DIY All-Natural Face Oil for Acne-Prone & Oily Skin
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This DIY All-Natural Face Oil for Acne-Prone and Oily Skin combines the best carrier oils and essential oils to keep skin clear by fighting blemishes and reducing oil production. Yes, applying oil to your skin can actually reduce the skin’s own oil production! Learn why it works + grab the recipe!
Some things are just real head-scratchers…
Like how putting oil on your face can actually make your skin less oily and less break-out prone.
It took me years of frustration and poisoning my body with chemical-laden skin care products before I finally experienced this last one firsthand.
I always thought that oil in skin care products was to be avoided at all costs.
So putting straight oil on my face? Oh heck no.
But then I got desperate. And I did it. And it worked. And now I’m hooked!
P.S. Want to take all the guesswork out of it? I’ve bottled up my best face oil blends — the Body Unburdened Beauty Blends — just for you. Beauty Blend No.2 is my best-seller, formulated to gently but effectively transform blemish-prone skin.
So how exactly does oil help to keep skin clear?
Face oils help to keep skin clear and blemish-free in a few different ways.
1. Face oils help to regulate the skin’s own oil production
The skin produces oil (a.k.a. sebum) as a natural moisturizer. Sebum is totally natural and even necessary, but excessive sebum production can increase the risk of blemishes. Applying oil to the skin can help reduce the skin’s own production of oil.
Important note: excess oil production is often a symptom of hormonal imbalance. You can learn more about this and how to balance hormones naturally in my book Glow: The Nutritional Approach to Naturally Gorgeous Skin.
2. Face oils are rich in antioxidants, which prevent skin sebum from oxidizing
When the skin’s own oil or sebum oxidizes, it becomes extremely comedogenic or pore-clogging. More and more, this is becoming recognized as a primary cause of acne and breakouts. Most face oils are rich in the antioxidant vitamins A, C, and E, which prevent sebum oxidation.
3. Face oils breakup the gunk in our pores
When it comes down to it, a zit is really nothing more than a sticky mess of oil and dead skin cells. And since like-dissolves-like (in other words, oil and water don’t mix but water and water do mix as do oil and oil), applying oil to the skin can actually help to break up this sticky mess and clear it from the pore.
4. Face oils soothe and moisturize the skin
By helping to reduce inflammation and moisturize the skin, face oils help blemished skin heal more quickly and help reduce the risk of scarring.
Applying oil to my face was a total game-changer for me!
My breakouts became virtually non-existent.
Yes yes, I’m now one of those lucky ladies who gets to freak out when she gets one little zit before her period and it feels AWESOME.
Want to know the feeling? This simple face oil for acne and blemish-prone skin can help you get there!
DIY All-Natural Face Oil for Acne-Prone & Oily Skin
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons jojoba oil
- 1 tablespoon tamanu oil
- 6 drops lavender essential oil*
- 6 drops frankincense essential oil*
*This is a 2% essential oil dilution (in other words, the essential oils make up just 2% of the total final mixture)
You’ll also need a 2 oz. glass bottle with glass dropper.
Why these ingredients?
- Jojoba oil: a light oil that is easily absorbed. It mimics the skin’s sebum, tricking it to produce less oil.
- Tamanu oil: has strong anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antibiotic, and antioxidant properties, making it ideal for acne sufferers. It also helps regenerate skin cells, helping to heal broken skin and reduce the appearance of acne scars.
- Lavender essential oil: has powerful antibacterial properties and also helps calm inflamed skin.
- Frankincense essential oil: has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory benefits to the skin, making it ideal for acne-prone skin. It is also a natural toner, decreasing the appearance of pores and evening skin-tone.
Directions
- Add all of the ingredients to the dropper bottle.
- Put the cap on and give it a little shake!
- Apply 4-6 drops to clean, dry skin.
Yes, it’s as simple as that!
Interested in other carrier oil and essential oil options?
Have fun and get creative! You’ll find all of the information you need in these blog posts:
- How to Make A Custom Face Oil Blend
- The Top 10 Essential Oils for Skincare
- The Best Face Oils By Skin Type
Do you use the oil blend only at night?
