Natural Skin care is caring for your skin using natural ingredients such as essential oils, herbs, flowers, and roots and are combined with naturally occurring carrier agents, humectants, preservatives, emulsifiers, and surfacants.  Synthetic chemicals are never used. Natural skin care has been around since 4000 BC in China and the middle east.  It is believed that Egyptians created many skin care treatments for various conditions.

There are many ingredients in natural skin care that help your body including safflower oil, shea butter, jojoba, rose hip seed, witch hazel, tea tree oil, beeswax, aloe vera, and chamomile.  They can be tailored specifically to any person’s skin type or skin condition.  Some examples include:

Safflower – highly branched, herbaceous, thistle-like annual, usually with many long sharp spines on the leaves.  Safflower can rejuvenate dry skin.  It contains essential fatty acids such as linoleic acide which can nourish and smooth damaged skin and hold onto moisture better.  It is suitable for acne prone skin.

Shea butter – derived from the kernel of the Karite tree.  It is known to help moisturize the skin.

Jojoba – A natural moisturizer.  The skin recognizes Jojoba’s molecules as its own and deeply penetrates and softens the skin.  It also mixes with skin sebum and goes down to the skin cells and skin matrix levels dissolving dried skin, destroying bacteria, and creating a moisturizing barrier that allows the transfer of gases and nutrients but will hold moisture in.

Rose hip seed – seeds that are often extracted from a rose bush.  Rose hip revitalizes your skin.  It reduces wrinkles and signs of premature aging.  It also improves surgical and accidental scars, and restores natural skin color.

Witch Hazel – Witch hazel has many benefits to the skin including healing of bruises, sunburns, inflammation of the skin, poison ivy, poison oak, insect bites and stings, bedsores, diaper rash, and eczema.

Tee tree oil - extracted from the Australian paperback tree.  There are almost 300 varieties of the tree tree, but only one produces medicinal oil.  Tea tree oil can be used to treat acne, cuts and abrasions, help ease skin burns, as well as a wide variety of other healing uses.

Beeswax – natural wax produced in the bee hive of honey bees.  Beeswax has wax esthers that exist in human skin.  It increases skin essential moisture.

Aloe vera – Aloe vera is a species of succulent plant. Aloe Vera skin sooth skin injured by burns, cuts, insect bites, and other irritations.  It can also moisturize and soften the skin.

Chamomile – A flower in the daisy family and recognized as a natural healing treatment that helps rejuvenate the skin.  Chamomile has antiseptic, anti-itching, and bactericidal properties which help refresh the skin and reduce swelling.