This how Marula oil helps your skin

Remember when argan oil came on the scene and blew your mind with its hydrating/anti-aging capabilities and then every beauty product you ever used contained it? Well, while argan oil isn't going anywhere, there's a new oil on the block that contains 60 percent more antioxidants than argan oil (bye, wrinkles and sun damage!) and is even more skin friendly. (Yes, even if you have acne.)

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With a natural makeup that comes close to the oils your own body creates, marula oil — harvested in South Africa from the nut inside the marula fruit — plays nicely with your skin, healing and hydrating it without clogging or irritating it. How? It contains a high amount of antioxidants and essential fatty acids like omegas-6 and -9, which do a ton: They protect your skin from environmental aggressors (sun, pollution, wind, etc.) that can cause premature aging, and they absorb deeper and more easily into your skin, since the molecules are much smaller than traditional hydrating oils. (Traditional, thicker oils will sit on top and just lock existing moisture in.)