Beauty. How I make my own night oil serum.

Hey All,

I decided today to share with you the recipe I use for my night oil serum. I have developed my own serum night oil as I was working to recover my skin from acne and Roacutane treatment. And thinking back on it, I am using it for some years now, I change the recipe based on what ingredients I have at the moment, but the idea remained basically the same:

All ingredients for my night serum oil 

• Pure oils
• Vitamins
• Active, non-comedogenic, lightweight, scarring reducing oils

Today the ingredients I used are the following:

• Pure oils:
• Rice bran (contains phytosterols, oryzanol and ferulic acid - it has antioxidant, anti-aging, soothing and cutaneous regenerative effects, with a dry texture, absorbed easily into the skin)
• Madonna lily (contains amega 6, omega 9, palmitic and stearic acids, and phytosterols - helps prevent and diminish pigmentation spots and redness, with a slight anti-inflammatory property, very good for fragile, sensitive skin)
• Argan (contains phytosterols and antioxidants - it has anti-ageing, reparatory, regenerative and hydrating properties, it has comedogenic properties, however it doesn't generate acne or pustules)
• Nigella (contains polisaturated fatty acids, nigelline, nigellone, thymoquinone, para-cymene, vitamine E and carotenoids - which help purify and ameliorate various skin ailments)
• Jojoba (contains gadoleic, erucic and nervonic acids, poliphenols, tanins - it penetrates the skin via the hair folicule and mimics the skin sebun, which helps reduce the oil generated by the skin and promoted skin balance)
• Camelia (or green tea oil, rich in omega 9, vitamins and squalan - it has a skin restructuring effect, with a dry texture, absorbed easily in the skin and non-comedogenic)



My bottle with the previous night serum oil and the ingredients for the new one

• Active oils:
• Blackcurrant (contains an array of fatty acids and vitamin E - it has regenerative, antioxidante and rebalancing effects for the skin, very good for mature, lifeless, wrinkled skin)
• Schisandra (contains a mixture of active ingredients and anti-oxidants that help problematic, atopic and reactive skin - it helps with skin rashes and skin recovery)
• Raspberry (contains carotenoids, gallic acid and vitamin E - it has a small SPF, helps protect the skin from sun damage, promotes recovery and skin illumination)
• Pomegranate (contains a potent formulation of vitamin C- it helps fight skin ageing)
• Acmella (reduces skin scarring by stimulating the elastine and collagen buil up in the skin)
• Arnica extract (used in traditional medicine for its helps regenerating properties - reduces the skin damage, muscle and skin pain)
• Vitamin A - skin restructuring properties
• Vitamin E - oil conservant and anti-ageing properties

Mixing all the above mentioned ingredients created a serum with a multitude of properties:

• Hydrating and relaxing the skin during the night
• If applied over the night creams or treatments, it helps the night cream's active ingredients enter the skin into the deep layers.
• Because I do not use any synthetic perfumes or ingredients, it doesn't irritate my sensitive skin
• Helps prevent pores from getting clogged, hence pimples and blemished don't appear over night
• Reduces scarring and has an anti-aging effect

I use a pump recipient and the oil mix lasts some 6-7 months at a time. I don't use the ingredients all at once and they last a pretty long time for more mixtures.

I get all my ingredients from Elemental and they have amazing customer service and delivery services for Romania and Hungary. I highly recommend them.

Recently, after I have already been using my mix for years, Kiehl's opened a store in Bucharest and I discovered their Midnight Recovery Concentrate. I love the scent and the texture - it is slightly lighter than my mix, but they both seem to work in the same way.

What is you favorite night treatment?

Do you make your own skin care products?
What do you think about home-made skin care?

Take care,

Alex.

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