Best Essential Oils For Anti-Aging Facials

Written by e3 guest blogger: Joni Keim

Joni  has worked in the alternative health and wellness field for over thirty years as an author, practitioner, and educator. She is a licensed aesthetician and has certificates in aromatherapy, wholistic health sciences, and nutrition. Joni researches and writes for e3, provides technical direction for skin care, and assists in product development. Today she’s sharing some information on the best essential oils for anti-aging facials.

My favorite and personal best essential oils for anti-aging facials and skin rejuvenation are:

Single Essential Oils

Frankincense Boswellia carterii
Properties for skin care: Antiseptic, tonic, anti-inflammatory, cytophylactic (encourages new cell growth).
Generally revitalizes, calms, and soothes. Good for all skin types, especially mature.

Lavender Lavandula angustifolia
Properties for skin care: Antiseptic, cytophylactic (encourages new cell growth), anti-inflammatory.
Generally revitalizes, refreshes, and calms. Good for all skin types, especially mature and combination.

Neroli Citrus aurantium
Properties for skin care: Antiseptic, cytophylactic (encourages new cell growth), emollient, tonic.
Generally revitalizes, balances, and soothes. Good for all skin types, especially mature and sensitive.

Rose Rosa damascena
Properties for skin care: Antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, astringent, tonic.
Generally calms and soothes. Good for all skin types, especially sensitive.

Sandalwood Santalum album
Properties for skin care: Antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, astringent, emollient, tonic.
Generally strengthening and calming. Good for all skin types, especially mature and sensitive.

e3 Synergy Blends

Skin Care Blend – Revitalizes, calms, and soothes. Good for all skin types.
Ingredients:
Carrot Seed: Dry skin, sun-damaged skin, mature skin, devitalized skin, eczema, scars, calluses, rashes, burns, couperose, rosacea, skin tonic.
Frankincense: Wrinkles, dry skin, mature skin, scars, inflammation, small wounds, infections, skin tonic.
Lavender: Imbalanced oil production, small wounds, bruises, burns, sunburn, insect bites and stings, infections, irritations, itching, blemishes, eczema, skin tonic.
Orange, Sweet: Dull skin, oily skin, puff y skin, dry skin, wrinkles, rough skin, poor circulation, infections, skin tonic.
Sandalwood: Dry skin, mature skin, sensitive skin, rough skin, devitalized skin, oily skin, blemishes, eczema, itching, chapped skin, inflammation, infection, small wounds, skin tonic.
Ylang Ylang, Extra: Imbalanced oil production, dry skin, oily skin, mature skin, inflammation, itching, skin tonic.

Female Harmony – Revitalizes, calms, and soothes. Good for all skin types, especially oily skin.
Ingredients:
Chamomile, Roman: Soothes inflammation, rashes, acne, sunburn, itching
Clary Sage: Oily skin, blemishes
Geranium: Skin tonic, supports balanced oil production
Palmarosa: Supports balancing and soothing dry & devitalized skin
Rose: Beneficial for mature, dry and sensitive skin
Sandalwood: Beneficial for mature, dry or oily, sensitive, devitalized or rough skin

That’s quite a list isn’t it? How can you determine the best essential oils for anti-aging facials for yourself? Our free eBook, Listen to Your Nose – An Introduction to Aromatherapy, gives you some very helpful guidelines. If you haven’t downloaded a copy yet, please take the time and do so right now. The title alone gives you a really good piece of advice…

Methods of Application

Compress, Facial: Fill the sink with warm water. Add 1-3 drops of essential oil in the water and agitate the water to mix well. Lay in a clean washcloth, wring, and apply to face, with eyes closed, holding in place for 5-10 seconds. Repeat dipping, wringing, and applying—3 times. Pat dry.

Facial Oil: Mix 2-5 drops of essential oil in 1 ounce of carrier such as jojoba, olive oil, or rose hip seed oil.

Skin Mist: Mix 10-40 drops of essential oil in 4 ounces of water in a mister bottle. Shake well before each use and avoid getting it into the eyes.