While there are many anti-aging formulations available on the market, some have chemicals that may be harmful to your skin with long-term use. These 7 best essential oils for wrinkles are an ancient beauty secret perfect for reducing the visible signs of aging.
Essential oils are known as the concentrated “life force” of the plant because they penetrate your skin quickly to hydrate and restore a radiant-looking complexion.
Maybe you don't realize that your skin is actually the largest organ of your body. It's also the most vulnerable since it's the organ most exposed to the elements so it can take an awful beating over time.
As you begin to grow older, suddenly years of abuse begin to become noticeable.
Over time, the skin loses a protein that keeps the skin looking fresh, vibrant, and young… That protein is collagen!
Collagen Loss
With less collagen present in the skin's second layer (the dermis), the skin can no longer keep its plump, youthful shape. It starts to sag, and sagging is further aided by gravity. The wrinkles may be fine at first, but with time they begin to deepen. It is at this point, unfortunately, that you'll begin to see wrinkles forming.
What To Do?
Many women who experience this natural cycle of aging think about undergoing cosmetic surgery. But surgery is invasive and dangerous…
Any type of surgery carries a risk of infection and worse yet, you may look freaky and not at ALL like yourself and hate it!
An alternative to surgery… one that's safer, less expensive, and definitely won't hurt as much… is to use essential for wrinkles. Or at least start by preventing wrinkles naturally.
Even if you decide to do something more aggressive or invasive in the future… These essential oils for wrinkles have the properties that will help your skin look its best.
Is Skincare Worth Your Time?
Using these essential oils for wrinkles will speed things along if you don't overload your system with toxins that the skin has to work hard to eliminate.
But you already know this right? Reduce alcohol (a real ager if ever there has been) coffee, tea, sweets, red meats, and all the things you already know will clog up your digestion and then your skin cells.
Here's the thing… Why do we do this? Why do we do the things we know we shouldn't do?
Maybe you're saying to yourself… Is it worth it? Is taking the time for skincare really worth my time?
YES! It is worth it. If you can cut ten years from your appearance, you'll feel ten years younger, have more energy, and even your outlook on life will be better.
Below you'll find the best essential oils for erasing the signs of aging on your skin.
Start today if you want to look healthy and good as the decades go by!
7 Best Essential Oils for Wrinkles
Essential Oil 1: Jojoba oil
Jojoba oil is most commonly known for its role in hair care products and hydrating conditioning lotions. But Jojoba oil has many more special powers than just adding extra shine to your hair.
In fact, cold-pressed jojoba oil is rich in iodine, a trace mineral that many people don't get enough of with today's diets of highly processed foods. Jojoba oil is also about as non-oily as you can get and can be your skin's new best friend in so many ways:
- It is non-comedogenic. So it won't clog up your pores and lead to acne.
- It is full of fats which help to prevent water loss in the skin. (Aging is the result of dehydration of the skin. Jojoba adds suppleness and maintains moisture in the skin
- It can also increase your skin's ability to produce more collagen. This is a huge “win” when using jojoba oil to combat wrinkles!
- It can balance combination skin. This keeps your skin from being too dry in some areas and too oily in others.
- It is all-natural and organic. To date, there have been no reports of jojoba oil causing any type of allergic reaction even in people with sensitive skin.
- It also has sunscreen properties and contains many vitamins and minerals.
Essential Oil 2: Pomegranate Seed oil
Pomegranate oil is made from the red seeds of the pomegranate fruit. In fact, it is that trademark dark red color that gives away pomegranate oil its biggest benefit to your skin…
Pomegranate seed oil is a rich, nutritious oil. It takes over 250 pounds of fresh pomegranate seeds to make just one pound of pomegranate seed oil.
Pomegranate Seed Oil Benefits:
- Improves skin texture
- Good for all skin types
- Stimulates skin cells to reveal a more youthful skin appearance
- Anti-inflammatory for eczema, psoriasis, and sunburn
- Deeply hydrating and soothing
- Antioxidants to help with collagen production to firm skin
- Packed with bioflavonoids, a natural UV repellant, and a skin protector
If you're having trouble finding a sunscreen that your skin tolerates well… Your worries are over! Just use pomegranate see oil instead. It has all the same benefits and none of the scary-sounding ingredients or harsh side effects.
