Essential oils are a hot topic with those who are embarking on more natural-based lifestyles and who are looking to replace potentially harmful medications and beauty products with natural-based products. However, there is much confusion about utilizing essential plant oils internally or directly on your skin. This is because when most people think about essential oils, they immediately think about aromatherapy! Let’s take a closer look!
What are Essential Oils?
Essential oils are defined as the concentrated extracts of a single plant species. These extracted compounds from the plant are much more concentrated than the plant itself in terms of smell, taste, and even beneficial properties. Essential oils are extracted through two standard methods being water or steam distillation process or through cold press extraction.
Are they Safe to Use on Skin?
While essential oils are highly concentrated, when they are pure and diluted properly, they not only can be utilized safely through internal and topical applications, but they can also offer you and your body a variety of benefits. While some are scared that essential oils can cause complications when applied topically, when they are diluted efficiently and mixed with other natural ingredients that act as carriers for the oils, they are considered quite safe and potentially highly beneficial.
Why are Essential Oils Used Commonly in Skincare Products?
Essential oils are commonly utilized in skincare as well as other health and beauty products for a wide variety of reasons. While some essential oils offer benefits for things such as pain or inflammation in the skin, other oils can help improve the elasticity of your skin while helping to reduce pigmentation while making your skin glow with good health!
The Gold Serum Essential Oil Lineup
When it comes to products that are meant to improve the health of your skin, essential oils can play a vital role when utilized with other natural products such as CBD oil. Let’s take a closer look at some of the essential oils that you can find in the Potency No. 710 Gold Serum and the potential benefits they stand to offer your skin!
Vetiver
Vetiver is a plant native to India and Ceylon, more commonly known as Sri Lanka. This essential oil is often referred to as the “Fragrance of the Soil” or as the “Oil of Tranquility” because it provides a very grounding and calming scent. Vetiver is commonly utilized in skincare products as it is high in natural antioxidant properties and known to increase circulation. This essential oil also contains antispasmodic and immune-enhancing properties. Many often attribute it to its antiseptic properties as well.
Ho Wood
Ho Wood Leaf essential oil holds a potential treasure trove of benefits such as working as an antimicrobial, antiseptic, antidepressant, bactericidal, and as an aphrodisiac. Ho Wood is also believed to offer calming properties, therefore, reducing the stress shown in our skin. Ho Wood, grown in various regions of Taiwan and Japan are high in a terpene known as linalool (also common in cannabis plants). Linalool is a “chemical intermediate” and reacts well with other substances. According to science, this makes it great for helping to stimulate cell growth, which can help stop many skin-related conditions in their tracks!
Blue Tansy
Blue Tansy is a plant that has long grown wild in the Mediterranean. However, today it is grown primarily in Morocco for use in skincare and other health and beauty products. Blue Tansy Flower helps to melt away stress and anxiety with its therapeutic calming attributes. The essential oil of blue tansy flower works as a natural antihistamine, not only helping skin but helping the person in the skin to breathe better too! According to a New York City dermatologist by the name of Dr. Patricia Wexler, Blue Tansy is a potent anti-inflammatory “that helps reduce the appearance of redness and settles irritation,” while calming the skin and mitigating various skin conditions such as eczema and acne.
Rose Oil
Rose Flower and the essential oil of rose holds many different beneficial attributes. This soft sensual pedal is known to help relieve headaches and enhance moods. Its healing properties are said to help scars, burns, and cuts heal faster with less scarring. The essential oil of rose flower contains antioxidant properties that help soothe red and irritated skin. It’s also known to help treat infections as well as prevent further ones from developing in the epidermis.
Frankincense
Holistic healers have utilized Frankincense for centuries. In fact, according to the bible, Jesus received the gift of Frankincense from the three kings. Many believe the Frankincense (gifted as an incense) was used to symbolize his divinity. Frankincense oil is commonly known as the King of Oils. When all else fails, put some Frank on it! This very versatile essential oil offers many potential benefits to your skin.
According to research, the essential oil of Frankincense holds significant potential in relieving dry skin, reducing the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, scars, stretch marks, age spots, and much more. Dr. Rita Linkner, a board-certified dermatologist out of New York; Frankincense essential oils have “natural astringent properties,” meaning that it can help balance the production of oil in your skin while also tightening the skin in appearance and texture. She isn’t alone, either! Many other health professionals believe strongly in the benefits of this essential oil for the overall health of our skin!
“Frankincense benefits include the ability to strengthen skin and improve its tone, elasticity, and defense mechanisms against bacteria or blemishes” – Celebrity Aesthetician Sonya Dakar
Essential Oils of Cannabis – CBD Oil
CBD oil is essentially an essential oil from the cannabis plant species, be it industrial hemp or varieties commonly called “marijuana” that provide psychoactive effects. Research studies like those published in various papers across the NCBI suggest that CBD may be just the thing you need to help maintain youthful, radiant skin. CBD is known to work as a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent.
With oxidation from free radical damage and inflammation being two of the most common underlying issues to skin conditions, it is easy to see how, when combined with essential oils such as those mentioned above, CBD could indeed provide amazing improvements and benefits to the overall health of your skin!