Product Description
Pure tamanu oil – natural care for healthy, smooth, blemish-free skin.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3891 in Beauty
- Size: 1 oz
- Brand: Life-Flo
- Model: LA-AM-KO
- Published on: 2010-08-04
- Ingredients: 100% Pure and organic tamanu oil (calophyllum tacamahaca seed oil).
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 4.44" h x 1.50" w x 1.50" l, .20 pounds
Features
- 100% pure organic Tamanu oil for skin rejuvenation
- Traditionally used by Pacific Islanders for its skin therapeutic properties and ability to promote healthy skin renewal
- Pure Tamanu Oil, from the South Pacific island Tamanu tree
Most helpful customer reviews
36 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
So long rosacea & redness
By Chigirl
Diet plays a major role in controlling or eliminating rosacea symptoms, but topicals can also be extremely helpful. I know the frustration and disappointment of having tried so many different products that have worked for others, but not for me.
Over the past 20 years, I have tried numerous natural topical products (I'm in my early 40's) and am excited to share that Tamanu Oil is what is working amazing for me - nothing else has ever come close. I have been using it at night for 2 weeks and any redness and irritation I used to have is going away. My skin is much less reactive as well. After I wash my face, I apply the tamanu while my face is still wet and I rub it in very well. I have read that tamanu can eliminate facial spider veins as well, but obviously it is much too soon to comment on that. I purchased this Life-flo Tamanu oil at a local Vitamin Shoppe, but will reorder from Amazon since the price is cheaper. :)
I have tried and still use Ultra Clear Emu oil during the day - it's a great biological oil that gives me moisture without looking greasy or making me breakout. But it's the tamanu that is healing my skin. I also tried Seabuckthorn oil, but I disliked the smell (the tamanu oil doesn't bother me at all) and it seemed to dry and irritate my skin as well.
Hope this helps.
46 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
This Stuff HEALS!
By Araminta
I've been trying out various oils for the skin: manuka oil(great for acne), argan oil (anti-aging and moisturizing), rosehip oil (anti-aging and moisturizing) and now this one, tamanu oil by Life-flo. Whereas the others are a thinner consistency and are excellent for what their respective purposes are, this one is very thick and quite pungent - very strong nutty scent. It does not bother me, but I only use it on my face at night because otherwise I can smell it all through the day! It's purported use is for anti-aging and moisturizing and it is wonderful for that; I like to mix it with my other oils for a potent elixir. A few drops on the hands beneath my regular hand cream leaves them moisturized for hours. All this is well and good, but there is a bonus benefit that I am very pleased about. Earlier this week, I awoke with the skin beneath one of my eyes very sore, as if I were getting a stye. Both eyes were swollen from allergies and felt miserable all day; gritty and relentlessly itching. I haven't worn eye makeup all week (and may never again). I read about some of the uses for tamanu oil and found one comment by a person who said that he used it around his eyes to soothe them. So...I tried it under my eyes at night in lieu of the argan and rosehip oils. When I woke the next morning, most of the soreness was gone and my eyes looked brighter than they had in weeks. The oil is so thick that it did not travel up into my eyes, instead soothing and moisturizing the area underneath. Now several days later, the soreness is completely gone, my eyes still look bright and my skin looks great. So I use it as daytime undereye moisturizer as well, scent be damned. It takes so very little of it to be effective that I think this bottle will last a long time. I also had an abrasion on the bridge of my nose from my glasses and in two nights' applications of this oil, it has completely cleared up. I am a lifetime fan.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Still Testing for scar removal
By Sam Aggarwal
I got this bottle a couple of days ago. It is a small 30 ml bottle about the size of a finger. Here are a few Tamanu Oil Pointers I have gathered in a week and a half:
Tamanu Oil is greasy when applied but gets absorbed nicely in 3-4 hours or over night.
Tamanu Oil clears/brightens the skin and kills all pimples and skin bumps. It also gets rid of all allergic skin redness.
Tamanu Oil gets rid of the scars by skin-flaking method. Scars exists as hyper-pigmentation on the various layers of skin. Keep brushing the flakes (gently) off your skin to get rid of scars soon.
Tamanu Oil should be applied on a clean skin. So wash your skin gently before every application.
Tamanu oil is greasy when applied but it doesn't soften the skin even after it has been fully absorbed into the skin. For softness mix it with your favorite cream (Only one cream at a time: night cream at night time and water based moisturizer in the morning time)
Effects of Tamanu oil are not visible during or just after application. They are visible after 3-4 hours or overnight.
Full Review:
When I saw Tamanu oil, it looked and smelled just like mustard oil. Mustard oil is a very commonly used in Indian (East) household for hair & body massage, cooking, darkening the color-effects of henna designs/tattoos on palms and protecting food from germs. Mustard Oil is a strong oil and I have had a pretty bad reaction on my facial skin. So, I was apprehensive about applying Tamanu oil on my facial skin. But thanks to all the reviews on Amazon as well as on other portals online, I mustered strength to apply it on face. Here is what I think about Tamanu oil:
1st time application:
It is very neutral on my skin. So far no adverse reaction has happened. However, I don't agree with the claims that Tamanu oil doesn't leave any residue on skin after application or that it is a dry oil. It is very much like a thick oil it is supposed to be. I applied a very little amount, 3-4 drops, on my entire face and neck but my skin (facial, neck's and hands') still looks and feels greasy even after massaging oil into it. Maybe I need to use less of it so it doesn't leave any greasy feel or I should apply it at night time. I don't have any problem with its odor, as I have grown up in a country where everybody loves mustard oil (the similar looking and smelling oil).
Update 2nd day of application:
Also it is a green oil and when I applied on my brown skin, I got a tone darker skin as a result. Good news is, Tamanu oil didn't cause any breakage. But, it didn't prevent the already present ultra small pimples and minute bumps on skin from dying out. I applied it on my lips. It doesn't cure chapped lips completely but it has made me stop gorging on my lip balm frequently. I will give it 3 stars for not causing breakage even though it is greasy in nature.
3rd Day Result:
Wow! My skin looks radiant. I applied it last night and slept. The dark oil on my skin vanished and my complexion looks so clear and bright! No redness on my face at all! The small pimples and bumps didn't grow into full ones!
However, the old scars are still present. Hope they will eventually vanish. Also my skin is flaking, hopefully, the flaking of skin is only to get rid of dead-skin-scars. My skin isn't soft though. I am still clueless how to regain softness of the face.
4th/5th/6th Day(s) to 1.5 weeks Review:
I am getting used to seeing a brightly lit face in the morning in the white (6500k) light of mine. Well white light unlike the soft white/yellow light tells me the reality of my face.
Face is soft and clean (finally discovered how to make the skin soft with tamanu oil. Just mix tamanu oil with some non greasy-cream. Tamanu oil is greasy enough, since it doesn't cause any breakage, it is trusted greasy. Mixing it with greasy pimple-causing cream may cause skin to break. Anyway, my nivea white cream goes well with it). The small pimples have an arrested development and the bumps are gone. However, scars are still at large and the skin-flaking is there. I give this great oil 4 stars.
I am planning on applying it on my skin regularly for a couple of weeks to see if the light and small scars on my face disappear. Since it is a natural product, it may take its own time to heal the skin properly. You cannot expect magic. Will update this review accordingly. Hopefully this will help everybody.
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