I was wobdering if i can use it in the morning, or is it wrap gubernamentales to use products with essential oils in the morning ?
Thank you
Hi, Penny! For dry skin, you may like apricot kernel oil or argan oil. There are a ton of others too but those are the ones I have tried and enjoy for drier skin. Hoping to put a post about the different oils for different skin types together soon 🙂
I just use clean fingers!
Definitely take a look at your diet – it plays a HUGE role in skin health. Healthy fats, anti-inflammation, and hormone balance all really influence your skin AND those are really influenced by diet and lifestyle. Tackling the issue from both sides is the best way to do it. Best of luck to you!
Sure! This is just the particular blend that I like for my particular skin – you can add or subtract anything you want to make your own blend! Rosehip oil is a dry oil, so just keep that in mind. It blends well with jojoba oil for that reason.
I am so excited to try this out! Would it be advisable (and safe) to add Rosehip oil to this mix?
Hi Nadia,
I grew up with excellent skin and now the past couple of years have developed a great deal of acne via stress and not treating my body right. And now my wedding is in 3 months and I’m desperate to get it sorted out! Loving your site so far 🙂
I’m wondering how you spread the oil after droppering (not a word?) it onto your face. Do you prefer cotton pads, cotton balls, or do you just go a head and use your fingers?
Thanks!
Hello from Canada! I was wondering if you knew a recipe mixture that would help dry skin? I’ve tried using combos of essential oils and my face just got more dry. I hate using my store bought stuff doubt to all the chemicals but it’s all that works. So if you have a recipe you think will work I’d be much appreciated! Thx for your time !
Hi,
when transferring the liquids to the glass dropper bottle, should we use a plastic funnel or is a metal funnel better?
The oils will not be altered by the metal right, like charcoal/bentonite clay?
Hi,
I have made this facial oil blend, EXACTLY as you have described above. When is its expiry date?
I will be gifting one to my cousin and girlfriends. So, I need to know the expiry date. Thank you! I have subscribed! YAY
As explained, it means the EOs make up 3% of the final mixture.
What does 3% dilution mean?
I can’t just simply add the frankincense+lavener oil into the oil blend??
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Huh I’ve never used wheatgerm oil and will have to look into it!
Would this face oil be OK to use in the morning before applying makeup? I am not at the point that I would be comfortable going to work without foundation (acne + red & indented scars). I am using a serum at night to help with the scarring so am mainly looking for something to wash my face with in the morning that would still allow me to apply make up.
Hello, this is really helpful!
I love tamanu oil, I can put it on a spot and the spot is reduced the next morning.
But I was wondering if I can add wheatgerm oil to this recipe? I use it every night and it helps with acne scarring. What do you think of it?
for your faicial oil blend, you said this is a 3% dilution. what does that mean? i can’t add the lavener oil in the oil blend i have to do something to it first?
I have all of these ingredients but the tamanu. Would it work nearly as well without the tamanu? Thanks.
It means that the essential oils make up 3% of the final product. Because essential oils are so extremely concentrated, they need to be diluted in a carrier oil (in this case, the jojoba and tamanu oil).
Hi. I am new to oils and I just stumbled across your oil recipe for acne prone skin. I am curious, at the end when you say this is a 3% dilution, what do you mean? Does this mixture need to be diluted with water? I just want to be sure to get the correct mix so that I am not applying something too concentrated to my skin and make it more irritated. Thank you kindly 🙂
Nadia,
Do you wash your face with this mixture or do you just use it as a moisturizer? What do you wash your makeup and face with if not this? And for the moisturizer, do you wear it at night or morning? I have acne prone skin and I am 21 years old. I have completely tried everything from going to the dermatologist to rodan and fields. I just want to have a clear face like everyone around me. I have mild acne and I have red acne scarring because my skin is the type to scar after one pimple or mosquito bite. Do you think this regime would work for my skin type and if not what do you think i should use?
Thanks,
Shea Ratliff
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