While it may feel daunting at first, understanding how to layer your serums and oils is essential to ensure you're soaking up all of your products' rich benefits. Keep reading to discover the art of layering to enhance your skin’s natural beauty.
Why layer?
Elixirs, oils, concentrates and moisturizers have unique roles in nourishing and protecting your skin at different levels and in different ways. Simply put, elixirs hydrate. Oils nourish. Concentrates treat. Moisturizers keep toxins out, and hydration in. When you use these targeted products together, they can bring even greater replenishment and radiance.
Here's how to layer for optimal absorption:
1. Start With an Elixir
Elixirs are a potent skincare product with a powerful ability to hydrate, thanks to small molecules that allow them to penetrate deeply and infuse your skin cells with antioxidants that brighten, balance and calm the skin. After cleansing and misting your skin, apply a dime-sized amount of elixir morning and night to enhance the effects of your oils and creams. Elixirs deliver potent plant extracts, so be sure to spot test for a few days before moving into a regular routine of applying across the face and neck after cleansing.
Pure + Calm Infusion Refining Face Elixir: this serum clears pores, attracts moisture, and softens skin for a calm, clear, and radiant complexion.
Youth Infusion Hydrating Face Elixir: This elixir is perfect for those looking to deeply hydrate and rejuvenate their skin, helping to restore a youthful glow.
When you’re looking for the best elixir for your skin, Om’s minis are an affordable way to explore our pure, plant-based options.
2. Blend Elixir With Oil
Facial oils are packed with active ingredients that target specific concerns, from brightening to collagen-boosting to soothing sensitivity. Oils bond with lipids and fats in your skin, creating a smoother texture and locking in moisture.
Even skin that creates excess oils can benefit from facial oils, as they help to regulate your skin’s natural oil production. Blending your serum with oil allows the oil to penetrate deeper, ensuring that your skin stays hydrated, not just balanced.
Blending your water-based elixir and oil together before applying is pulls the oil deeper into the skin compared to using an oil on its own. If you were to use an oil without a serum, your skin cells might see evenness but still be dehydrated.
Rosehip + Black Cumin Clarifying Face Oil: This light oil helps form a protective barrier and regulates oil production.
Marula + Cactus Nourishing Face Oil: A luxurious blend that softens and firms skin with marula oil, prickly pear oil, and schisandra extract.
3. Treat With a Concentrate
If you're looking to target and treat a specific skin concern, add a few drops of a concentrate to your elixir and oil blend.
Clarity Purifying Concentrate is our favourite blemish-busting treatment that heals and treats breakouts thanks to a potent combination of blue tansy oil, black cumin seed oil and brightening rosehip oil.
Prickly Pear + Schisandra Youth Concentrate is an absolute powerhouse product when it comes to infusing mature skin with intense antioxidant action and ultra-high concentrations of the best ingredients on our shelves—including vitamin K to reduce dark spots and improve the appearance of scars and spider veins. Designed for those who are determined to take a proactive approach, this dense hit of rich nutrients will leave you feeling unbelievably soft, replenished and radiant.
4. Seal in Moisture With a Cream
If it suits your skin needs, moisture creams can bring a wax and emollient barrier to provide an extra function: staying power for that targeted hydration and moisture. If you use a moisturizer, applying lightest to heaviest—water-based serum to face oil to moisture cream—lets each step do its heavy lifting, and set the stage for the next layer, in this case, a powerful barrier.
Coconut Dew Hyaluronic Moisture Cream: Infused with hyaluronic acid, this cream deeply hydrates while coconut extracts provide a dewy finish, leaving your skin plump and glowing.
Gotu Kola + Squalane Hyaluronic Nourishing Cream: a deeply nourishing cream that leaves skin soft, hydrated and radiant.
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