Essential Oil 3: Lavender oil
Lavender oil is a continual favorite for its soothing, relaxing fragrance. But it can do much more than just help you de-stress and sleep.
Perhaps its #1 benefit is that it can boost your body's production of antioxidants… Antioxidants bind to free radicals and lower your risk of cancer, especially skin cancer.
Lavender's most potent skin healing and wrinkle-reducing properties come from its high concentrations of antimicrobial, antioxidant, and antibacterial agents.
Additionally, Lavender oil is a go-to essential oil for healing burns, scrapes, eczema, psoriasis, rashes, hives, and chronic skin irritations.
Lavender is one of the few essential oils that can be applied directly to the skin without dilution. Lavender oil is one of the most popular essential oils in the world.
Essential Oil 4: Frankincense oil
Frankincense first became famous because of its role in a certain scriptural VIP's Biblical birth. It was once considered more valuable than gold.
But today it is earning its second day in the sun as a natural restorative essential oil for wrinkles and skin healing.
Check out this list of miracles Frankincense oil can pull off:
- Reduce the appearance of sunspots and age spots.
- Protect the cells of your skin and reduce the incidence of acne.
- Even out skin color across your face and neck.
- Firm and tighten sagging skin.
- Plump up areas where wrinkles have formed.
- Strengthen and thicken skin (important since skin thins out as you age!).
- Fades stretch marks, scars, cracks, and wounds.
- Moisturizes and hydrates irritated dry skin.
Essential Oil 5: Geranium Oil
Geranium essential oil is a potent antioxidant and has significant sun-protective properties. The use of Geranin in sunscreen formulations can help protect your skin from photodamage, as scientific studies have shown that it provides protection against UV rays.
Geranium essential oil also has antiseptic abilities which will help with holding moisture inside the cells while keeping out harmful external elements like pollution or radioactivity!
Essential Oil 6: Rose oil
Rose oil is one of the hands-down best essential oils for wrinkles and aging skin in general. It is a gift to women and the queen of essential oils!
In skincare, it is important because of its astringent and antiseptic nature.
It can be especially beneficial for Pitta-type inflammation and skin allergies. If you're not sure of your skin type you can find out your doshas here.
Rose essential oil has the ability to re-balance and equalize combination skin. It has the ability to improve the tone and texture of your skin, reducing the appearance of even the smallest age-related lines and wrinkles.
Additionally, it has robust antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. It soothes cracked, chapped, sensitive, dry, inflamed, or allergy-prone skin and encourages wound healing.
Rose oil is somewhat expensive. But that's because it's one of the most difficult essential oils to distill. It takes the most handpicked, raw material to produce a small amount of oil
Rose petals are harvested by hand prior to sunrise to capture their purest essence. It takes between 5,000 and 10,000 pounds of rose petals to produce 1 pound of rose essential oil.
Essential Oil 7: Neroli oil
Neroli oil is made from the flowers of the orange tree. If Rose is the queen of essential oils, Neroli is the princess.
Aging skin responds well to neroli oil because it has what skin cells need:
Citral
Citral is an all-natural chemical to tone the skin and improve elasticity. It can help cells regenerate and resolve old wounds like stretch marks and scars.
Neroli oil is also a natural antiseptic, which makes it ideal for treating age-related combination skin blemishes.
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R E C I P E
Anti-Wrinkle Night Oil
Add 4 drops of Frankincense
4 drops Neroli
6 drops Lavender
10 drops Rose
to
1 teaspoon Jojoba and 1 teaspoon Pomegranate Oil
Blend well and apply to the face and neck at night before bed.
Conclusion
These 7 essential oils are among the most powerful, helpful, and healing essential oils for skin that needs healing, restoration, rejuvenation, and rebalancing. But one of the best properties of using essential oils to heal and restore your skin is that they feel and smell so good!
