Importance of Body oils before a bath
Taking a bath and using body oils before taking a bath is quite usual with everybody. If you massage your body with body oils, you tend to get the fresh feeling all the more. Your muscles get more relaxed. Body oils are made in a way that they are used (read massaged) just before a bath (especially before going out anywhere). Body oils are available in mostly all the healthcare stores. There is also a possibility that body oils can be made at home too. The basic thing which one must know is which of the body oils would suit your skin texture and skin type the best. There are few body oils which have a tendency to become greasy just after a massage – while there are more such body oils which have a tendency to turn stale. Those body oils falling in the second category leaves an unpleasant smell on the body after being massaged, more so if the body oil has been prepared at home.
Why use Body oils?
Following are the three basic reasons why body oils are used before a bath. They are -
Body oils which are regularly used before a bath has all the qualities of leaving a softening and nourishing effect on the skin. It is also helpful to ease out the dry and itchy skin patches.
Massage the body oils on your skin gently, as they can open up the skin pores and the skin absorbs the essential oil components of the body oils leaving an aromatic sense.
To put it simply, body oils help the skin to stay healthy.
After a stressful day who wouldn’t want a refreshing body massage with body oils? Majority of the body oils in the market have essential oils as the main component in them which in turn relaxes your muscles. These days, you easily get base oils or a carrier oils in most of the health stores, department stores and also in supermarkets. For making body oils at home, you shall have to blend the base oils together with the essential oils (it can also be a combination of essential oils which you like) in a clean container. And you can use it thereafter. The body oils which are commercially sold in the market, usually they contain single base oil (for instance the sweet almond oil or avocado oil). There are also various luxury spas where they use a variety of blended body oils – containing more than two massage oils.
Base oils in Body Oils
- Sweet almond oil
- Coconut oil
- Sesame, nut oil
- Jojoba oil
- Avocado oil
- Shea butter
- Cocoa butter
- Grape seed oil
- Kukui nut oil
- Wheat germ oil
- Apricot kernel oil
- Vitamin E oil
- Olive oil
You should first know which type of body oils suits your skin the best. See that your skin is not prone to any kind of allergies in the components of the body oils. If you have an allergy tendency, know the ingredients first. The bulk choice in the market is the sweet almond oil – being pale yellowish in color, it gets quickly absorbed by the skin. They do not cause irritation in the skin.
Top Branded Body Oils
- Sephora Brand Dry Oil, $8 – $10
- Carol’s Daughter Ecstasy, $20 – $30
- Clarins Tonic Body Treatment Oil, $50
- Fresh Sugar Body Oil, $45
- L’Occitane Amande Shower Oil, $22
- Sephora Brand Divine Oil, $18
- Guerlain Terracotta Huile De Voyageur Nourishing Dry Oil Illuminating Tan Intensifier SPF 8, $59
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