Essential Oils for Winter and Holiday Skin Care

What are the best essential oils and natural botanicals to protect from the damage to skin that winter brings? You want protection from cold, crisp, dry winter air and dehydrating household heating. Here are some great and effective healthy anti-aging and regenerative essential oils and botanicals that help you prepare for holiday and harsh weather skin care.

Essential oils are holistic skin care

There are many nutrients, vegetable and fruit oils, and other botanical ingredients that will deliver potent defense from winter's hazards along with regenerating and supporting youthful, healthy skin. Essential oils are the therapeutic icing on the already beneficial botanical cake - or cream, or serum. They are an addition to your skin care regimen that offers enhanced and specific healing and defensive activity. The beauty of essential oils in skin care is their holistic ability to treat symptoms, damage and the condition of the skin simultaneously with the emotional factors that may be directly responsible for imbalanced skin conditions.

Essential oils for winter protection

Winter skin needs some added protection. You'll get this from the more viscous (thicker) and resinous oils. Theses oils are a first choice for therapeutic skin conditioning properties. Good regenerative essential oils, that are anti-aging and provide solid protection from environmental damage are:

Carrot Seed (Daucus carota)

Atlas Cedarwood (Cerdus atlantica)

Cistus (Cistus ladaniferus)

Copaiba (Copaifera officinalis)

Frankincense CO2 Extract (Boswellia carterii)

Helichrysum (Helichrysum italicum)

Corsican Helichrysum

Myrrh (Commiphora myrrha)

Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin)

Rose (Rosa damascena)

Sandalwood (Santalum album)

Turmeric (Curcuma longa)

Vetiver (Vetiveria zizanioides)

Don’t forget to include the best cell regenerative essential oils

Healthy regeneration of skin cells is a good thing no matter what season you're in. Essential oils have something to offer in the category of regeneration of damaged, aging, compromised, irritated and/or sensitive skin. Helichrysum is the usual choice in this skin revitalizing function. Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) chemo-type verbenone, palmarosa (Cymbopogon martini), and Eucalyptus dives also have beneficial regenerative action.

Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), geranium (Pelargonium graveolens) and Cape snowbush (Eriocephalus africanus) have full spectrum skin protective and conditioning properties. These oils also provide the stress relief beneficial to any skin care system.

Rose - queen or king or supreme being of all oils - is not only a superior skin regenerative oil, it is antimicrobial and wrinkle reducing with stress relieving and emotionally balancing activity. Rose is well worth the high cost and is quite effective in lower concentration.

Less stress, better skin

The holiday and winter season can be a time of great stress for some, which will give the skin an irritated, sensitive appearance or cause breakouts. Not the best thing when so many photos are being taken of you with family and friends. Cape chamomile (Eriocephalus Punctulatus) is a beautiful skin conditioning essential oil that is dramatically anti-stress, anti-anxiety and an anti-inflammatory. Other essential oils that combine great skin tone with stress and anxiety relieving properties are clary sage (Salvia sclarea), Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile), neroli (Citrus Aurantium), and ylang ylang (Canaga odorata).

Botanical ingredients for protection and skin perfection

For exceptional skin treatments of all types, essential oils are therapeutically and artistically blended into a nutritive and synergistic healing combination of botanical vegetable and fruit oils, herbal extracts and other skin conditioning and protective ingredients. Combining essential oils and botanical ingredients is a creative scientific practice that, when mastered, has extreme beautifying and healing results for skin. When it comes to winterizing your skin care routine, these botanicals offer the antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and lipid barrier protection required:

Cocoa butter

Mango butter

Shea butter

Argan oil

Blackberry seed oil

Calophyllum oil

Rosehip seed oil

Sea buckthorn berry oil

Sandalwood seed CO2 extract

Sunflower seed oil

Coenzyme Q10

Green tea extract

Lecithin

Niacinamide (vitamin B3)

Add your choice of essential oils to our therapeutic, conditioning and protective moisturizing base, Natural Scent Face Cream