Plus, unlike surgery or invasive injectables, they are totally natural and safe. You won't have to worry about having adverse reactions, infection, irritation, or scarring.
Aging something that effects women and men of elderly age its part of the natural age process that allows for the body to truly show the wisdom gained over the years of your life.
The problem is no one like the fall-backs that come with aging from wrinkles to grey hair or even poor health conditions. Women especially spend 1000’s on expensive plastic surgery and laser treatments to try and lessen if not remove these drawbacks of age.
Personally I am still of a young age but I know many elderly community members that have literally spent there saving away on expensive unnecessary treatments.
Love this forward to every person who I think will benefit from it.
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Good work and best of luck
Totally agree and thanks Naeem! xo
I work at a spa here on Maui and i hear that word every single day. Essential oils. We use essential oils for many of our treatments and our guests could even custom blend their own mix of essential oils. My least favorite is lavender. For some reason it reminds me of a bad experience when i was younger.
Hi Lorenz,
Yes, well I guess you can blame your dislike of lavender (what a pity) to brain anatomy. Our sense of smell is directly connected to the amygdala and hippocampus, the part of the brain that handles memory and emotion.
I love reading your website and I am always looking for face products to help my skin! I have an uneven skin tone. Very dry in some spots and normal in others. If I purchased frankincense oil would I have to mix it with another oil or can I use it by itself on my Skin?
Thank you
Melissa
Hi Melissa,
You can use Frankincense alone, but you still need to dilute it with a carrier oil such as jojoba or Pomegranate oil.
Hi Jackie. I likeed your post, but only because I adore essential oils. I dont use them for anti-wrinke benfits but for mood and concetration. I use nutmeg oil for improved focus, cinnamon oil for a boost in creativity and my favourite, neroli oil for reaaxing. I like neroli so much I could swim in it. Is it true that frankincense oil(my second favourite) that comes from Brunnei is much superior that all other oils of this type? I read that somewhere.
I love Neroli too Nikola! Is there anything better than an orange blossom.
Yes almost all Frankincense is grown primarily in the Middle East, Northern Africa, and India.
I knew that oil has very positive impact on face skin, but I didn’t know there are too many of them that I can use on my face. I personally was using vitamin E in oil, but after reading your article, definitely willing to experiment. I just wonder, what is the best way to keep all the oils once I mixed them? Does it make any difference if I keep it in a fridge?
Hi Luda, They will keep indefinitely if you keep them protected from sunlight in a cool place.
I really am thinking about getting this for my wife as I am a big fan of oils. I even use it as a perfume as it can release more natural body smell. I love how detailed you are with you review of each oil. I will definitely look into the oils you recommended. Thanks!
Thanks for the visit Ralph. Sweet!
Essential oils are found from natural sources, that’s why it has so adverse effects. People who want to remove wrinkles, pimple, acne or any other skin spot, they can take help from essential oils.
Thank you for this long and very useful and informative post. Hope you will write more articles regarding skin care and essential oils.
I just know that is very good for the skin and it has a very positive effect. Thanks for posting this one!
what recipe should I use for daytime skincare
Hi Joyce, If your skin is on the drier side, then go ahead and use this same formula for daytime use also. I do. I just put a thin layer on first thing and then let it absorb for a few minutes before applying makeup or other moisturizers. The magic is in the essential oils combined with jojoba and pomegranate oils.
Excellent article and recipe, something I’m going to try. Less expense on creams and syrums and more natural.
Any idea on recipes for itchy skin
Thanks again
Hi Paul! Here’s a link to a post on 10 Home Remedies for Itching skin. Also, About a year ago I had a rash that itched horribly. It went on for months until I discovered Urban Shield. I did a postscript in the post about it. It’s miracle cream and I’m not kidding! Hope it helps you too!
Among the essential oils that you have mentioned I’d like to try the rose oil.I think it is a good product and I like the fact that it can improve the texture and the tone of my skin. I hope it’s effective and I’m looking forward to it.
I am excited to try your recipe for wrinkles! I will take before and after photos once I begin the nighttime regimen. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us!
You are so welcome and I look forward to hearing back from you!