How to moisturize the skin with olive oil

It’s our body’s largest organ and it’s what protects us from atmospheric agents and the external environment. The skin is one of our most valid and resistant well-being allies, but for this very reason it’s important to take care of it in the best way. Continuous exposure to wear, external agents, aggressive soaps and detergents, synthetic materials, can cause long term damage, anticipating the aging process or causing a specific weakening with irritations and dermatitis.

Among the best allies of our skin well-being is olive oil. Thanks to its strong hydrating and emollient properties, it provides rich nourishment to the skin making it instantly soft, smooth and radiant. Green gold of the ancients, olive oil has always been considered a beauty and wellness product, capable of giving a hydrated and soft skin and a general wellness even in the most delicate areas. Rich in vitamins A, E and K, olive oil is a true concentrate of anti-aging active ingredients, which are able to delay the aging process, reduce furrows and wrinkles, nourish delicate areas such as the eye contour and restore skin’s brightness.

Olive oil is not only suitable for mature skin: due to its emollient properties, it’s the ideal ingredient for newborns and children’ more delicate skin, perhaps reddened by diaper rashes or irritated. Just a few drops of pure extra virgin olive oil on the skin are enough to obtain an immediate benefit and long-lasting relief. Oil helps also in repairing the skin tissue damaged by wounds or sunburn.Thanks to the fatty acids and polyphenols contained in it, olive oil is also ideal for moisturizing dry skin due to the cold and soothing redness due to temperature changes, even for younger faces.

Why It’s important to keep your skin hydrated

Moisturizing the skin is the greatest help we can give against wrinkles formation, premature aging prevention and the appearance of red, irritated areas due to dermatitis. A hydrated skin is an elastic and soft skin, which is able to withstand external agents aggressions without being damaged. On the contrary, a poorly hydrated skin suffers the breakage of the elastic and collagen fibers, with a more likely appearance of wrinkles and small expression lines. 

To keep your skin hydrated, it’s important to act from the inside and the outside at the same time. Drinking enough water during the day prevents excessive fluid loss and maintains the physiological water balance, an ally against skin aging. Not only drinking, but also eating foods, such as fruit and vegetables, rich in water and vitamins and minerals such as lycopene and beta-carotene is a good support for the maintaining of a proper hydration.

However, it’s not enough to act internally, but it’s important to dedicate yourself to external skin care through the application of creams, oils and products dedicated to skin’s wellness. In fact, cosmetics with a topical and directed actionto help maintain the lipid film that covers the skin and protects it from external agents that can trigger, among other things, cutaneous dehydration.

Olive oil, how to use it to moisturize the skin

Naturally present in human sebum, squalene is the element that gives elasticity and softness to the skin. Over the years, the production slows down due to skin aging and for this reason it’s important to integrate it through specific cosmetics and foods. Olive oil is an ingredient particularly rich in squalene, to which it largely owes its protective and soothing properties. For this reason, our Anti-Age Day Cream and our Anti-Age Night Cream are rich in squalene and are able to give natural hydration and brightness to the face’s skin from the first application, reducing chapping and redness.

Skin’s hydration, especially that of the face, doesn’t happen only with the application of specific creams. It’s also important to choose beauty products, useful for cleansing, capable of eliminating wastes and dirt without being aggressive. Olive oil is an effective natural make-up remover, capable of eliminating every trace of make-up while hydrating the skin at the same time. Our olive oil facial treatments, the Face Serum and the Gold Drops Face Oil can be used also for this purpose. The Face Oil can be applied to damp skin to remove make-up. After cleansing with a delicate soap, the Face Serum massaged into the skin with small circular movements can restore the skin’s physiological balance and keep it hydrated.

If it is important to keep the face’s skin hydrated, we mustn’t forget the body. For this reason, it’s useful to include in the evening routine a moment dedicated to legs, arms and stomach’ massage with natural beauty products designed specifically. Avilo’s Body Cream is enriched with Shea butter, Aloe vera and Guarana extract: if applied after a hot bath or shower, it makes the skin extremely soft and elastic.

However, the hands and nails are the most delicate areas and the most exposed to external agents, cold, detergents and possible cracks. For this reason, it’s important to keep them hydrated with specially formulated creams, such as our Hand Cream enriched with glycerin, aloe vera and hyaluronic acid. Applying the cream in the morning and in the evening gives softness to the skin and takes care of the nails, making them strong and nourished.