Hey,
I know that you are fond of natural oils and everything that is connected with them. You want to apply them to your scalp, hair, face, body and even feet – which is great! It seems that natural oils are just perfect for improving our physical appearance. To me, using natural oils goes way beyond being just a temporary fad. It’s a kind of a necessity and a must because shortages of EFAs (essential fatty acids) may have really bad consequences for your health, including the skin obviously. Why are they so vital? How can you recognize skin that is deprived of EFAs?
EFAs: Good fatty acids that skin needs
Oxidative stress, toxic exhaust fumes, various types of grime, stress hormones that our body secretes – these contribute to the worsening of our skin. Obviously, there are more environmental stressors that our skin must face up to: solar radiation, air conditioning, the blue light generated by screens (aka HEV)… Believe me or not, but skin has a tough task with dealing and beating these aggressors off. Sadly, when you expose the skin to many of such stressors, it simply starts having problems with neutralizing them. And this is the reason why it needs EFAs. These essential fatty acids don’t only make the skin self-defensive mechanisms stronger. They also help skin to regenerate faster and in a more effective way. Now, I’ll tell you how essential fatty acids work and why they are the most effective when served to your skin in the form of natural oils.
Benefits of EFAs for skin
Here is the list of the most important benefits that EFAs produce when applied to skin. They:
- help skin regenerate faster.
- protect skin against oxidative stress.
- shield from UV and HEV.
- deal with transepidermal water loss.
- take an active part in raising moisture levels in skin.
- control oily skin (deal with seborrhea).
- fix lipid layer of skin.
- improve skin’s texture.
- are able to reduce fine lines.
Natural oils? Naturally, they are the best for your skin!
“There are no better substances to treat skin with than natural oils” – where did this belief come from? Obviously, natural oils offers more than just EFAs (including omega-3, -6 and -9 in various ratio). Studies proved that high quality natural oils also contain vitamins, phytosterols, flavorless and carotenes. Moreover, many natural oils have squalane, which is one of human sebum constituents. This quality makes them so good at controlling this unhealthy shine and taking care of skin in general.
As mentioned at the beginning of my post, natural oils are perfectly suitable to improve face, hair, body and even nails. It was proven that they are able to accelerate hair growth and reduce hair loss, which consequently leads to complete elimination of hair thinning. Little, marvelous geniuses 🙂
Indeed, natural oils differ among themselves therefore it may be problematic to choose the one that will answer your hair and skin needs. I hope I’ll make this task a little bit easier for you when explaining that there are some natural oils that are suitable to almost all skin types and hair types. The most popular one is argan oil that offers the perfect ratio of fatty acids: omega-6 and omega-9. Argan oil improves all kinds of hair and skin, from dry, through acne-prone and mature.
Actually, jojoba oil isn’t far behind argan oil because it contains a high amount of squalane, it offers perfectly-balanced EFAs and at the same time it’s lightweight, absorbs easily and it truly irreplaceable when it comes to day-to-day skin and hair treatments. What I like about jojoba oil most is that it gives you almost all benefits of a natural oil without creating the actual oily feel.
Are you looking for something that would help you grow hair and regenerate fingernails? Try castor oil. There are many things that make it so exceptional like for example the fact that in some way it resembles human keratin. I’m sure that now you know what this means… fabulous hair, strong nails and youthful-looking skin.
Do you use natural oils to improve your physical appearance? Tell me which natural oils are your favorite ones and how you use them. Cheers!
