One ingredient! That really is all you need to keep your skin silky smooth, soft and hydrated (without feeling greasy). Why did we ever use anything else? No artificial fragrances, preservatives or additives needed here, just a pure and natural ingredient that does the job.
It comes in a recyclable 100ml glass jar. A very useful size jar for reuse (in the kitchen) too once you’ve finished off the watermelon seed oil as well, very handy indeed.
….The quest to find a plastic-free moisturiser that didn’t make my skin feel like I’d poured a vat of grease onto it was very long and arduous. Going plastic-free often also as a by-product means switching to ‘all-natural’ ingredients, which don’t work quite the same as the long list of ingredients we are used to rubbing all over our mug. These plastic packaged perfect products we are used to are, as you all know from the adverts, made in super shiny cosmetic labs, with everyone who works there looking like a god or goddess playing human. Whether this is the reality or not, these cosmetics are tailored specifically to do something, with a moisturiser that is mainly to make your skin feel hydrated but not greasy. In moving away from the brands and their shiny labs, you end up with products which can seem quite heavy, thick, and greasy in comparison, as they don’t have lots of extra ingredients to balance out these qualities which are seen as negative by the person applying the product to their face.
A lovely mixture of ‘all-natural’ ingredients sounds delightful, and I have every wish to smear these kinds of products on my face instead of a load of chemically named ingredients I can’t pronounce, but unfortunately, if these ‘all-natural’ ingredients don’t perform, we are unlikely to move en-masse away from these plastic packaged super lab-created products.
So, after much experimentation with many different plastic-free moisturisers, I found some products which I thought lived up to these expectations, and they are made of one ingredient. All-natural indeed! It seems to me like most of the problem was the combination of many naturally moisturising ingredients, as this would make the product thick, heavy, greasy etc.
So voila! Problem solved. Bet you are glad I’ve worked this out for you, as that is what I am here for, to be the monkey to test on.
You can also use this oil as a cleanser to remove makeup and clean your skin. Although it seems mad if your skin is oily to use oil to clean/moisturise, it helps your skin work out how much oil it should be producing, which helps to balance your skin and makes it less greasy over time. It is the same concept if you have tried the ‘no-poo’ (no shampoo) method of cleaning your hair, by stopping using products which strip your skin or hair of their natural oils, (this would be sulphates in shampoo and alcohol-based ingredients in moisturiser), you allow your skin/hair to do the job itself. Your body is quite effective and cleaning itself (to an extent obviously) in this way, but there is often a transition period while your body gets used to regulating its oil production all by itself again. This may for some people mean a breakout of spots that were hiding just under the surface before your skin settles down. Just keep going for a few weeks while your body learns how to do its job properly again. After this, your skin shouldn’t end up with an excess build-up of grease like it did before, which also helps in reducing spots and blackheads. Great news for those who are breakout prone! This method isn’t necessarily a ‘cure-all’ for oily skin, but for the majority of us, it should help keep your skin a bit more in check than it was before. Personally, my very oily spot prone skin felt better almost immediately after starting using this watermelon seed oil. After a couple of weeks use of the oil I went back to a previous moisturiser (that had an alcohol-based ingredient in it) for a few days and it felt like it was drying my skin out rather than moisturising, I was stunned!
