Reset Your Skin Series

We’ve created this 4-part series with the intention of supporting your skin in regaining its equilibrium. We share 4 simple, organic skincare products for you to make. They encourage your skin’s inherent intelligence to restore balance.

For a week, consider stepping away from your usual skin care products and immersing yourself in this nourishing, gentle line. It’s about more than skincare; it’s a chance to rest, to revel in the purity of simple ingredients, and to lavish your skin with care. We’re interested in your skin care reset experience, share it with us by tagging us @theformulatorslab.

This is a 4-part series that includes how to Make a Simple Organic Skincare Line to use to reset your skin.

Part 1: Formulate for Skin Type
Part 2: Joan’s Top Plant Oils for Skin
Part 3: Joan’s Top Essential Oils for Skin
Part 4: Make 4 Simple Skincare Products

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You can make your own highly effective organic skincare line using plant oils, herbs, grains, hydrosols, herbal extracts, and essential oils. Knowing your skin type will help you to customize your products. The skin on the face needs special care. It is rarely covered with clothing and is always exposed to the elements; sun, wind, heat, cold, dust, and smoke.

Our skin is intelligent. It knows how to care for itself. All we need to do is allow and support it to do its job, to protect, release, and renew. Nurturing plant-based ingredients and products nourish and support our skin.

Formulate For Skin Type

Most people misdiagnose their skin type. Our skin is always changing and so is our skin type. The first step is to understand your skin. Your skin is unique to only you. Pay attention to your skin and what it is telling you. Listen to your skin. You and your skin are the authority and knows best; not the magazines or cosmetic companies. Listen to your body for the foods to eat that are best for your body and your skin. When you feed your body nutritious and fresh food, you will have vibrant skin.  

What is Your Skin Type?

Most people misdiagnose their skin type. The first step is to understand your skin. Your skin is unique to you. Pay attention to your skin and what it is showing you.

Normal Skin

-Balanced with the oil and moisture evenly distributed

-Firm, vibrant, supple, and blemish-free, even skin tone, color and texture with normal size pores

-Tends to be free of lines and wrinkles

-Few people have normal skin

-Essential oils assist maintaining normal skin

-Essential oils for normal skin: most essential oils for skin care

Dry Skin

–Does not produce enough oil

-Usually feels tight, dry and looks tired and dull with fine lines

-Pores are unseen to very small

-Dehydrated skin may be confused with dry skin, the difference is that dehydrated skin has oil but lacks in moisture and looks parched, the skin does not hold onto the moisture

-Dry and dehydrated skin may be sensitive, unless cared for the skin tends to wrinkle prematurely

-Essential oils assist to balance dry skin and encourage oil production, use essential oils that are balancing, moisture enhancing, regulating and toning

-Essential oils for dry skin: frankincense, lavender, rose geranium, palmarosa, ylang ylang, Roman chamomile

Oily Skin

-Produces too much oil from over stimulated glands

-It can be greasy with blemishes that may be infected, contain large and clogged pores with blackheads

-It looks shiny and the texture is usually thick

-It can become more severe if overly-cleansed with harsh cleansers that remove the natural oils as this transmits a message to the glands to make more oil to protect the skin’s surface

-Does not wrinkle as quickly as other skin types

-Essential oils assist with balancing the oil and reducing bacteria, use essential oils that are balancing, anti-bacterial, toning and astringent

-Essential oils for oily skin: cypress, frankincense, rose geranium, lavender, mandarin, palmarosa, ylang ylang

Combination Skin

-Functions differently in various areas of the face, tends to be dry around the mouth, the cheeks and the eyes and oily in the area of the forehead and the nose

-Should be cared for as two separate skin types; dry and oily

-Essential oils can be used to customize skin care products to address each area and bring balance to this skin type

-Use essential oils that regulate, balance and are suggested for dry and oily skin

-Essential oils for combination skin: refer to essential oils for oily and dry skin types

Sensitive Skin

–Reacts to allergens, detergents, preservatives, chemical irritants, specific ingredients, the sun, stress, air conditioning, heating and fluctuation in hormones

-May become extremely sensitized that even the slightest stimuli will cause a reaction

-Sensitive skin is increasing in more people

-Essential oils assist to soothe and calm the skin, use essential oils that are relaxing, soothing and calming

-Essential oils for sensitive skin: do a skin test first on the inside of the elbow with the essential oil diluted in a plant oil and use a very small amount, no more than 0.25%; try lavender, Roman chamomile

Mature Skin also called Aging Skin

–May show sun damage with fine lines and wrinkles starting to form on the face

-May appear to lack vibrancy and moisture and show signs of pigmentation (discoloration- brown spots) and sagging and show broken capillaries also called couperose skin

-Couperose skin contains tiny dilated capillaries around the nose, cheeks and is usually dry, thin and delicate and is aggravated with extreme temperatures

-Essential oils assist to reduce and slow down the aging of the skin, use essential oils that are rejuvenating, moisture enhancing, wrinkle reducing, anti-inflammatory and promote elasticity

-Essential oils for mature skin: frankincense, rose geranium, palmarosa, Roman chamomile

Acne

-Can happen at any age and with any skin type and may appear at times when the hormones are fluctuating the most; puberty, pregnancy, menstruation, ovulation or peri-menopause, can also be related to other events happening in the body

-Usually the skin has excess oil; this may cause pores to become clogged; the overabundance of oil attracts bacteria that can cause infection and inflammation

-Essential oils assist to balance the excess oil, prevent infection, balance hormones and reduce stress, use essential oils that are soothing, antiseptic, anti-bacterial, hormone balancing and anti-inflammatory

-Essential oils for acne: cypress, rose geranium, lavender, mandarin

Eczema and Psoriasis

-Conditions that need to be addressed with an evaluation by a wellness care professional addressing the immune system, food allergies and family history of asthma, eczema and psoriasis, usually triggered by stress

-Essential oils assist to soothe the itching, weeping and dryness of the skin and reduction of stress, use essential oils that are relaxing, soothing, calming and anti-inflammatory

Essential oils for eczema and psoriasis to calm and soothe: Roman chamomile, mandarin, lavender

Interested to keep learning about skin care and formulating skin care products?

Expand your skin knowledge on formulating for skin types in the Professional Natural Skin Care Course.