7 Simple Natural Moisturizers

I love combining natural oils and butter with essential oils and using them as natural moisturizers to pamper my skin.

Regarding beauty, I prefer a “less is more” and “quality over quantity” approach, just like my diet. That’s the reason I love sourcing good-quality ingredients. After all, our body is where we reside every day, right, so it makes perfect sense to take good care of it.

Below are a few of my favorite high-quality ingredients for beautiful, radiant skin.

Cocoa Butter (cold pressed) is helpful for dry skin, stretch marks, scars, chapped skin, and lips. Its antioxidants help fight against free radicals keeping the skin looking younger.

Kokum Butter is an excellent moisturizer for sensitive, dry, and acne-prone skin. Its emollient properties help improve the moisture content making the skin look more youthful.

Shea Butter is an excellent moisturizer for all skin types, but dry, cracked, and damaged skin can benefit from its soothing qualities. It contains vitamins A and E and is helpful for stretch marks.

Coconut Oil contains medium-chain fatty acids, lauric, capric, and caprylic, which have been shown to have antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal properties. Its antioxidants help keep the skin looking youthful.

Vitamin E is high in antioxidants and promotes cell regeneration. Dry lips benefit from vitamin E since it brings new cells to the surface, which is why I add it to my lip balm.

Apricot Kernel oil benefits sensitive, dry, mature, itchy skin. It absorbs more slowly into the skin than other oils and nourishes, softens, and is soothing to the lips and skin.

Avocado Oil is rich in vitamins E and D and has skin regeneration and anti-wrinkle properties. Although thick, the oil gets absorbed quickly into the skin, making them brilliant for dry, mature, aging skin.

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