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
Hi Nadia! Thanks for all of your posts… I really love what you post. I was wondering if you could experiment on an oil blend for acne prone skin as well as having anti-aging properties. It could be for day or night or both. Thanks!!
Yes just remember the proper dilution ratio!
Please i am fair and slim lady. I need an oil that wil l blend and smoothens my skin. Please help me out. Please i don’t want the one that will bleach me. Please help me out, thank you
Hi with this mixture can you add tea tree and or Cypress to this thanks so much
Hey, i am in love with ir homemade cosmetics *-*
I had two doubts.
1- Melaleuca oil (tea tree) is widely used for oily and acne skin. Is there any specific reason why it is not in the recipe?
2- I’ve been reading that vitamin E is a natural preservative. Is it possible to put it in a recipe or do not need it?
XOXO from Brazil!! =**
You can certainly mis any oils you want! Just remember to properly dilute your essential oils. Also, you may find that one or two carrier oils suit your skin perfectly and you don’t need any more! Check out this post for some more info: The Best Face Oils By Skin Type 🙂
Thank you so much, Aya!! That’s so nice to hear 🙂
What can replace the frankincense essential oil? Can i use instead rosehip oil or tea tree oil?
Just followed you! I’m so rude, I forget to say I love your blog and that I’m so glad that people like you take the personal time of your life to explain us how to do it the right way and share all this gold information.
Much love!
Hi Nadia!
I just started looking for information to know how to use only oils on my face or to try 100% natural DIY skincare routine after my skin changed from normal to combo to now seems oily and maybe first stage of rosácea? So, I wanted to know if it would be posible to ask you a few questions! Well I made a list of low comesogenic and high linoneic oils and with 18! Between essential and “base”or … carrier? (I’m Hispanic sorry) what I wanted to know is … is it bad to mix too many oils? Because I really wanted to arrive to the perfect balance between them doing two different combinations to night and day.
thank you so much!
Hey, Kara! Thanks so much 🙂 I talk about my whole skincare routine here: My Super-Simple All-Natural Skincare & Beauty Routine
What is your routine for washing, oils, and moisturizers at night and in the morning? I love your website by the way 🙂
Katherine, I purchase the Desert Essence brand that I link to through Amazon in the post. It’s USDA certified organic — any product that carries that seal must adhere to certain organic standards. I also love and recommend Mountain Rose Herbs for ALL homemade skincare and beauty products. They’re fantastic and sell a lot of certified organic products.
I’ve finally started using oil instead of a cream moisturizer and I love it! I have acne prone skin so am looking to try something specified to that. Do you suggest trying this combo off the bat, or is there one that can be used on it’s own that works well for this?
Where do you buy your jojoba oil? How do you make sure it’s 100% organic?
Hi Nadia, just wanted to double check- I am supposed to sleep with this moisturizer on right? Not wash it off with a hot towel or anything? Was reading the comments and got confused. I have super sensitive skin, started off using the jojoba oil last night and will venture to find the other oils to make this mix!! Hope it goes well
Just pounced upon your blog and so fascinated with your natural stuff. I am in Jamaica and a naturalist, not a 100% but I have a daughter (20) terrible hair bumps her cheeks and neck – very embarrassing. what do u suggest only this morning I told her to go a face place.
The essential oils make up 3% of the mixture. They are diluted in the carrier oils.
Hi Nadia,
Wondering what you dilute this solution with since you mention the oils make up 3% of the mixture.
Thanks!
Hi,
I know I just commented on your other story, but forgot to ask what you dilute this mixture with since you say the oils only make up a 3% dilution.
Thanks!