Grapeseed oil contains several compounds that can be beneficial to skin, including Omega-6 fatty acids, linoleic acid, more vitamin E than olive oil, and potent antioxidants, all of which can help protect skin and fight inflammation.

This oil is a faint yellow in color and feels relatively light to the touch. It can be used on its own or as the basis of a variety of skin applications, such as the moisturizers, lip treatments, scrubs, and other clean beauty recipes included here.

Choose cold-pressed, organic grapeseed oil to get the most nutrients and to avoid pesticide residues.

Mixing a skin-beneficial oil with granulated sugar is a simple way to create a homemade facial or body scrub.

Mix all your ingredients in a glass jar (add a little more oil if you need to) and use right away.

If you want to use this as a body scrub, just double the recipe so you will have plenty on hand when you need it. Be sure to store your scrub in a cool spot.

A solid moisturizing bar is an easy way to make your homemade products portable. Since grapeseed oil is liquid at room temperature, you'll want to mix it with shea butter, which will get it to solidify into a bar.

Rub grapeseed oil on your lips for an instant lip-softener. Since grapeseed oil can be used for cooking, it's perfectly fine to ingest some, making it the ultimate nontoxic lip gloss.

Before your next at-home pedicure, add a tablespoon of grapeseed oil to warm water, along with a few drops of lavender, and soak feet for at least 5 minutes, or better yet, 10.

Then, pat your feet dry and rub them with a small amount of additional grapeseed oil if you like. This will moisturize and soften feet—and also help reduce foot odor.

Grapeseed oil is an ideal base for making your own facial cleanser. It's very low on the comedogenic scale (it's rated as a 1), which means it's less likely to clog pores and doesn't need to be mixed with another oil—it can be used directly as a cleanser on its own.

To oil-cleanse skin, simply apply a quarter-sized amount of oil to your dry skin, and rub it around gently, giving your skin a bit of a massage, for about one minute. Be sure to avoid the eye area. Remove oil with a warm (not hot) damp washcloth and pat dry.

Oil-cleansing works well for both dry and oily skin because the grapeseed oil bonds with and removes dirt and other oils that cause skin inflammation. For an additional cleansing boost, add a drop of tea tree oil to your grapeseed oil, or make a ready-to-use cleansing oil by adding 7-8 drops to 4 tablespoons of grapeseed oil and store in a glass pump container.

If you want to enrich your over-the-counter moisturizer for use at night or during cold or dry months, you could simply add a few drops of grapeseed oil to the usual amount of moisturizer you use.

Pump moisturizer into hands, add grapeseed oil, and mix it up between your palms before you apply it to your skin.

Serums are often very small bottles of oils with very large price tags. Grapeseed oil makes an ideal serum base as it is non-comedogenic, liquid at room temperature, and absorbs easily.

Mix with equal parts argan oil and a few drops of rosehip seed oil for a powerful, lightweight serum to apply after cleansing or before bed.

If you are suffering from sunburn, combining a teaspoon of grapeseed oil with a tablespoon of aloe vera can help calm and soothe.

Rub the two ingredients together between your palms and massage gently into your skin. The aloe vera will cool and moisturize and the grapeseed oil will help reduce redness.

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