.
- Enjoy your soft, nourished and protected skin.
Face oils are great for all skin types, but especially dry skin.
There are face oils that are created for different skin types and concerns, including dry skin, mature skin, sensitive skin or acne prone skin.
Summary
As you age, several changes in your skin occurs.
Your skin barrier becomes weaker and your skin makes less lipids, fatty acids, vitamins and antioxidants..
Face oils can infuse your skin with essential nutrients and improve your dry skin.
Face oils have many benefits for your skin depending on their formulation.
Face oils can soften your skin, improve the texture of your skin, reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, soothe dry skin and protect your skin from daily damage.
Face oils are great for all skin types, but especially dry skin.
References
Ghadially R, Brown BE, Sequeira-Martin SM, Feingold KR, Elias PM. The aged epidermal permeability barrier. Structural, functional, and lipid biochemical abnormalities in humans and a senescent murine model. J Clin Invest. 1995; 95:2281–90.
Ghadially R, Brown BE, Hanley K, Reed JT, Feingold KR, Elias PM. Decreased epidermal lipid synthesis accounts for altered barrier function in aged mice. J Invest Dermatol. 1996; 106:1064–69.
Kim EJ, Kim MK, Jin XJ, Oh JH, Kim JE, Chung JH. Skin aging and photoaging alter fatty acids composition, including 11,14,17-eicosatrienoic acid, in the epidermis of human skin. J Korean Med Sci. 2010 Jun;25(6):980-3.
Passi S, De Pità O, Grandinetti M, Simotti C, Littarru GP. The combined use of oral and topical lipophilic antioxidants increases their levels both in sebum and stratum corneum. Biofactors. 2003;18(1-4):289-97.
Author Information
Dr. Natasha Ryz is a scientist, skin care expert and an entrepreneur. She is the founder of Dry Skin Love Skincare, and she creates skincare products for beauty, dry skin and pain relief.
Dr. Ryz has a PhD in Experimental Medicine from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and she is a Vanier scholar. She also holds a Master of Science degree and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.
Natasha is the former Chief Science Officer of Zenabis Global, and she oversaw extraction, analytics, and product development. Her team brought 20 products to market including oils, sprays, vapes and softgels.
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