In addition to a day cream and a night cream, the oil-based facial serums are today one of the beauty essentials for taking care of the skin daily.
Very nourishing and often waterlogged, oil-based facial serums for skincare aim to nourish the skin while making it suppler, smoother and soothed. How to choose the right moisturizing serum and use it well?
Serums are lightweight.
In terms of texture, the serum is naturally lighter than a cream: it is similar to a fluid or a fairly liquid product. The challenge is not to make your face a greasy toast, but that the layers of products can be absorbed well, which explains why a serum is necessarily more fluid than a cream.
A serum is a more concentrated treatment than a cream. You must therefore put it on when you are looking for a very specific action. For example, for very dehydrated but shiny skin, a hydrating serum will deeply hydrate the skin while keeping a cream for the day.
Oil-based serums are particularly interesting for their intense action on certain skin disorders such as dehydration, imperfections, or even to fight against the signs of aging. And contrary to what one might think, they adapt to all skin types, even mixed or oily. Discover our selection of treatments with a well-oiled mechanism.
The effect of oily serums
To varying degrees, these facial serums for skincare have an affinity with the component of the skin. First of all the famous surface, but also the slightly deeper cells of the skin which bathe in a fatty medium, which one called an intercellular area. The different oils therefore not limited to a surface effect. But penetrate and strengthen all the components of the skin. They thus accentuate the barrier function of the various layers of the skin which thus retain water much better. Besides, their significant penetration takes the active ingredients deeper to act better and faster, where silicones and mineral oils remain on the surface. Besides, vegetable oils by nature very concentrated in anti-ageing active ingredients.
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How do apply these light-weight oil-based serums?
Unlike their counterparts, oil-based facial serums for skincare are much more versatile and withstand many more different uses. First, they can work on their own and improve their skin tone. They can use after a moisturizer, thus keeping the water provided by the cream in the skin. You can also add a drop of oily serum in your day or night cream or your aqueous moisturizing serum. In any case, very little oily serum should use (no more than three or four drops) for the whole face and neck. A single drop will be more than enough if you mix it with your cream.
Despite all their qualities, the various facial serums for skin care do not work on all skin types. The skin saturates, becomes dull, the pores dilate, imperfections appear, and the skin dehydrated and seems to suffocate. Even though it may be prone to an inflammatory reaction and dark spots. In this case, we can try to use oily serums rich in omega3, precisely anti-inflammatory. Serums made from oil often result in less inconvenience, but they may not work either. If there are still no results and in the case of the manifestations mentioned above. Better to return to serums where water is used.
Serums based on unmodified oils
This type of facial serums for skincare only contains pure oils. They are the favourites of organic enthusiasts. The vegetable oils present in their making without having been transformed by a chemical process. They, therefore, provide the skin with all their properties.
Choose your serum according to what you want to treat.
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