Along with tea tree oil, lavender oil is perhaps the most popular essential oil for skincare, and for good reason. It’s most popular for fragrances in perfumes, and pouring into your bathtub and reducing stress while you bathe, but for acne, lavender oil has two key powers. Firstly, lavender oil strongly suppresses pro-inflammatory immune system […]
Jojoba oil, an old favourite of Native Americans for wound healing and even used by the Allies for defeating the Nazis, is one of the best natural moisturisers an acne patient could use. Jojoba oil is proven to massively increase moisture levels in the skin, with a big improvement persisting for 24 hours. Specifically, jojoba oil can decrease
Shea butter is one of the most ancient natural moisturisers in Ghana, Uganda, and Chad, and it’s now extremely popular in the West. This yellow to white fat is simply the fat from the nut of the Vitellaria paradoxa or shea tree found across Africa. As a moisturiser, shea butter is uniquely effective, shown to
Tea tree oil has long been a popular natural remedy for acne, ever since early European explorers reached the shores of Australia and were told the secret by the native Aborigines. The truth? The old tales are completely correct. Tea tree oil reduces acne bacteria, propionibacterium acnes, more effectively than almost all essential oils. Tea
Argan oil is a promising tropical treatment derived from the argan nut of the argan tree, in the South Western plains of Morocco. Local Berber women have used the oil for sun protection and skin tone for millennia, and the powers for acne are very real. Argan oil is among the richest oils in vitamin
