Sunflower Oil (Helianthus annuus)

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🌼 Quick Look: Highly Absorbent & Vitamin E Rich. 

🌿 Treatments: natural aging, dry skin, acne-prone skin

🌻 Best used as: Face or Body Moisturizer, Balm

💐 Best combined with: Additional extract of your choice. 

💟  Benefits: A highly absorbent non-comedogenic oil (won't block pores) that can be used on dry, oily, sensitive or acne-prone skin. Sunflower oil prevents UV ray damage, heals damaged skin and also fights against post-inflammatory hyper-pigmentation. Those with dark spots left behind by acne will benefit from regular use of sunflower seed oil.

💜 A 2012 study compared olive oil and sunflower seed oil, topical treatment. Olive oil significantly damages the skin barrier, and therefore has the potential to promote the development of, and exacerbate existing, atopic dermatitis. Sunflower seed oil on the other hand significantly improved skin texture and dark spots.

⚠️ Caution: Not Applicable.

💲 Approximate cost: $5.00 - $10.00 CAD

💲 1 fl. oz. cost: $2.00 CAD