CBD FOR SKINCARE

CBD is a natural beauty enhancer product, unlike other cosmetic products. It serves as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, reducing skin aging rate, preventing acne production, and acts as a moisturizer. You can get more skin benefits from CBD than you can get from vitamin C and E.

The 2018 farm bill led to an increase in industrial hemp production. This also led to an increase and the development of CBD skincare products. CBD products have proved to be helpful in health and wellness in alleviating pain and inflammation, stress, and depression. With a good skincare routine, one can look younger. Many skin-related conditions can be solved with a simple hack like a moisturizer. CBD skincare products include creams, lotions, and soaps. This article will explore how CBD helps in skincare and how you can use CBD to care for your skin. 

Causes of Skin Aging

Age

As you age, there is less collagen production. Collagen is a body-building protein found in bones, hair, muscles, and skin. It keeps the skin firm, giving you a youthful look. Your skin becomes weak, sags, and wrinkles when one has less collagen.

Exposure to UV Light

UV light can be from the sun or artificial sources like the lights used in tan beds. Long exposure to this light can cause sunburns and premature aging by the lost collagen. The effect of UV light is more severe if one has less melanin. Melanin absorbs much of the UV rays that can cause skin damage. That’s why you get a tan when you sunbathe for long.

Dehydration

Water in the body helps the skin by tightening the skin, flushing out toxins, reducing wrinkles, preventing pimples and acne, moisturizing, and increasing skin elasticity. Lack of water in the body makes it hard for the skin to achieve this making the skin age rapidly.

Smoking

Smoking can cause deeper wrinkles between the eyebrows, eyes, mouth, and lips. Smoking also contributes to the loss of collagen and elastin, which keeps the skin flexible and maintains skin shape even after stretching. Smoking accelerates the skin aging process by making the signs of aging more pronounced.

Repeated Facial Expression

Facial expressions result from skin movements; every time you make an expression, the skin makes a line underneath. With the loss of collagen and flexibility and repeated formation of this expression, the skin does not spring back to its original form.

How CBD for Skin Care Works

As an Anti-Aging Cream

 Casares et al. (2020) reported that  CBD has more antioxidants and has more anti-inflammatory properties than vitamin C & E. Antioxidants help remove free radicals and toxins from the body and collagen fibers. In contrast, anti-inflammatory helps the skin relax and treats eczema and skin psoriasis. CBD also encourages sebum production; sebum is a waxy substance produced by the sebaceous gland to coat, moisturize and protect the skin by soothing sensitive skin. CBD regulates sebaceous glands for optimal production of sebum. The Omega 3 in CBD also moistures the skin.

CBD prevents Acne Production

Acne can be caused by excessive sebum production, hair follicles clogged by dead skin or oil, bacteria, or inflammation. Acne mostly occurs in areas with most sebaceous glands like the face. When sebum mixes with dead skin cells clogging the skin pores. CBD oil is light and easily penetrates such pores. CBD optimizes sebum production and cleans the clogged pore because of its anti-inflammatory properties. Peyravian et al. (2022) found that CBD prevents too much sebum, and the anti-inflammatory effect prevents cytokine activities that trigger acne formation.

CBD is a Source of Natural Skincare

 According to JoshiPawar (2015), most cosmetic products in the market, today are a mixture of chemicals. Some even contain formaldehyde and heavy metals, making them toxic. CBD is extracted from organically grown and non-GMO hemp plants. The CBD undergoes third-party testing for elements like heavy metals before it's brought to the market. To make CBD products like CBD oil, the oils used there are also natural.

How to Use CBD for Skincare

CBD as a Topical

This is the best method of using CBD for your skin. The topical method involves applying CBD oil or cream to the affected area's skin. If you have acne or wrinkles, apply CBD oil to that area and massage it for the CBD to be absorbed. This method is very effective as the CBD does not go through a long process like entering the bloodstream first. The user also has control of dosage because you use it on a limited part. You can also use this method alongside other methods like ingestion for faster results.

Other Methods

Methods like ingestion, inhalation, and sublingual can help skincare because CBD gets into the bloodstream. The anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties will remove free radicals and toxins from the skin. Using these methods alongside the topical method will lead to faster results. 

Is CBD Legal

 McGregor et al. (2020) noted that CBD is legal in the USA and most European countries. In the USA, each state has different rules on CBD. Like in Texas, only CBD with 0.3% THC is legal; in California, CBD is legal, but in Idaho, CBD is illegal. In Europe some counties like Norway, CBD is legal for medicinal use; in countries like Armenia and Monaco, CBD is illegal. In most cases, CBD extracted from marijuana is illegal because of the high amount of THC. You can check your sates' laws on CBD before buying your preferred CBD product.

Conclusion

CBD oil is beneficial to the skin. It is an anti-aging cream because it controls sebum production, thus reducing acne formation. CBD oil has anti-inflammatory and antioxidants, which are essential to the skin. Most skin care products in the market may not be natural products like CBD oil, an all-natural product with no additives like chemical preservatives. You can equally use coconut oil, almond, olive, and jojoba oil for your skin. Taking CBD oil for skincare is simple; you can use it as a topical or ingest it. To benefit from CBD oil for skin, buy high-quality products only.

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Peyravian, N., Deo, S., Daunert, S., & Jimenez, J. J. (2022). The Anti-Inflammatory Effects Of Cannabidiol (CBD) On Acne. Journal Of Inflammation Research, 15, 2795