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Post by anela on Feb 5, 2018 17:47:19 GMT
For skin and hair? I'm wary of putting anything into my hair now, because it's SO thin. I used to have a lot more of it. I've checked out a few products since visiting a store about an hour away, that was opened by an actress (from parenthood), and bought her oil for the skin, that includes this. She also sells a sea buckthorn cream, but they're so expensive (shipping for the oil was something like $8, so I bought it right there in the store).
I was just wondering if anyone had used it. I see all of these oils on there (Amazon) for the face and hair, and get overwhelmed. My aunt once gave me a pomegranate face oil, that she'd been given by someone who sold the products. When we were on good terms. I used it for a while, seven years ago, but something happened to it - I don't know what. I couldn't afford to buy all of this stuff, so I didn't look for more.
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Post by anela on Feb 5, 2018 17:53:34 GMT
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Post by Ava on Feb 6, 2018 14:38:40 GMT
That oil looks excellent. It has real jasmine EO as an ingredient? Does it smell amazing? I've only used Sea Buckthorn in Aubrey Organics face wash, which was my favorite, for years: Smells so delicious, and it works well, but it sputters out of the bottle, gets lodged at the base of the bottle, and I lost patience with it. --- Speaking of serums and face oils: I used to know a woman who looked super young for her age. She was 42 when I met her and I couldn't believe it. She had given birth as a teenager and her daughter was in her 20s...I said, "Everyone assumes you two are siblings, right?" She laughed and said that was true. Well I've had random strangers approach me when I'm out with my kids, wondering if I'm their mom or older sister, and let me tell you this has been a great joy in life, but I feel like I'm aging fast and need emergency help. Anyway....I'm drinking coffee and my mind is all over the place....this woman I mentioned said that her skincare secret was jojoba oil and aloe vera juice mixed together, that's what she put on her skin each night. Her skin was like a miracle but I'm always procrastinating about trying this, because aloe juice comes in large containers and I don't know how long you can store it once its opened. I think you're supposed to drink it, so it may only last like 10 days? I wish I had asked her more questions. One of my best friends worked for an EO company in Germany and is somewhat of an oil snob (I say this affectionately) and teaches me about oils and mails them to me. She got me hooked on Rosehip Seed Oil. Unfortunately the brand she sent me, which has this lovely woodsy smell and vibrant orange color, is unavailable in the US. All the other brands I've tried have no smell, and at least half are clear instead of the proper orange. I don't like that they refine the hell out of these oils. Anyway, she speaks very highly of argan oil, so I bought some. At one point last year I decided to test my skin with argan oil on one side and straight jojoba on the other. For a month I kept up this experiment. Jojoba was the clear winner, it was shrinking my pores and smoothing things out very nicely. My friend was curious about my results but probably had a hard time believing that cheap jojoba outperformed the argan. But I'm presenting that as evidence, for whatever it's worth: jojoba is good.
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Post by anela on Feb 6, 2018 20:24:15 GMT
I have a large bottle of emu oil, but I keep forgetting to use it. My sister recommended it to me eight years ago, when I started to panic over getting a few lines (thanks to squinting, since I hadn't been wearing glasses), and then around the corner of my eyes. She had this little bottle, and I didn't use it as much as I should have, because I'm so disorganized. I also tried to mix some with coconut oil, but the mixture went off, so I don't know what to do. I had been using a l'areal serum, in 2010, that helped, but they stopped selling it. I'm thinking about trying this during the day - a few drops added to a moisturizer - and then emu oil at night, if I can remember to use it. Although I feel bad for the emus - I'd rather find something that doesn't hurt an animal. I used to use St Ive's collagen and elastin, because it left my skin feeling really soft - I first bought it when I was fifteen, and moved back to California - but then my skin started to break out, and it made my eyes water. The 30 SPF moisturizer I use when I go out, also makes my eyes water. I'll look up the jojoba.
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