Pure Certified Emu Oil

Properties

• Also excellent for your pets to treat sores and minor irritations. Actually beneficial if swallowed!
  

Moisturizing

Anti-inflammatory

Non-comedogenic

Wound healing

Topical enhancer

Burn treatment

Skin thickening

Acne treatment

Wrinkles...

Emu oil is a completely safe, 100% natural emollient and moisturizer. Emu oil contains no steroids, hormones or harmful chemicals, and is well known for its normalizing abilities—it can slow down an over-performing body function or speed up one that is not performing well enough.

• Anti-bacterial
• A low irritant
• Anti-inflammatory *Great for acne!
• Non-comedogenic (will not clog pores)

Emu Oil Can

• Enhance the activity of skin cells to bring back a youthful glow
• Aid in the treatment of acne, eczema, psoriasis and other skin diseases
• Thicken and replenish skin to reduce wrinkles and signs of aging
• Help protect your skin from sunburn and provide sunburn relief
• Penetrate through and condition multiple skin layers
• Reduce swelling and muscle soreness
• Heal burns, wounds, injuries, minor cuts and scratches
• Enhance skin's growth activity to help prevent and reduce scarring
• Improve condition and rate of growth of hair and nails
• Soothe discomfort from sunburns, insect bites, and rashes
• Help skin to withstand colder climates
• Eliminate the itchy and flaky scalp associated with dandruff
• Moisturize cracked, dry skin
• Remove Eye Makeup!

Many Moisturizers and Emollients Damage Skin

From Skin and Allergy News, April 1997.

Many moisturizers and emollients sold by major skin care companies delay the healing of irritated and damaged skin and make the situation worse by inhibiting natural skin repair. According to Dr. Halker-Sorenson (Skandborg, Denmark), new computerized instruments have demonstrated that many popular moisturizers increase skin damage in methods similar to skin irritants.

Traditional skin moisturizers are formulated from a variety of low-cost oils and water-soluble chemicals that wet and loosen the skin's layer of outer protective proteins and also cover the skin with fats that impede water loss. This provides a brief moisturization of your skin but degrades the skin's protective properties against bacteria and viruses. Such moisturizing creams are a mixture of oil and water plus emulsifiers, stabilizers, preservatives and other chemicals. There is little evidence that such creams have any beneficial effect on skin.

Biological oils aid with skin moisturization without causing skin damage. Emu Oil is very similar in composition to human skin oils and acts to replenish skin lipids. In both oils, mono-unsaturated oleic acid is the most prevalent, then palmitic acid, followed by the essential fatty acid, linoleic acid. This may be the reason for the positive actions of emu oil on human skin. (Zemtsov et al 1996)

While lipid replenishment methods are still being developed by dermatological scientists, emu oil is already a very good natural oil for lipid replenishment. It comes from small ostrich-like bird. The emu (Doromiceius novae-hollandiae) is the world's second largest bird, only behind the ostrich. An adult bird stands 5 feet tall, weighs 120 pounds, and can run 30 miles an hour. The species may have existed for 80 million years, and survived when the dinosaurs perished 65 million years ago.

Healing the Skin

Australian aborigines discovered the benefits of emu oil many thousands of years ago and used its helpful properties on damaged and sunburned skin In more recent work, a study at Texas Tech reported that topically-applied emu oil reduces burn pain as effectively as 600 milligrams of Ibuprofen taken 3 times daily.

• Emu Oil is a healthy, complex, topical or ingestible oil, which contains a natural anti-inflammatory and is trans-dermal. In addition to reducing swelling and stiffness in joints, it reduces bruising and muscle pain. Professional sports trainers and players recognize the benefits of emu oil.

Politis and Dmytrowich (1998) found that if emu oil was applied immediately after a wounding injury, it delayed healing. However, if applied 2 days after injury, it then aided the healing process. So for skin repair, first use copper-peptides, then later start using the emu oil.

Skin researchers at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston reported that emu oil at up to 100 % concentration in lotions to be non allergenic, non-comedogenic, have low irritation potential, and to be bacteriostatic.

Emu oil works better than other natural oils for several reasons:

1. Emu oil is almost 100% triglyceride lipid. Triglycerids (a type of fatty compound) are abundant in human skin lipids, meaning that the composition of fatty acids in human skin is very similar to that of emu oil. This makes the absorption of emu oil into human skin faster and more effective.
2. It is high in oleic acid, which increases its ability to carry compounds through the skin.
3. It does not contain phospholipids, which make absorption more difficult. This absence of phospholipids makes emu oil highly penetrating and allows it to absorb through the skin more easily.

Who says that Emu oil works?

We know that Emu oil works in numerous ways, and so far the United States Government has issued patents on Emu oil for the following properties. Several more are in the works!

• Prevents or reduces severity of nosebleeds when applied to the nasal passages
• Helps prevent scarring if applied to a recent cut or burn
• Aids in erasing or diminishing stretch marks and other skin blemishes

Acne, eczema, psoriasis and dandruff

Acne sufferers, do not hesitate to use this as a daily moisturizer! It is wonderful for helping to control acne! It will also help to reduce the inflammation of any blemishes you already have.

Emu oil acts as an anti-inflammatory, reducing the irritation and itchiness commonly caused by acne and eczema lesions, as well as other skin diseases. The anti-bacterial agent naturally found in emu oil, when combined with proper skin care, will help to decrease the chances of infection and blemishes. Use it along with your topical blemish applications for quicker results! Emu oil promotes healing and helps to prevent scarring.

Acne and eczema often affect the hairline as well, so in addition to using a gentle facial cleanser containing emu oil, add a few drops to your shampoo and/or conditioner!

Diminish Wrinkles and Other Signs of Aging?

Emu Oil is a natural emollient. Emu oil helps combat the effects of the aging process. Research has shown emu oil can thicken the skin, which reduces the appearance of aging.

It has been found that the application of emu oil to the skin thickens the tissue by as much as 14%. Age spots and wrinkles become nearly unnoticeable, and skin takes on a more youthful appearance. Emu oil is highly penetrating, bringing moisture deep into the skin, healing dryness, cracking and itchiness. Emu oil also has natural sun-protection properties and can be an important ingredient in sunscreen, as well an important part of sunburn treatment. Wearing a sunscreen (with or without emu oil) is an important step in preventing wrinkles and skin damage caused by sun exposure.

How Can I Tell If Emu Oil is of High Quality?

100% pure emu oil is a totally unique natural product. For best quality choose oil that is cream to light yellow in color, odorless, and tasteless or very bland. A dark yellow, red or brown tint indicates a low quality product or a poor refining process.

What are the Different Grades of Emu Oil?

The American Emu Association defines three grades of emu oil: crude, once refined and fully refined. Emu oil for human use should be "fully refined," and not just filtered or refined. Our 100% Emu oil is fully refined and can be used topically and internally. Best if used within 2 years of the date of purchase.

How Do I Use the Emu oil?

Massage a few drops into the desired area (a little goes a long way!). Absorbs quickly and leaves no greasy feeling.

For facial skin care-Emu oil can be added as a top layer to our copper and glycolic acid products to enhance their absorption*. It can also be used as a daily moisturizer by smoothing a few drops over the entire face and neck area.

For irritations- Apply several times daily in the beginning, then as needed. Due to emu oil's transdermal properties it can increase the benefits of other products used simultaneously by bringing them into the epidermal layer of skin.

Because of emu oil's strong transdermal properties, please be careful what you mix emu oil with! Never apply emu oil during a chemical peel!