OILY OR ACNE-PRONE SKIN?

Why Skin Oils are the ultimate protection from the environment.

To really protect your skin from environmental aggressors, you need to form a barrier.

That barrier should not suffocate the skin beneath, but instead allow it to breath and work to hydrate and nourish the deeper dermal layers, whilst shielding exposed areas from free radicals and damage.

Even if you have greasy or acne-prone skin, the best protection is oil based, because a skin oil will help maintain hydration, whilst inhibiting the over-production of sebum and bringing more balance to the skin’s texture and appearance.

If your concern is signs of aging, facial oils are particularly suitable. As we get older, our bodies produce less of the essential oils we need to keep our skin looking plump, fresh and nourished. Unless we actively do something counter and support our body, the result is areas of thinner looking skin, dryness, irritation and lines and wrinkles. This can start as early as your mid-twenties.

The answer is to look for an oil with small molecules; good candidates are Argan and Squalene, which are big enough to provide surface cover, whilst being small enough to offer deeper hydration to the skin.

Argan oil is prized for its ability to provide moisture to the skin as well as being rich in vitamin E and specific acids that work to protect the skin from free-radicals and the signs of ageing caused by environmental damage. It provides a light barrier to attacks from pollutants with larger molecules that damage the skins natural protective barriers.

As they say Oils ain't Oils!

Check your oil’s ingredients. Purity is everything.

Anything that has water in the first few ingredients (listed as Aqua) will be diluted and difficult to get any real benefit from. (Perhaps equally important is anything with water in will require unwanted preservatives to prevent any unwanted bacteria) 

Packaging
Exposure to light or heat can damage the oil and reduce the efficacy of the active ingredients.  So the packaging matters.  Ours is housed in a dark blue or amber (for men's range) bottle to preserve the integrity of our blend. 

Oils for Day - Wild Days
The daytimes are when our production of sebum's and oils are at their most active.  So you need the active composition of the oil that works with your body's natural oils to maximise the benefits to your skin throughout the day.

Wild Days, Wild Indian Fig Seed Oil (aka: prickly pear) is the jewel in the crown of our daily range, due to its unique composition.

For daytime use,  Vitamin E and anti-oxidants are vital in tackling environmental aggressors. Prickly Pear seed oil contains phenylalanine that slows down melanin transfer, it also inhibits tyrosinase, the protein responsible for the production of (too much) melanin, so is ideal in the treatment of discolouration.

It also contains ferulic acid that suppresses melanin production and helps even skin tone and reduce scarring. Vitamin K in this oil can also help lighten dark lines under the eyes and minimizes blemishes.

Finally, it’s an antioxidant, working to fight free radicals and protecting your skin from further damage.

Oils for Night - Muun Catcher 
During the night, your skin does its best work rejuvenating itself and cell turnover is maximised, so dead skin cells are discarded. This makes it the ultimate time to take advantage.

At night your body's sebum production is at its lowest, and your skin loses more water, in a process called transepidermal moisture loss (evaporation), partly because we’re naturally hotter at night, and so a deeply nourishing moisturiser is crucial.

As we rest, we also hope that our cortisol – stress - levels drop. Skin that is less stressed is more receptive to the benefits of active ingredients and recovery from the day’s challenges, and the ingredients in your night oil should be reflective of that.

By choosing purifying and actively soothing ingredients you minimise inflammatory skin reactions that cause signs of aging and conditions like acne and rosacea.

Like Wild Days, our night time restorative Muun Catcher is formulated using organic prickly pear seed oil, (this time an organic cold pressed oil sourced uniquely from Tunisia) and blended with organic Argan Oil to encourage cell turnover and reduce fine lines.