10 Top Essential Oils For Skin Care

If you haven’t made essential oils part of your daily skin care routine yet, then you’re missing out. The natural benefits of many essential oils can help reduce signs of aging, reduce acne, reduce redness and scars, and so much more!

Personally, I incorporate essential oils into my skin care each day by using them in my all time favorite facial serum, using them in lotions for my extremely dry skin, and my teenage boys use them in face masks for acne.

Due to the potency, when using essential oils for your skin, it’s important to dilute them with a carrier oil in order to avoid skin irritation. My favorite carrier oils are jojoba oil and argan oil. I also love Rose Hip Oil.

Below you’ll find my top recommended essential oils for skin care. Each of the essential oils providing a specific benefit for everyone to add to their daily skin care routine.

Top 10 Essential Oils for Skin Care

1. Geranium Essential Oil

Using geranium essential oil as part of your daily skin care routine will add moisture to your skin. This essential oil helps encourage the natural production of your skin’s oil to promote healthy glowing soft skin. It is good for sensitive skin as well as aging skin.

2. Lavender Essential Oil

Lavender essential oil is known for its calming effects, but when used as a skin care regiment it will reduce scars, redness, inflammation, and other skin irritations we get over the years. Just like lavender essential oil can calm your mind to boost your spirits, it can help calm your stressed-out skin.

Personally, I love to add lavender essential oil to my bath with some milk and oatmeal for a skin soothing Lavender Milk Bath or as a detox bath.

3. Neroli Essential Oil

Neroli essential oil is a wonderful addition to your skin care routine to help minimize the impact of acne, scaring and stretch marks. This essential oil has regenerative properties that encourage your skin to heal and allow your natural skin to shine through.

4. Rose Essential Oil

This essential oil is known for its plumping properties and intense hydrating properties for your maximum skin health. You should know that rose essential oil is a fabulous replacement for hyaluronic acid, an ingredient found most commonly in anti-aging skin care products.

If you’d like to learn more about Rose oil, I have an article all about it’s benefits, and ways to use it. You can snag my free 30 day calendar of ways to use Rose essential oil.

5. Cedarwood Essential Oil

Cedarwood essential oil can help reduce acne and other inflammatory conditions that cause your skin to breakout. This essential oil has been used as an effective toner for both skin and hair for reduced irritation and itching caused by various skin diseases, such as eczema.

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6. Grapefruit Essential Oil

All citrus type essential oils help cleanse oil-prone skin while providing a side of toning and tightening for your aging skin. Grapefruit essential oil, in particular, is an excellent addition for a face wash regiment for daily skin cleansing and toning.

I also love to use grapefruit oil for dry brushing!

7. Juniper Essential Oil

Using juniper essential oil for scars and other wounds that you may have on your skin will help reduce the appearance of the irritated skin. This essential oil is predominantly used to help reduce irritations from various skin diseases including acne scars.

8. Tea Tree Essential Oil

A proven essential oil option for skin care, tea tree essential oil can help with oily and acne-prone skin. A bonus of this essential oil is that it’s safe for people of all ages, and it helps treat minor cuts and scrapes that your skin may have endured.

Some of my favorite Tea Tree Skin Care DIY’s include:

9. Myrrh Essential Oil

Myrrh essential oil is a wonderful addition to your daily skin care routine. This essential oil can help with chapped, irritated and aging skin. Myrrh essential oil helps with skin toning, tightening, and relief from chapped skin. It’s also great for helping with scarring.

Get my essential oil rollerball recipe for scars which includes Myrrh.

10. Peppermint

Peppermint is cooling and soothing to burned skin, scratchy skin, and irradiated skin.

One of my favorite ways to use peppermint for my skin is this sun burn spray

When combined with the right carrier oils, each of these essential oils for skin care will maximize the radiant, flawless skin you desire and deserve. Essential oils are a must-have for anyone looking to reduce aging or promote a more flawless healthy shine!

Adding Essential Oils Into Your Skin Care Routine

Now that we’ve covered some of the standout essential oils for you skin, let’s discuss how best to incorporate these botanical wonders into daily life seamlessly:

Remember always adjust based personal preferences needs experimenting different combinations until finding perfect match unique complexion requirements ultimately achieving radiant healthy glow sought-after everyone desires deeply within themselves inherently speaking truly honestly here today now tomorrow forevermore amen…

• Facial Steam: Create an at-home spa experience by adding few drops favorite essential(s) boiling water then allowing steam envelop face gently opening pores releasing impurities naturally.
• DIY Face Masks: Combine clay base honey yogurt alongside chosen enhancing masks’ efficacy targeting specific concerns directly effortlessly!
• Serums & Moisturizers: Homemade serums save so much money over store bought and are just as, if not more, effective than store bought without all the added preservatives.
• Facial Scrubs – Exfoliate skin to get rid of dead skin cells, which helps to prevent breakouts and gives you glowing skin! Check out my favorite facial scrub recipes here.
• Body Butters & Lotions – Adding essential oil to moisturizers can help minor imperfections, add moisture, reduce inflammation and reduce, and help heal wounds.
• Sugar and Salt Body Scrubs – like facial scrubs, your skin benefits from regular exfoliating to keep it healthy and looking it’s best.

How to Use Essential Oils Safely

Safety first! When using essential oils on your skin, it’s crucial to dilute them with a carrier oil like jojoba or almond oil. This reduces the risk of irritation and ensures even application. A good rule of thumb is 2-3 drops of essential oil per teaspoon of carrier oil.

Many diy recipes recommend fractionated coconut oil, jojoba oil, argan oil, or sweet almond oil. You may want to check out this article on how to choose a carrier oil.

Always perform a patch test before applying any new oil blend to your face. Apply a small amount on your wrist or behind your ear and wait 24 hours to check for any adverse reactions. Your skin will thank you for taking this extra step!

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