22 Tips for a Natural Skin Care Routine with Essential Oils

Do you want to switch to a more natural skin care routine at home? I totally hear you!

I used to feel really overwhelmed trying to find the right products for my skin.

Especially for face care.

Choosing to use natural products made my life SO much easier.

Suddenly, the options became way more limited. Which for me – was a good thing!

Many popular beauty and skin care products are laden with chemicals, toxins, and potentially harmful ingredients.

Essential oils are great for the skin and body. Once you own a bottle of oil, there are so many ways that you can use it.

Wouldn’t it be so refreshing and liberating to use a natural, chemical-free kind of skin care routine, day in and day out?

I’ll show you how!

Why Natural Ingredients Matter

Personally, I want to make sure that what I eat and drink doesn’t harm me in any way.

And, I also think about the things I put on my body — for example, the lotions that make up my beauty routine.

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Beauty products quite often contain ingredients that I know nothing about.

After choosing to go natural, I no longer need to worry about dozens of skin care brands trying to convince me of the latest technological advancements

Or read long lists of difficult sounding ingredients.

I’m quite happy to know exactly what is in my product.

So that’s what I’m here to help you with, too! 💖

Skin Types

Everyone’s skin can benefit from using natural oils. But depending on your skin type, you will want to focus on using different essential oils in your natural skincare routine.

There are five different skin types: normal, dry, oily, combination, and sensitive.

Discover how you can use essential oils for natural beauty, depending on your skin type.

You’ll be able to achieve the best care for your skin with a selection of oils and products that are customized to your needs.

Here’s which oils should be your top pick depending on skin type:

• Normal skin: People with normal skin don’t typically have to worry about their skin type. Their skin is balanced and they usually have a healthy glow. The best essential oils for normal skin are lavender, chamomile, geranium, and ylang-ylang.
• Dry skin: If you have dry skin, you will want to use essential oils that are moisturizing, nourishing, and that help keep your skin hydrated. Some good essential oils to use for dry skin include lavender, rose and geranium. You may also benefit from a facial oil.
• Oily skin: If you have oily skin, you will want to use essential oils that are cleansing and purifying. Some good essential oils to use in your routine for oily skin include tea tree, clary sage and rosemary oil.
• Combination skin: If you have combination skin, you will want to use a mix of essential oils that are moisturizing and cleansing. Some good essential oils to use for combination skin include lavender, lemon, and grapefruit.
• Sensitive skin: If you have sensitive skin, you will want to use essential oils that are gentle and soothing. Some good essential oils to use for this type of skin include chamomile, helichrysum and neroli.

22 Natural Skincare Tips

Here are 22 ideas and tips to make your skin care routine more natural and less toxic.

Some are DIY recipes, homemade with essential oils. Others are ready-made natural products from reputable essential oil companies such as Rocky Mountain Oils or Plant Therapy.

Enjoy!!

Use Fractionated Coconut Oil to remove make-up completely naturally

1. Make-up Remover

Make-up Remover: To naturally remove eye make-up, foundation, blush, or anything else, simply use Fractionated Coconut Oil. That’s it – you really don’t need anything more. Dab it onto your hands or a cotton round, and remove make-up as usual.

2. Exfoliate Your Lips

To exfoliate your lips, create a super quick sugar scrub. Mix 1 tsp white sugar with 1 tsp carrier oil (such as jojoba, Fractionated coconut, sweet almond, or even olive oil or grape seed oil that you may have handy in your kitchen). Exfoliate gently – the skin on your lips is thin and fragile.

3. Homemade Lip Balm

For a natural lip balm, try this easy natural lip balm recipe with essential oils, beeswax, vitamin E and jojoba oil.

4. Under Eye Bags

Green tea is one of the most powerful anti-aging home remedies we have access to. Apply 2 bags of green tea to your eyes (1 on each eye), for about five minutes at night.

5. Puffy Eye Serum

Make this super simple 2-ingredient DIY Puffy Eye Serum to fight under-eye bags.

6. Natural Face Cleanser

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I’ve been using the Mountain Rain facial cleanser from Rocky Mountain Oils. It’s so smooth to apply! It smells super pleasant and leaves behind a clean, smooth face after your face wash.

