Avocado Oil Beauty Benefits

Avocado Oil Beauty Benefits are countless, if you eat it or use it on your skin!

Iḿ pretty sure that avocados already play a major role in your everyday life. Whether you eat it  directly or cook with its oil, the uses of avocado are far from limited. As it turns out, avocado oil is just as impressive when applied topically as it is when you eat it, but here is why you want use it on your skin and believe it really is a top-notch ingredient for your overall health and your skin. 

What Is Avocado Oil?

Avocado oil is derived from–you guessed it–an avocado. It has many vital nutrients, but here is a refresher on what those are just in case. Avocado has very, very high fiber, low sugar, and it has all the multivitamin cofactors that we need (potassium, sodium, magnesium, vitamins A, C, and K, folic acid, vitamin B6, and niacin). It also has a very strong antioxidant activity and a high concentration of monounsaturated fat.

Avocado oil helps the skin in many ways, and for that reason, you’ll find it in various masks, creams, and moisturizers.

Avocado oil beauty benefits 

• • Promotes and affects total collagen content: Although more studies are needed to show whether avocado oil increases collagen or not,  it decreases all the pathways that break down your collagen more.
  • Minimizes damage: Avocados and avocado oil are excellent sources of antioxidants, such as vitamin E, which help to absorb free radicals so we can protect ourselves from environmental damage.
  • Increases metabolic energy process in mitochondria: Even mitochondria function is better when you take avocado oil. It does that by decreasing the free radicals and by decreasing lipid peroxidation. We want the energy production up in the skin because we want the cell renewal. Lipid peroxidation is protection of the lipid cell membrane of the cells, so we want that from the skin also.

• • Helps skin maintain hydration: Avocado oil can act as an emollient and has occlusive properties. What this means is that it both softens the skin and traps humectants and emollients onto skin.
  • Minimizes inflammation: You might think that you wouldn’t want to put oil on acne-prone skin, but in this case, putting avocado oil on everything from eczema and psoriasis to seborrheic dermatitis and acne because of its anti-inflammatory properties. It’s not going to clog your glands and cause more acne because, in reality, acne isn’t just clogged glands, It’s a little bit more of an inflammatory process, so using anti-inflammatory properties would be great for it.