Natural skincare ingredients to achieve your #skincaregoals
The beauty market is flooded with new products every day making it harder to choose just the right product for your needs. A lot of products look like they have similar functions and features. Sometimes, the products you buy don’t live up to the blogger reviews. How can you choose what’s right for you amidst all these products? The key is looking at the ingredients. Let’s talk about interesting natural skincare ingredients that are best to treat your specific skincare goals!
Skincare Goal #1: Hydration
Hydration is an essential part of a healthy skin. It’s beneficial for all skin types, and the first step to achieving other skin goals.
Prickly Pear (Cactus)
Rich in vitamin A, D, E, and K, prickly pear cactus helps your skin retain moisture. It can keep your skin hydrated even in the most dry environments. Just consider how the cactus plant itself is known for its resilience in the desert!
Mugwort
Packed with antioxidants and vitamin E, Mugwort is well known for treating skin sensitivities and redness, but it’s also a great skin hydrator that nourishes and improves the skin barrier.
Sunflower Seed Oil
Sunflower seed oil’s emollient properties help the skin retain its moisture while its Vitamin E component provides a protective hydration barrier for the skin. Not to mention, a great source of beta-carotene rich in vitamin A, C, and D!
Skincare Goal #2: Brightening
Are you craving that K-Beauty glow? Do you want to brighten your dull skin tone? Here are your go-to ingredients!
Rose Water
Rose water has anti-inflammatory properties that can help reduce redness and hyperpigmentation. It revitalizes your skin, evens out your skin tone, and gives you a healthy radiance that promotes skin clarity.
Licorice
Glabridin, liquiritin, and licochalcone compounds of the licorice plant inhibit pigmentation. Thus, licorice extract in skin care is great for improving uneven skin tone and lightening dark spots.
Mulberry
Mulberry fruit has anti-inflammatory properties that naturally works to improve hyperpigmentation. It especially helps lighten dark spots caused by sunlight exposure.
Skincare Goal #3: Soothing/Healing
Is your skin under stress? Does your skin get easily irritated? It’s vital to soothe your skin from daily stress and environmental damage.
Golden Chamomile
Well known for its anti-inflammatory and skin soothing properties, golden chamomile works to soothe and heal the skin, especially useful for inflamed or sensitive skin.
Centella Asiatica
Centella Asiatica is a medicinal herb that we come across often in Korean skin care. It consists of various skin loving compounds including madecassoside that wondrously heal and soothe the skin.
Propolis Extract
Propolis extract has healing, antiseptic and restorative capabilities. It helps to balance and soothe problematic skin while promoting cell regeneration.
Skincare Goal #4: Anti-aging/Anti-wrinkle
Worried about skin aging? Here are the ingredients you can find from nature to help you achieve smooth and youthful skin.
Pomegranate
Pomegranate is often called anti-aging “Super Fruit.” Rich in polyphenols, pomegranate can protect the skin from premature aging while reducing signs of aging caused by UV damage.
Marula Oil
Marula oil is high in antioxidants, essential fatty acids, and amino acids. Its nourishing components and lasting moisture retention capabilities make marula oil an ideal anti-aging ingredient.
Manuka Honey
Packed with antioxidants, Manuka honey fights aging by minimizing fine lines and wrinkles. Manuka honey also inhibits MMPs – a group of enzymes known to destroy collagen.
Some of these ingredients are sure to be already in skin care that you use! Let us know which ones you are most familiar with.
