Your skin is your body's largest organ, with the average adult having about eight pounds of

skin. And with all that your skin does to protect you from the outside world, you should make

sure that you're showing it a little bit of love.

Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Dutera, the podcast where you'll hear exciting,

useful, and simple everyday uses for essential oils from experts in the field.

If you like what you hear today, rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen. We always appreciate hearing from you. Today we're excited to talk to Samantha Lewis,

a member of the Dutera product marketing team about using essential oils as part of a natural

skin care routine.

Samantha, thank you for sitting down with us today.

Thanks so much for having me.

Now, my first question is,

what are some of the benefits that essential oils can have for my skin?

The possibilities are really endless,

but the most prominent skin benefits you could

experience from essential oils are improve skin texture, soothing, irritated skin, and overall skin

nourishment. When it comes to skincare, I group skin essential oils into three categories,

which tend to overlap in a Venn diagram type of way. You have your trees and resins, which tend to help

improve the look and feel of your skin, then the florals, which often are associated with a

glowing complexion and soothing, irritated skin. And then you have your herbs, which generally

helps soothe skin while providing powerful cleansing benefits. And what are some oils you recommend using as part of

my personal skin care routine? Within each of the categories mentioned, there are a few hero oils that I

recommend as a starting point for most people. I also like to suggest starting with blends and then

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