| Although walnut oil is used in cookery, it is an | | | | pampered in luxury, and the ideal solution to an |
| excellent skin care oil that leaves your skin feeling | | | | evening in yourself with a long hot bath, a glass of |
| soft and smooth, and you feeling great. When you | | | | wine a box of chocolates. And a body rub with lovely |
| consider that its major ingredients include Omega-3 | | | | aromatic luxurious walnut oil. |
| fatty acids that are very easily absorbed by the skin, | | | | You won't get that with any of the many commercial |
| it is little wonder that this oil is such a popular natural | | | | products that claim to do the same as walnut oil. Be |
| skin care product. | | | | careful when you buy walnut oil skin care products |
| A major problem with the commercial skin care oils | | | | and check the label carefully for any synthetic |
| and lotions available in most stores is that they | | | | ingredients. This contains none - just walnut oil. |
| contain synthetic chemicals such as detergents and | | | | When checking labels, look particularly for sodium |
| surfactants that can irritate your skin. You might not | | | | lauryl sulfate, or laureth sulfate (same thing): that is a |
| notice at first, but eventually might feel a tightening | | | | chemical foam stabilizer that can irritate your skin and |
| as your skin dries up, rather than being left with a | | | | even cause hair loss. You will find this surfactant in |
| silky feeling such as that provided by walnut oil. This | | | | bath products because it is relatively cheap and is |
| drying sensation is caused by the astringency of | | | | used in several different types of cosmetic product |
| many modern cheap 'skin care' products formulated | | | | that involve foam. This is just one example of the |
| with inexpensive mass-produced chemicals. | | | | type of ingredient that you can find in synthetic |
| This is not the case with skin care products based | | | | cosmetic products that you will not find in natural |
| upon walnut oil. That is because, rather than | | | | ones. |
| containing detergents that cleanse your skin fairly | | | | Walnut oil is particularly free of synthetic chemicals, |
| harshly, this is what is known as a regenerative oil | | | | and it too is used in bath products such as bath oils, |
| that is particularly effective on more mature skin | | | | and also in lip balms, lotions and face and body |
| where it possesses slight acidic properties that kills of | | | | creams. It is also used in anti-wrinkle creams for the |
| unwanted skin bacteria. Although it is particularly | | | | skin around the eyes and mouth, and also as a |
| effective on what is commonly known as acne skin, | | | | massage oil. The benefits of such a natural oil to the |
| walnut oil is also effective in soothing sunburned skin | | | | care of your skin cannot be over-emphasized, since |
| and eczema. | | | | many people have suffered skin damage and irritation |
| That does not mean to infer that the oil cannot be | | | | by coming into contact with the synthetic ingredients |
| used on normal skin; on the contrary - it is a very | | | | of commercial preparations. |
| smooth oil that makes your perfect skin feel | | | | |