Essential Oils For Your Health And Beauty. Lyudmila Ananieva

       General characteristic

      Essential oils are smells, not simply salutary for mood and health, also unique medicinal properties are inherent in them, they increase resistance of an organism to adverse factors of the external environment, such as carcinogens, useful for prophylactics of diseases, optimization of the air environment, increasing resistance of the organism to adverse environmental factors and so forth.

      Essential oils — substances very concentrated. Therefore in the pure form, they are almost not applied. Exceptions make only oil of a lavender and tea tree.

      All other essential oils surely must be dissolved in express basis solvent — vegetable oil (olive, almond, avocado, grape seeds and so forth, they prolong action of essential oils as sluggishly evaporate on air), milk, yogurt, alcohol, shampoos, balm, cream. It is also possible to mix them with salt.

      As a basis solvent milk, cream, yogurt, and also honey, wine or vodka are used.

      Essential oils are of great interest for cosmetology. By means of vegetable/fruit oils is possible to solve a set of dermatological problems. The most various cosmetology procedures are carried out with use of essential oils since they make a bactericidal impact and positive influence on skin, hair, nails condition.

      Skin needs more moistening and nutrition with age. And also protection against influence of the sun, wind, frost. It is better to switch gradually to natural essential oils for the care of facial skin and body, and at the same time, they can be useful for prophylactics of various diseases.

      There are such properties of essential oils as anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, clearing, moistening, softening and others and successfully are used for centuries in a cosmetology.

      For dry skin use essential oils of lavender, geranium, rose, ylang-ylang, fennel, rosemary, marjoram, jasmine, santal and pink tree in combination with basic oils.

      Basic dry skin oils: macadamia, jojoba, almond. Oil from kernels of apricot stones and peach.

      For normal skin it is possible to use essential oils of lavender, geranium, rose, lemon in combination with basic oils.

      Basic normal skin oils: macadamia oil, jojoba, almond, oil from kernels of apricot, grape and peach seeds.

      Essential oils for oily skin: bergamot, orange, vetiver, grapefruit, geranium, lemon, lavender, ylang-ylang, cypress, juniper, cedar.

      Basic oily skin oils: grape seeds oils, almond, apricot and peach kernels. These oils in combination with essential oils normalize fatty balance of the skin.

      Determining your skin type:

      Cosmetologists determine 5 main skin types: normal, dry, oily, combination, sensitive. The difference between one type from another is that how much is intensive sebaceous glands secrete sebum, and on what areas of the face are the most active.Also, much depends on inherited skin's ability to retain moisture.

      How to determine your skin type?

      1.To determine the type of skin, first it must be thoroughly cleaned, no makeup.

      2.Let skin rest for a few hours without makeup.

      3.After that, carefully examine the skin in daylight with a simple, but well enhancing mirror. What you will see can serve as a guide of the selection