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The final crowning step of your skin care routine—moisturizing is mission critical for your skin, preparing your skin to face the day. Skipping this step may be akin to leaving home without the proper layer of clothing on. Your moisturizer provides a vital layer, coating your skin with hydration, nourishment and protection.
Not only does moisturizing lock in and drive your serum’s activated ingredients deeper into your skin, but it also strengthens your skin barrier, helping firm and tone the appearance of your skin and keeping it healthy. Certain natural moisturizers deliver nourishing ingredients to your skin, hydrating and transforming the appearance of your skin’s health and texture. The right moisturizer also acts as a protective shield for your skin against environmental irritants.
At Annmarie Skin Care, we believe natural oils provide the best moisturization for any skin type. We’ve formulated our facial oils with wildcrafted ingredients using our proprietary 3-step infusion process. Our facial oils’ activated ingredients protect your skin against environmental stressors, lock in your skin’s moisture layer, and fortify it with vitamins, antioxidants and nutrients—everything your skin needs to thrive.
We’re here to help you make the best decision in finding the ideal facial oil for your skin type. Read on to find the perfect facial oil for your skin needs.
How do you know which facial oil to use?
The best facial oil for your skin depends on your skin type. Remember that your skin type may change with the environment, age, diet and hormones—so you may need different facial oils depending on your circumstances. Ask yourself the following questions before deciding on the best facial oil for you.
What is your skin type?
Skin types fall into 5 main categories: normal, oily, dry, combination and sensitive. Try gently washing your face and leaving it to dry for 30 minutes. If your skin remains dewy with a sheen throughout this time, you most likely have oily skin. If your skin gets tight and dehydrated, you probably have dry skin. Your skin can also be a combination of both, and if your skin doesn’t lean either way, you’re most likely normal.
What other factors are affecting your skin type?
Consider the climate you live in—is it dry and arid or humid? Or perhaps the changes between the four seasons affect your skin differently. Are there times when you’re traveling or more active? Has your diet changed, or have you introduced new medications or supplements? Depending on your body and age, hormones can also affect your skin. Your skin will most likely reflect the changes life invariably takes you through, so observe and listen to your skin.
Annmarie Skin Care Facial Oil Guide
We carefully formulated our facial oils to meet various skin needs—protecting, hydrating and balancing every skin type. Let this guide help you navigate our 7 facial oils and find the perfect facial oil for your skin.
The simple and effective facial oil is the perfect introduction to Annmarie Skin Care products, formulated with wildcrafted plant-based ingredients but without any of our signature herb infusions. This natural face oil promotes soft, dewy skin with fourteen potent plant botanicals. Rich, nourishing oils such as tamanu, argan, golden jojoba and hemp restore the look of elasticity in your skin. Antioxidant-rich sea buckthorn berry extract protects, leaving your skin fortified and vibrant. A gorgeous scent of natural cedarwood, geranium and lavender oil creates a revitalizing experience.
Ideal for all skin types, this includes normal, combination, oily and sensitive skin types. Simply apply to clean skin or over your serum. Pump 1 to 2 full pumps into the palm of your hand—dab on your nose, chin, cheeks and forehead. Then blend with gentle strokes.
Lightly moisturizing, the Herbal Facial Oil for Oily Skin is a smooth and soft finishing oil specially designed to unclog pores and balance natural facial oils. The detoxifying herbal infusion includes cleansing botanicals like neem, white willow bark, rosemary and bitter orange peel in a base of fast-absorbing grapeseed oil that leaves you with a supple, radiant complexion. Carrot seed oil is excellent in holding moisture in your skin, while black cumin seed oil soothes the look of temporary redness.
This lightweight moisturizer is ideal for balancing oily skin and cleansing, moisturizing and calming skin for a bright, beautiful glow.
This nutritive, quick-absorbing facial oil soothes while delivering essential nutrients for healthy skin. Over 25 herb extracts are packed in this grapeseed-based formula, all touting various strains of skin rejuvenation. Our unique grapeseed oil base helps balance your skin’s natural oils. Skin-enriching oils—tamanu, passion fruit seed, buriti fruit—enhance your skin’s natural radiance. Antioxidants abound in violet leaves and raspberry seed oil (high in vitamin A), working in tandem with vitamin-rich amla berry, acai fruit and carrot seed. This light, skin-enriching formula is also packed with Vitamin E, which can strengthen and firm the look of your skin.
Ideal for nourishing skin with normal oil regulation or combination skin types. The Herbal Facial Oil for Normal and Combination Skin is a gentle and calming herbal blend that reduces the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and large pores, calms temporary skin sensitivities and leaves your skin radiant, soft and dewy.
This calming and soothing formula nourishes without irritating sensitive skin. Formulated without essential oils, our unscented moisturizing staple is gentle and features naturally omega-rich oils—sacha inchi and camellia seed—that nourish and revitalize skin. Our plant-based squalane helps retain your skin’s moisture. These nutritive ingredients work synergistically to calm and soothe temporary redness and skin sensitivities, making your skin supple and flexible.
Though formulated for sensitive skin types, this essential oil free facial oil is also an excellent moisturizer for dry to normal, mature and combination skin types.
This rich, herb-infused formula delivers intense moisture to keep dry and mature skin supple and dewy. Over 13 different seed oils, including antioxidant-rich chia, goji berry and broccoli seeds, reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles while firming and tightening your skin. Jojoba oil resembles your skin’s natural oil, softening and conditioning mature skin. Nutritive plantago soothes dry skin while purifying and toning, while vitamin-rich red raspberry oil helps to plump and soften your skin. These potent wildcrafted ingredients—over 45 included in this formulation—all work to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and firm and tighten the look of your glow for a vibrant, rejuvenated complexion.
