I am sure you already heard a lot of people talking about using sandalwood for skin care treatment. Even you can easily found in many commercial skins cares product which using sandalwood extract for their product.
Sandalwood extract are obtain from Santalum Tree, which a member of the Santalaceae family, the tree can grow almost 50 feet and not quite easy to propagate because the sandalwood tree are living in dry and rocky environments, even so there is a few country which already able to cultivate it like in Indonesia and in Indonesia Sandalwood tree are called Angsana tree, the older the tree the more sandalwood extract can be obtained and the process to extract sandalwood oil are not easy, there are required large amount of time and energy to gain the sandalwood oil, that’s why the price are getting higher.
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People in western know if sandalwood oil it has a sweet, warm, rich and woody characteristic people in western are using it as a fragrance in many product like a perfume, aftershaves and other products.
For some people who have acne scar or an old scar from injuries which looking a natural solution for scar treatment has founded if sandalwood extract are the best answer for fading away the scar, it has a very long history in skin treatment in human history mainly in several country like Indonesia, Australia, India and other. Sandalwood is popular for external and internal treatment because it has the antiseptic and anti inflammatory properties,
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Pure sandalwood oil can be used to minimized the appearances of scar from chicken pox, it is very important to ask your doctor first before start to using sandalwood oil it, to begin using sandalwood you can mix it first with other base oil like almond oil before apply it to reduced skin irritation or skin allergic.
After that you can directly applied it with cotton ball, or directly with your finger. Continue to apply it for daily until the scars fade away.
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Sandalwood powder can be used also for acne treatment, it is recommended to make a paste from it first, there is many ways to make a sandalwood paste for acne treatment you can mix sandalwood powder and rosewater, mix sandalwood with goat milk, mix sandalwood with cucumber juice or mix sandalwood and lime juice, the basic to mix it are basically same by pour those oil or another ingredients little by little in 2 part of sandalwood powder and mix it thoroughly until it became a paste and gently applied it to acne scar or using it as a facial masker and leave it for several hours, some people even leave it overnight to maximized the result, keep repeating it for a few next days until the scars are fade away, and don’t forget to consult with your doctor first if you want to start using sandalwood extract for scar treatment.
