The face oil guide for dummies 

Use a face oil in your beauty routine and highly recommended. Thanks to its composition, organic vegetable oil penetrates the skin and provides it with many benefits. But to take advantage of its properties, you still need to know how to use it! How to choose your organic oil? How should it be applied? We give you the best beauty tips for using oils properly.

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Using an organic face oil is not only used to nourish the epidermis, it provides many benefits to the skin. Among its virtues, face oil has protective actions: it serves as a barrier against external aggressions, such as pollution, UV rays, etc. It is also an anti-dehydration product that forms a layer on the surface of the skin and which prevents water from evaporating. Useful for all skin types, it is a real ally in a beauty routine. But to take advantage of all its properties, you still need to know how to use it!

Our tips for using face oil properly

1) choose the right organic oil

• Choose your organic vegetable oil according to your skin type:

All organic oils are not alike, their properties vary according to the different vitamins they contain. You must therefore be attentive to their composition to properly adapt your face oil to your skin. For example, combination to oily/acne skin should pay attention to the comedogenicity index of the oils. Indeed, the more oil is comedogenic, the more it will clog the pores. As combination to oily/acne skin is particularly prone to blemishes, oils with a high comedogenic index could aggravate the situation.

• pay attention to the quality of the oil:

Like other cosmetic products, before choosing your face oil, you must be able to check its quality. This can be confirmed by several mentions.

Virgin oil: This is pure oil, which has not been transformed and to which no product has been added. The oil has only been pressed and filtered.

Cold Pressed: Cold pressing is a method of pressing the fruit or seeds mechanically to extract the oil. This is a method particularly used for organic vegetable oils. unlike essential oils which are obtained by distillation

Organic or Ecocert: the mention of "organic" on a vegetable oil makes it possible to ensure that the plants have been cultivated according to the organic farming scheme, that is to say, that no phytosanitary product has been used to grow the plant.

It is not mandatory to use oil alone, oils can develop great virtues when mixed with other oils or botanical extracts. Some alliances can act in synergy and bring many benefits.

2) Apply your face oil on damp skin

To understand why the oil should be applied to previously cleansed and damp skin, imagine the epidermis as a sponge. If the sponge is dry, it will not soak anything, it must be wet for it to absorb! It's the same for the skin, leaving it moist, it promotes the impregnation of the care, and increases the effectiveness of the oil.

3) Apply a small amount of face oil

Most people who don't use organic oil don't like its texture or fear the greasy finish. This is often because the oil is applied in too large quantities! You don't need to apply a lot of oil for it to be effective. For combination to oily skin, two or three drops maximum will suffice, as for the driest skin they can apply five to six drops.

4) Apply your face oil with the right gesture

It's one of the 10 rules to follow to have perfect skin! It is important to apply your organic oil well, to make it penetrate well and boost microcirculation. The oil is applied by light pressure or by lifting massage. For the most helpful, you can use an accessory like the Gua sha or jade or qwartz roll-on.

5) Reminder: Face oil does not moisturize!

Do not confuse hydration and nutrition! A moisturizing product is aqueous, while a nourishing product is formulated from fatty substances. The face oil is composed of fatty acids, so it nourishes the skin, it is ideal for dry skin, but dehydrated skin lacks water and must therefore turn to moisturizing products (such as creams, gels, or lotions)

This is why, when using face oil, it is important to combine it with a moisturizing serum because the skin needs both. The treatments can be applied in the morning and in the evening, but the oils are particularly appreciated in evening beauty routines, for a relaxing ritual.