Recently, there has been a growing interest in vegetable oils: on their own or as part of a blend of restorative oils, vegetable oils are carving out an important place in our beauty routines. If they are great emollients emollients for the skin, they also contain active ingredients and vitamins that justify their use. So how do you know which vegetable oil is right for you? How to avoid comedogenic oils?
What is a vegetable oil?
We can already differentiate between two types of plant oils: essential oils and vegetable oils. essential oils and oils extracted from seeds, fruit pulp or nuts.. These two types of oils are found in day creams for two different reasons. Essential oils contribute to thesensory experience of the product, while vegetable oils will thicken the cream and provide the skin with necessary lipids.
Which plant oil is right for oily, acne-prone skin?
Contrary to popular belief, oily skin with a tendency to acne can benefit from the advantages of plant oils. The difficulty lies in choosing the right plant oil. Pure coconut oil, for example, is comedogenic: it clogs pores and accentuates acne. If, on the other hand properly formulated in a Appointment face, it reveals all its benefits: soothing, nourishing, gentle and effective at dissolving make-up, for example. That's why it's in our make-up remover oil !
For vegetable oils to leave on the skin, we recommend two: squalene extracted from olives, makes up ¼ of our natural sebum. Jojoba oil also has a composition almost similar to our skin's natural sebum. These two oils, because of their resemblance to our natural lipids, are easily absorbed and calm sebum production.
In fact, if we add oil to the skin, it lowers its natural sebum production to compensate. The same principle applies tohazelnut oil and its sebum-regulating action. Perfect for applying at night to control shine in the morning!
What are the different vegetable oils?
Nourishing, soothing, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial or even anti-aging, vegetable oils are rich in essential fatty acids and interesting active ingredients. Among the vegetable oils we use, you'll find, to give just a few examples:
- Avocado oil is rich in antioxidants, vitamin E, carotenoids, linoleic and oleic acids. Oleic acid is the most abundant omega-9 in our bodies, for its ability to soften and smooth our skin. Thick, it's the perfect oil for protecting and nourishing the skin. You'll find it in our eye contour creameye contour cream night oil or our eye shadows.
- Apricot oil is rich in antioxidants vitamin E and A and oleic acid. It's the perfect oil to give your skin a radiant glow. It's the key ingredient in our healthy-glow cream !
- Squalene is a biomimetic oil extracted from olives: it naturally makes up ¼ of our sebum. This makes it the perfect oil for oily skin or for skin barriers damaged skin barriers. This oil is used in most of our products.
- Tea tree essential oil is present in our imperfections range antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, it prevents pimples and reduces the intensity of acne.
Focus on night oil
A 100% natural botanical concentrate, thenight oil combines 14 plant extracts, including numerous plant oils. It provides the essential fatty acids your skin needs to regenerate itself at night.
In the majority of cases jojoba oil nourishes the skin and is suitable for oily skin. Night oil containsavocado oil and oat kernel oil to soothe and repair the skin. To complete its repairing action, we've addedsea buckthorn oil and moringa oil.
7 times out of stock, this best-seller then targets cell renewal: hazelnut oil hazelnut oil, from cameline and linseed oil soften and smooth the skin. White fir silver fir and rose hip tone the skin.
