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Sunflower oil is a great addition to a body butter thanks to the – oh no, she’s going to mention it again!!! – linoleic acid, which helps speed up skin’s barrier repair mechanisms and reduces transepidermal water loss; oleic acid, which moisturizes and softens; and phytosterols, which reduce inflammation and itching. As I’ve just covered this subject in the One...
Making an oil based scrub is incredibly simple – it doesn’t require heating, just pouring and mixing – and sunflower oil is a fantastic choice for such an appplication. Yeah, I know, I keep going on about the awesome linoleic acid and how it is great for repairing skin’s barrier mechanisms and reducing transepidermal water...
I love using sunflower oil in whipped butters because it offers a really light skin feel that takes a while to sink into my skin. It offers me tons of lovely linoleic acid to help repair skin’s barrier mechanisms and reduce transepidermal water loss, oleic acid to soften and moisturizer, and the phystosterols help reduce...
Sunflower oil is a great inclusion in any lotion or cream you might be making to help with broken skin thanks to all that lovely Vitamin E and linoleic acid, so I’m including it in my zinc oxide lotion. My lotion is based on this one – a light lotion with pumpkin seed oil –...
As you know, one of my favourite products is my emulsified scrub, and one of my favourite oils in said scrubs is sunflower oil. As I just wrote quite a lot about emulsified sugar scrubs in the series on Incroquat BTMS-50, I’m going to refer you to those posts – part one and part two...