Intensive Skin Care™

All Natural, 100% Pure, Blended Essential Oils

Start Now: If you are young, it's time to start. The sooner you start caring for your skin the more your skin will retain a healthy, youthful appearance in the future. But, it is never too late to start caring for your skin.

The 3 S's: The three worst things for skin are sun, soap and smoking. In addition to avoiding those things, you should keep your skin properly moisturized. If you avoid these few things and moisturize, your skin will look better, longer.

The 3 minute rule: After bathing, showering or cleansing, apply a moisturizer like Original Facial Revitalizer or Original Body Conditioner. You can use petroleum jelly. Just use something within 3 minutes of getting out of the shower or bath to help prevent the moisture from evaporating from you skin.

Hydrate from the inside out: Drink water all day long. This is the simplest, most natural and inexpensive thing you can do for your skin and body.

Interesting skin care related links:

• American Academy of Dermatology - Public Resources
  • SkinCarePhysicians.com (AAD)
  • AgingSkinNet
• HealthAndAge.com Skin Problems Center
  • HealthAndAge.com Getting Control of Acne
• HealthFinder.gov Information for consumers. Search for skin care topics.
• Discovery Health Channel Skin Care Center
• The Merck Manual -- Second Home Edition, Section 18 - Skin Disorders
• WebMD Skin & Beauty Center - Beauty Basics (commercial site with ads)
  • Natural Skin Care Treatments
  • Myth vs. Reality on Anti-Aging Vitamins
  • Overview of The Skin
  • Protecting Your Skin With Preventive Skin Care
  • Effects of Aging on Skin
  • Wrinkles
  • Sun Exposure and Skin Cancer
  • Choosing Skin Care Products: Step 1: Assess Your Skin Type
  • Choosing Skin Care Products: Step 2: Know Your Ingredients
  • Treating Aging Skin
  • Skin Care for Acne-Prone Skin
  • Skin Care for Mature Skin
  • Skin Care for Dry Skin
• WebMD Skin & Beauty Center - Skin Problems & Treatments (commercial, ads)
  • Acne Vulgaris
  • Care of your skin when you have diabetes
  • Fungal Nail Infections
  • Hives
  • Ringworm of the Skin
• Johns Hopkins University Dermatlas: Dermatology Image Atlas
• Morehead Memorial Hospital - Well Connected Health Information
  • Aging Process and Wrinkles
  • Vitamins, Carotenoids, and Phytochemicals
  • Aging Skin: Blemishes and Nonmelonoma Skin Cancers
  • The Skin, Melanocytes, and Melanoma
  • General Definition of Psoriasis
  • Scleroderma
  • Herpes Simplex
• Contact Dermatitis

Essential oils have been used by humans for thousands of years. Interestingly, what is believed to be ancient herbal distillation equipment was identified in a museum in Taxila, Pakistan and has been dated back to 3000 BC. Essential oils are derived from botanical sources. They are usually created by a process called steam distillation where steam is infused into a chamber with the plant material (biomass) inside. The steam is then condensed and the water separated from the essential oil. Essential oils are distilled from select parts such as leaves, petals, bark, wood chips, or fruit rinds. Other methods of extraction include solvent extraction, cold pressing and CO2 extraction. The essential oils contain the chemicals from the plant material they are extracted from, but in a much higher concentration. Each essential oil contains dozens component chemicals.

Interesting essential oil related links:

• Herbal Research Foundation
• American Botanical Council
• HerbMed
• National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA)
• International Aromatherapists & Tutors Association

Green Leaf Essentials™

Most commercially available essential oils are too concentrated to use undiluted on your skin (neat application). They would irritate the skin, and, in many cases, the aroma would be overpowering. We balance the essential oils with carrier oils. The carrier oils we choose provide additional benefits for skin.

Essential oils applied to the skin are absorbed and carrier oils, such as grape seed and jojoba, assist in absorption. Vegetable oils, such as evening primrose, avocado, hazelnut, macadamia nut, apricot, borage, and sweet almond oil provide vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids (EFA) and occlusive moisturizing action. Wheat germ oil is high in vitamin E (tocopherol and tocotrienol) and acts as a natural preservative. We do not use chemical preservatives or additives.

In the past decade, essential oils have been showing up in almost every personal care product. However, essential oils, which are very expensive ingredients, are typically added to existing base products in very low concentrations and relabeled as being "herbal", "essential", "botanical", "natural", "aromatherapy", "therapeutic", or promoting one or two well known extracts such as lavender, chamomile or tea tree. Sometimes other companies use extracts that are not from the recognized, essential oil producing species but are of the same family as the species that true essential oils are extracted. Sometimes they use "fortified" essential oils which have been adulterated by boosting one component chemical in the oil. This is probably done due to the expense of real essential oils and at the expense of the consumer.

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The essential oil ingredients we use have a variety of beneficial properties for skin care. However, some have a very strong aroma. We balance the aromas with other aromatic essential oils that are chosen for their additional skin care benefits. Finally, we add carrier oils which provide more skin care benefits and reduce the concentration of essential oils to levels that will allow for safe, daily applications. In our "Ultra" formulas, we use more vegetable oils to reduce the absorption rate, provide more occlusive moisturizing and add even more vitamins and minerals.

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