It begins with organic, natural plant oils that work with your skin to enhance its health.

That maximizes your innate beauty.

You're Not the First Generation to Want to Look Beautiful

For thousands of years, women (and many men) have sought ways to keep their skin -- especially their faces -- looking young and attractive.

For most of history, all women except a tiny percentage of the wealthy and the aristocrats have had to deal with exposure to wind, dirt, smoke, dry air, salt water and the sun's ultraviolet radiation.

Inevitably, these stressors damaged a lot of faces.

Most men as well as women led rough lives that often damaged skin.

Beneficial Plants Grow All Over the Globe

Over time, people around the world have discovered an astonishingly wide variety of plants that help skin renew itself, sooth inflamed areas, moisturize dry sections, rebuild collagen to smooth out wrinkles and relieve even the most stubborn conditions such as acne, psoriasis and eczema. 

Although many of these oils have names you probably don't recognize, are from trees you've never seen, with fruits you've never eaten, traditionally they've been used by local people for hundreds if not thousands of years. 

They've helped many people keep their skin healthy and beautiful despite dry desert weather, jungles and droughts.

Buying Natural Skin and Beauty Oils Benefits Emerging Economies

Many of them are still produced locally by rural working people who might otherwise have nothing to offer the world's economy. Your purchase of some of these oils gives these people -- many of them women's cooperatives -- an economic incentive to preserve their local environments.

The oils from the developed world often come from small family farms.

That poses a challenge to the mainstream cosmetic industry.

The Rise of the Consumer Cosmetics Industry

The history of cosmetics and skin care goes back thousands of years, but, until the early 20th century, it was a small-scale enterprise. 

Beginning around 1910, the cosmetic giants introduced mass produced skin care lines: Elizabeth Arden. Helena Rubenstein. Max Factor. They used technological innovations to distribute their products and spread the word.

Mass magazines directed toward women. Radio advertising. Department stores.

Beginning with the 1920's, modern marketing and modern science teamed up to target modern women. Before World War 2, Revlon joined the marketplace. After that war, Estee Lauder.

Of course, the advent of TV in the 1950s spread the word even more.

Before long, the old folk remedies seemed suitable only for the proverbial old wives. 

Modern women knew true beauty came from drugstores and supermarkets.

The Counterculture

However, since the 1960's, there's been a countertrend. The environmental movement. The green revolution. Hippies going back to the land.

Many women questioned the need for or validity of using makeup and other products for the sole purpose of pleasing men.

And in recent years, we've discovered the best skincare and other beauty products are not the super synthetic creams and gels we buy at the chain drugstores, but the natural oils, many of them first discovered by people we might label as "primitive."

Yet, modern science has discovered their ingredients. And researched why they are so effective. 

And helps them to be processed for total purity, so you get the best oil, and nothing but that oil.

Unfortunately, many women are still fooled by all the propaganda from the big name corporate cosmetic companies.

They don't understand they'll look more beautiful - and that beauty will last far into "old age" -- only by working WITH your skin, its cells and its glands. 

You must nourish your skin instead of force-feeding it with goop even a rat wouldn't eat.

Such healthy oils include:

* Argan

* Mango butter

* Batana

* Avocado wax

* Jojoba

* Kalahari melon seed

* Marula

* Mongongo

* Shea

And many others.

Getting to Know Your Skin - Deeply

That's the best way to understand why cheap, commercial products damage your appearance in the long run.

And healthy oils keep you beautiful for as long as you live.

Your skin is composed of two parts, the epidermis and the dermis.

The epidermis is on the outside. Its primary purpose is to retain your body's moisture and to block invasion by microbes and viruses.

The dermis is primarily composed of elastin and collagen.

These are strong proteins that help to hold us together. However, as we age, they weaken. This explains why older people have sagging, weak and thin skin.

Your Skin's Deep, Inner Structural Support

Collagen is the main thing holding your skin on and up. 

Elastin is what enables skin to stretch and yet return to its previous state. One way often suggested for people to test how biologically old they are, is to put one hand flat in front of you on a table or desk top. Pinch a thick fold of the skin on the back of your hand, then release it. The longer it takes to return to its original position, the older you are. A young person's skin will snap right back.

The main purpose of the dermis is to support the epidermis, both physically and nutritionally. When your collagen is damaged, that ages your skin.

Protect Your Outer Skin

Take pity on your poor skin. Because it's covering you on the outside, it's exposed to a lot of stressors your liver and your gall bladder never have to worry about.

Wind. Smog. Smoke. Water. Dirt. Dry air in low humidity. Ultraviolet radiation from the sun.

Your skin suffers from these problems so your pancreas doesn't have to.

It pays a high price in being scraped and bumped and worn down by your environment.

But it also has a big advantage. You can apply healthy oils directly to your skin. You can't do that to your lungs.

As you try and use natural oils, you'll appreciate how they make your skin shine.