Best Essential Oils For Your Skin Type

Best Essential Oils to use for your skin type

Best Essential Oils to use for your skin type
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Following on from the previous post Knowing Your Skin Type, this post focuses on the best essential oils to use for your skin type. Knowing this will help you to treat your skin to exactly what it needs and let you improve on and enhance your best features.

Again, we have done a handy infographic as a quick guide to help you see, at a glance, what the best essential oils are to use for your skin.

Find out more about each essential oil listed below and in the infographic by checking out our page on aromatherapy essential oils.

This post is second in the series of infographics on Knowing Your Skin Type and the best essential oils, carrier oils, facial clays and hydrosols you should be using.

Normal Skin

  • Chamomile
  • Geranium
  • Jasmine
  • Lavender
  • Neroli
  • Patchouli
  • Rose
  • Rosewood
  • Ylang Ylang

Oily Skin

  • Bergamot
  • Cedarwood
  • Cypress
  • Geranium
  • Juniper
  • Lavender
  • Lemon
  • Lime
  • Mandarin
  • Orange
  • Tangerine
  • Ylang Ylang

Dry Skin

  • Chamomile
  • Jasmine
  • Lavender
  • Palmarosa
  • Patchouli
  • Rose
  • Sandalwood

Combination Skin

  • Geranium
  • Lavender
  • Neroli
  • Palmarosa
  • Sandalwood
  • Ylang Ylang

Sensitive Skin

  • Chamomile – German
  • Geranium
  • Jasmine
  • Immortelle
  • Lavender
  • Neroli
  • Rose
  • Rosewood
  • Sandalwood
  • Yarrow

Dehydrated Skin

  • Palmarosa
  • Rose
  • Rosewood
  • Sandalwood

Mature Skin

  • Frankincense
  • Geranium
  • Immortelle
  • Jasmine
  • Lavender
  • Myrrh
  • Neroli
  • Palmarosa
  • Patchouli
  • Rose
  • Sandalwood

Acneous Skin

  • Bergamot
  • Cedarwood
  • Chamomile – German
  • Clary Sage
  • Cypress
  • Eucalyptus
  • Geranium
  • Immortelle
  • Lavender
  • Tea Tree
  • Thyme
  • Yarrow
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