Thursday, 20 March 2014

Lusts and Musts: Cleansing Oils

 
 
 
Hitting beauty counters with high impact are oil cleansers, which are essentially oils that are meant to clean your face.  You heard right! No longer are we supposed to pine for the bubbling foaming delightfulness that our traditional cleansers bring us, we are to look to the oil to clean our precious faces.  My FAVORITE on the market right now is Josie Maran’s Cleansing Oil, found here: Josie Maran Cleansing Oil .  I love all of her products because of their key ingredient: Argan Oil, more on that in my other blog post here: My Face My Argan.  It also contains other oils that are beneficial to the skin, such as grape seed and olive oils that have a high Vitamin E content, perfect for anti-aging and hydration and grapefruit seed oil, which also contributes to its light citrus scent, perfect for morning face washing!  The key to cleansing oils is that you are not stripping your face of your natural oils, so it is great for all skin types.  Yes even oily skin types, like me, can benefit from cleansing oils.  By washing your face with the oil, you are sealing in all the moisture, thus not forcing your skin’s oil glands to produce an excess amount of oil, makes sense right?
You will not, and I mean not, experience the suds and bubbles you get with your traditional face wash, so it will take time to get used to, you may get a slight milky emulsification, but trust that after your first use you will be hooked!  When looking for a facial oil that’s right for you try to find one that has as little additives as possible, like Josie Maran’s, which only has 2 chemical additives for preservation because most oils used have a short shelf life.  Be sure that you don’t have nut allergies as often companies will use nut oils as their main oil ingredient, so read the labels!
 
I hope you love cleansing oils as much as I do!

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