A definite hit in my house! 

7. Easy Facial Toner

Simply use Frankincense hydrosol as an alcohol free toner. Spray directly onto the palm of you hands, then apply to the face. Use twice daily, morning and night, just as you would with your current product. Or you can make this fantastic Rose facial toner DIY recipe.

8. Facial Serum

Facial serums support your skin with extra nutrients such as Vitamin C, E, Aloe Vera, or Hyaluronic Acid. I use this fabulous 3-pack face serums from Plant Therapy. Use them during your morning & evening skincare routine.

9. Face Oil

Face oils can naturally enhance your skin’s health and appearance.

10. Night Cream

For my night skincare routine, I use Rocky Mountain Oils’ Sacred Skin Facial Moisturizer. It is one of my all-time favorite natural products. Frankincense is a skin care powerhouse essential oil, boasting moisturizing and balancing effects on the skin. Blended in with this luxurious face cream formula, it makes for a skin care routine to look forward to every night! Other night creams tend to feel heavy and greasy – not this one.

11. 4 Step Natural Skin Care Routine

4 Step Skin Care Routine from Plant Therapy
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This beautiful 4-step set from Plant Therapy has been making my life so easy!

It works beautifully for my combination skin needs.

The smells are gentle, yet pleasant. Nothing too overwhelming or “soap smelling”. 😉

While the Vitamin C serum is definitely my favorite, the whole set is fabulous all the way from Gel- Cream Cleanser to Hydrating Facial Cream.

12. Anti Bacterial Hand Soap

Make this DIY foaming hand soap with a Young Living “Thieves” blend alternative oil blend for best germ fighting power all year long.

13. DIY Soap Bars

If you prefer chemical-free soap bars, make soap lotion bars using essential oils. They’re a great natural solution for lasting skin health.

14. Nail Serum

For dry nails and cracked cuticles, blend 1/2 tsp of fractionated coconut oil with 2 drops tea tree oil. Massage into your fingertips immediately. You can blend the potion right in the palm of your hand.

15. Natural Deodorant

Use a natural deodorant such as Lavender or WildFlower Sensitive from WildRoot. For a deodorant suitable for performance needs, try the WildFlower Performance Formula.

16. Sugar Scrub

This DIY Lemon Sugar Scrub is heavenly for peeling, exfoliating and refreshing your skin.

17. DIY Body Butter

Make DIY whipped body butter. You can make it with different essential oil blends, such as oils for stretch marks or a combination including oils for wrinkled skin. Overall though, the cocoa butter base does a beautiful job at naturally moisturizing the skin, and keeping any chemicals away.

18. Natural Body Creme

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For a ready-made natural body butter, try this age-defying body creme from Plant Therapy.

19. Dry Skin Oil

For dry skin, mix up your own Dry Skin Oil with this recipe here.

20. Natural Shampoo and Conditioner

Use this Tohi Aloe Vera Shampoo and Conditioner duo made with natural plant-based ingredients and infused with 100% pure essential oils and Aloe Vera.

21. DIY Shampoo

You may also opt to use a natural, unscented shampoo base and add your own essential oils for stunning hair.

22. Lavender Hair Mask

Make a DIY Lavender hair mask to rejuvenate dry and damaged hair.

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FAQs about Natural Skin Care

When it comes to skin care, natural and organic solutions are more popular than ever.

People are looking for ways to ditch the harsh chemicals and artificial ingredients in favor of something more gentle and natural.

Final Thoughts

Love your skin. Care for it!

I lavish in my bathroom time; I really love it. Applying body butter, using facial tonic, lathering on moisturizer,… you name it, I probably have a product for it!

I know it’s hard to try something new. And you may be skeptical about the effectiveness of natural skin care products or DIY recipes.

I’d like to encourage you to stop putting so many chemicals on your body and opt for natural solutions instead. Even if you just switch up one thing for now.

Once you do switch, you’ll love the results! Please let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

I wish you all the best in your new-found natural skin care routine.

Enjoy your naturally nourished skin!