Do You Need a Facial Oil?

Facial oils offer numerous benefits, including nourishing dry skin, soothing sensitivity, enhancing radiance, strengthening the skin barrier, balancing complexion, boosting hydration, and serving as a lubricant for facial massage.

Do You Need a Facial Oil?

Selecting the right facial oil for your skin type can enhance skin health. Those with dry, mature, or sensitive skin may find facial oils particularly beneficial, especially during winter months when skin tends to be drier.

Facial Oil vs. Moisturizer

While it's not mandatory to use both, combining facial oils with moisturizers can be advantageous, particularly for very dry skin or in colder seasons. Facial oils help seal in moisture but don't hydrate the skin on their own, so it's essential to use them alongside hydrating products.

Hydration vs. Moisturization

• Hydration: Attracts water to the skin.
• Moisturization: Locks in moisture

Oils primarily aid in moisturization by sealing in hydration. 

Application Tips:

• Choose the Right Formula: Mature skin can benefit from oils like plum (one of the best), pomegranate, pumpkin, jojoba, and cranberry. For oily or congested skin, opt for lightweight oils like grapeseed, cranberry, and pomegranate. Sensitive skin may benefit from fragrance-free oils to avoid irritation.
• Proper Application: Warm a few drops between your hands and gently press onto the skin.
• Combine with Moisturizer: Mixing a couple of drops with your moisturizer can enhance hydration.
• Target Dry Areas: Apply oil to specific dry patches as needed.
• Layering: Allow the oil to absorb before applying other products to prevent pilling.
• Frequency: Facial oils can be used daily, preferably in the evening as the final step in your skincare routine.

Incorporating facial oils into your skincare regimen can provide added nourishment and protection, leading to a healthier complexion.

Visit Dancing Dingo for Facial Oils for all skin types.

 

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Kathleen Cumberland is a natural skincare business owner, aromatherapist and business coach.  Her focus is on helping people stay happy and healthy. Check out www.DancingDingo.com

 

Angelico Age-Defying Face Oil + Skin Restructure CO2 Blend

NEW! 

Angelico Age-Defying Face Oil  

+ Skin Restructure CO2 Blend

 

POTENT.  HYDRATING.  DYNAMIC.  NUTRIENT RICH.

 

WHY YOU LIKE IT  

Angelico Age-Defying Face Oil - a concentrated blend of revitalizing botanicals and oils for extremely dry or environmentally distressed skin.  Concentrated precious oils and plant extracts deliver potent doses of vitamins and antioxidants. Skin feels hydrated, rejuvenated and healthy.

 

WHY IT WORKS

• Our Skin Restructure CO2 + Blend is a combination of the three most active CO2 extracts in restorative skin care: Seabuckthorn Fruit, Rosehip Seed and Borage Seed extracts. These three powerhouse CO2's deeply replenish, recover tone and protect skin while combating visible signs of aging.
• A dynamic and nutrient rich blend of oils transform dry skin. Designed to deliver essential fatty acids and emollients while moisturizing with the potent combination of vitamins A, C and E
• Targets moisture loss, lines and wrinkles as well as loss of tone
• Made with 100% natural botanical and essential oils
• Paraben and preservative free

CRUELTY FREE - PARABEN FREE - GLUTEN FREE

NEW! Balancing Act Serum

Help control the effects of oily skin with Dancing Dingo’s new 
Balancing Act Serum
A protective blend of ingredients to nourish, balance and calm skin. It may seem paradoxical, but even oily skin needs moisture in its quest to combat the dreaded ‘over-active oil production cycle’. Take a moment to read our article on this subject. 

Perfect for oily/over active skin, as well as combination skin.

How it works:

• Delivers active ingredients deep into the tissue
• Alpha Lipoic Acid, and Argan Oil, help normalize oil and improve skin tone
• Calendula and Chamomile botanical extracts calm and soothe
• Vitamins C and E offer anti-oxidant protection from environmental stressors

To use: apply a few drops to clean, damp skin after cleansing. For best results, follow with Balancing Act Curative Mist with advanced botanical actives and vitamins for effective pore refinement.  ingredients: oils of; hazelnut, grape seed, coconut, jojoba, olive squalane, argan and vitamin E, alpha lipoic acid, vitamin C, co2 extracts of; german chamomile, calendula and rosemary