Everyone's skin needs nourishment, to enhance the ability to heal and to provide protection against the elements. Some people's skin is naturally balanced, but there are many who are not so fortunate and need help to restore the balance to their skin.

We formulate your skin's need mainly by considering:

• Prevention and management of skin aging
• Prevention and management of actinic keratosis
• Antibacterial Effects
• The Antimicrobial Barrier
• Skin Barrier Repair
• Wound Healing
• Permeability Enhancers
• Antioxidant Effects
• Anti-inflammatory Effects

Your skin needs freely available fatty acids like omega-3s and omega-6s which are the building blocks of healthy cell membranes. Other fatty acids play important roles, so making sure that they are available rather than being bound up is an important consideration.

Although all oils are mainly composed of fatty acids, they are mostly contained in triglycerides. A triglyceride is created when 3 fatty acids combine with a glycerol molecule. They are created in an esterification process and are broken down by the introduction of water via hydrolysys.

Triglycerides keep the oil stable and an excess of FFAs often means that the oil will go rancid quickly, so this balalnce is important. One of the reasons why we favour Rice Bran Oil is that it contains up to 5 times as many FFAs as most other oils whilst being stable, probably due to the presence of oryzanol.

Oils are also composed of many other chemicals, may of which have theraputic effects in their own right. These components include the following:

Other Components:

• Terpene hydrocarbons
• Monoterpene hydrocarbons
• Sesquiterpenes
• Oxygenated compounds
• Phenols
• Alcohols
• Monoterpene alcohols
• Sesquiterpene alcohols
• Aldehydes
• Ketones
• Esters
• Lactones
• Coumarins
• Ethers

Each oil has a unique combination of these elements all of which determine the effects that it has. It is a complex area of study but we have done our best to do the homework for you!