Ideal for dry, mature and sensitive skin but also great for normal and combination skin types, the Anti-Aging Facial Oil is a skin routine powerhouse, staving off fine lines and wrinkles while providing nourishment and moisture all day long. Soften and beautify your skin with the Anti-Aging Facial Oil, one of our top sellers, and experience its proven nature-derived ingredients.
This limited edition facial oil was created with organic and wildcrafted ingredients from our owners, Annmarie and Kevin Gianni’s own Moss Creek Farm. Protective and nutrient-dense, this uplifting blend harnesses the power of our Estate Blend Collection’s herbal infusion—comfrey, St. John’s wort, echinacea, chamomile, lavender, wild rose, plantain, feverfew and calendula. These tried-and-true herbs, paired with antioxidant-rich seed oils, nourish and deeply moisturize aging skin. Rich jojoba oil provides the base of this facial oil, quickly absorbing into your skin, leaving it soft, plump and radiant. Pumpkin seed oil firms, tightens and protects your skin from environmental stressors, providing long-lasting moisturization. Aromatherapy notes are uplifting and awakening, while tulsi also brings heart-opening energy.
The Divine Woman Elixir is ideal for any skin type, including dry and mature skin. Providing rich moisturization, this facial oil is also ideal for sensitive or irritated skin. With continued use, you’ll notice the softer, firmer, plumper and brighter appearance of your complexion that is calmed and soothed for a moisturized and radiant glow.
Our most complex, luxurious facial oil is a part of our Wild Alchemy Collection. Anchored by organic golden jojoba oil and infused with antioxidant-rich butterfly pea flowers, this intentionally-sourced elixir soothes, softens and rejuvenates your skin. A synergistic blend of moisture-binding mongongo oil and black cumin seed oil—combined with vitamin C-rich baobab—brightens, purifies and revitalizes dull complexions while fading the appearance of dark spots. Potent, energizing oils of marula, copaiba balsam and andiroba hydrate, soften and improve the look of your skin’s texture and elasticity, also soothing temporary redness and sensitivities. This decadent facial oil is finished with luxe essential oils of blue tansy and helichrysum for a calm, vibrant glow and a delicious herbaceous sensory experience.
Ideal for truly all skin types—including dry, mature and sensitive skin—this globally-sourced facial oil soothes, moisturizes and softens, leaving your skin plump, youthful and radiant.
Which facial oil will you choose?
If you’re still having a hard time determining which facial oil to choose, take our tailored skin assessment or schedule a skin consultation with one of our knowledgeable skin care experts.
Once you’ve decided on a facial oil, try it out and listen to your skin. Notice if your skin’s still feeling too dry or is sensitive. Also, avoid these common mistakes when using facial oil as a moisturizer. Try spritzing toner to help carry your facial oil into your skin. You can also try using different facial oils, perhaps a lighter one in the morning and a richer one in the evening. Continue exploring until you land on the perfect facial oil for your skin needs. Also, allow your skin some time to transition, especially when you’ve just begun using natural products.
As your skin matures, an effective facial oil can make all the difference in nourishing and improving your complexion. Round out your ideal anti-aging skin care routine with effective, plant-based facial oils that restore your radiant complexion.
Hello, I am a 67 year old woman with aging normal to oily skin. I have recently been experiencing bouts of rosacea and redness. I use the anti aging serum and I love it but I would like to add an oil to my routine. I am wondering, in your opinion, what oil would be best for me. Thank you for any help!
Hey Katherine! Unfortunately, due to very strict FDA regulations, we are unable to recommend, diagnose, suggest, or prescribe any of our products for any specific purpose, including rosacea. We do, however, suggest working with a holistic practitioner to figure out what your potential triggers are that are causing your rosacea.
I am happy to give you information on caring for sensitive skin, if that is something that you’re concerned about.
Here is our quick guide for what generally works best to alleviate temporary redness or discomfort. (Complete ingredient lists and instructions are on each product page of our website.)
1-2 times per day:
Aloe Herb Cleanser: Mildly massage into damp skin and gently remove with warm water. This creamy, pH balanced cleanser has calming properties.
Neroli Toning Mist: Use 2-4 spritzes as often as you like for a boost of soothing hydration.
Probiotic Serum with Tremella: Pump a small amount into your palm. With your other hand dab the serum around your face, then gently blend in. This aloe based product will cool, hydrate and nourish the skin. Restorative herbs work together with a concentrated blend of skin-reviving probiotics to bring skin back to a state of balance.
Herbal Facial Oil for Sensitive Skin (Formerly Unscented Facial Oil): Pump a small amount into your palm. With your other hand dab the oil around your face, then gently blend in. This product moisturizes and nourishes the skin.
1-2 times per week:
Ayurvedic Facial Scrub: Make a paste in your hand by blending about a half-teaspoon of the scrub powder with 2-3 pumps of cleanser and a few drops of water. Use this mix to gently scrub and cleanse your face, then rinse off. This important exfoliating step helps prepare the skin to absorb nutrients.
Coconut Honey Mask: After cleansing apply this indulgent mask generously, including around the eyes. For deep penetration, warm skin first with a warm wash cloth or apply while soaking in a hot bath. Leave on for at least 15 minutes. Gently remove with a wet cloth and pat skin dry. This mask will truly leave your skin radiant and glowing!
Sensitive skin is so unique, just like you! Please spot-test all products to check for allergic reaction or flare-up.