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Pure Nature Serum For Spots

Face oil with oils and herbal extracts. Ideal for skin with freckles, spots and discolorations.

Uploaded by: stavrosglyfada on 03/07/2021

Ingredients overview

Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil, Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil, Boswellia Carterii Resin Extract, Pelargonium Graveolens Extract, Lavandula Angustifolia Herb Extract, Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Extract, Rosa Centifolia Extract, Citrus Limon Flower Extract, Citrus Paradisi Fruit Extract, Calendula Officinalis Extract

Warning: This ingredient list seems to miss preservatives necessary for creating safe products. Read here for more detail.

Highlights

Key Ingredients

Antioxidant: Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil, Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil, Calendula Officinalis Extract

Soothing: Calendula Officinalis Extract

Skim through

Ingredient name	what-it-does	irr., com.	ID-Rating
Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil	emollient	0, 1-3	goodie
Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil	antioxidant, emollient		goodie
Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil	antioxidant, emollient		goodie
Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil	emollient	0, 0-2	goodie
Boswellia Carterii Resin Extract
Pelargonium Graveolens Extract
Lavandula Angustifolia Herb Extract	perfuming
Melaleuca Alternifolia Leaf Extract	antimicrobial/antibacterial, perfuming
Rosa Centifolia Extract
Citrus Limon Flower Extract
Citrus Paradisi Fruit Extract
Calendula Officinalis Extract	soothing, antioxidant		goodie

La vie en rose Pure Nature Serum For Spots
Ingredients explained

Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil - goodie

Also-called: Sweet Almond Oil | What-it-does: emollient | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 1-3

The emollient plant oil that comes from almonds. Similar to other plant oils, it is loaded with skin-nourishing fatty acids (oleic acid - 55-86% and linoleic acid 7-35%) and contains several other skin goodies such as antioxidant vitamin E and vitamin B versions.

It's a nice, basic oil that is often used due to its great smoothing, softening and moisturizing properties. It's also particularly good at treating dry brittle nails (source).

Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil - goodie

Also-called: Grape Seed Oil | What-it-does: antioxidant, emollient

A goodie plant oil coming from the polyphenol-rich seeds of the grape. It's a light emollient oil that makes your skin feel smooth and nice and also contains a bunch of good-for-the-skin stuff. It's a great source of antioxidant polyphenols, barrier repair fatty acid linoleic acid (about 55-77%, while oleic acid is about 12-27%) and antioxidant, skin-protectant vitamin E.

Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil - goodie

Also-called: Argan Oil | What-it-does: antioxidant, emollient

When it comes to cosmetic oils and hype, argan oil is for sure leading the way. Dubbed as the "liquid gold of Morocco", we have to admit we have some trouble determining why this oil enjoys such a special miracle status. Not that it's not good, it is good, even great but reading the research about argan and a bunch of other plant oils we just do not see the big, unique differentiating factor (though that might be our fault not reading enough, obvs.)

So, argan oil comes from the kernel of the argan fruit that comes from the argan tree that grows only in Morocco. The tree is slow growing and getting the oil is a hard job. The traditional process is that the ripe argan fruits fall from the tree, then goats eat them up and poop out the seeds. The seeds are collected and smashed with a stone to get the kernels inside. This part is the hard one as the seeds have extremely hard shells. Once the kernels are obtained, the oil is pressed out from them (the kernels contain about 50% oil).

Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil - goodie

Also-called: Jojoba Oil | What-it-does: emollient | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0-2

Jojoba is a drought resistant evergreen shrub native to South-western North America. It's known and grown for jojoba oil, the golden yellow liquid coming from the seeds (about 50% of the weight of the seeds will be oil).

At first glance, it seems like your average emollient plant oil: it looks like an oil and it's nourishing and moisturizing to the skin but if we dig a bit deeper, it turns out that jojoba oil is really special and unique: technically - or rather chemically - it's not an oil but a wax ester (and calling it an oil is kind of sloppy).

So what the heck is a wax ester and why is that important anyway? Well, to understand what a wax ester is, you first have to know that oils are chemically triglycerides: one glycerin + three fatty acids attached to it. The fatty acids attached to the glycerin vary and thus we have many kinds of oils, but they are all triglycerides. Mother Nature created triglycerides to be easily hydrolyzed (be broken down to a glycerin + 3 fatty acid molecules) and oxidized (the fatty acid is broken down into small parts) - this happens basically when we eat fats or oils and our body generates energy from it.

Mother Nature also created wax esters but for a totally different purpose. Chemically, a wax ester is a fatty acid + a fatty alcohol, one long molecule. Wax esters are on the outer surface of several plant leaves to give them environmental protection. 25-30% of human sebum is also wax esters to give us people environmental protection.

So being a wax ester results in a couple of unique properties: First, jojoba oil is extremely stable. Like crazy stable. Even if you heat it to 370 C (698 F) for 96 hours, it does not budge. (Many plant oils tend to go off pretty quickly). If you have some pure jojoba oil at home, you should be fine using it for years.

Second, jojoba oil is the most similar to human sebum (both being wax esters), and the two are completely miscible. Acne.org has this not fully proven theory that thanks to this, jojoba might be able to "trick" the skin into thinking it has already produced enough sebum, so it might have "skin balancing" properties for oily skin.

Third, jojoba oil moisturizes the skin through a unique dual action: on the one hand, it mixes with sebum and forms a thin, non-greasy, semi-occlusive layer; on the other hand, it absorbs into the skin through pores and hair follicles then diffuses into the intercellular spaces of the outer layer of the skin to make it soft and supple.

On balance, the point is this: in contrast to real plant oils, wax esters were designed by Mother Nature to stay on the surface and form a protective, moisturizing barrier and jojoba oil being a wax ester is uniquely excellent at doing that.

Boswellia Carterii Resin Extract