While we might celebrate National Sunflower Day once a year, we’ve found that the most significant trend in beauty to celebrate all year long begins with your skin. Getting to the root of good makeup starts with our plant-powered ingredients at Well People — sunflower oil and wax are among them. This unique oil is extracted from the flower’s edible seeds and used to nourish and hydrate the skin. Essential fatty acids can be found in this oil and are used in many beauty products. Our promise since day one has been that our Well People Clean makeup will always stay free from parabens, phthalates, sulfates, synthetic fragrance, petrolatum, talc, as well as thousands of other potentially toxic ingredients.

What is Sunflower Oil and Wax?

Sunflower seed oil is derived from the widely known common sunflower, Helianthus annuus. The oil’s texture is light, and it contains a high level of vitamin E, which moisturizes the skin. This remarkable oil is best known for hydrating and soothing the skin. Linoleic acid is a fatty acid found in sunflower oil that is known to help the skin's natural barrier for a healthy-looking complexion.

Sunflower wax is a natural, plant-based wax that can be obtained from the coating of sunflower seeds used in makeup and skincare products. Adding sunflower wax to beauty products provides a smooth, non-greasy texture to many of your favorite cosmetic products, such as lipsticks, brow gels, balms, creams, and many more. This clean and natural wax helps to enhance formulations through thickening and stabilizing properties, allowing for a better overall product performance.

What are the Benefits of Sunflower for Skin?

Suppose you haven’t been convinced yet that sunflowers offer numerous benefits to the skin through sunflower seed oil and sunflower wax. Here are a few extra reasons why we love this plant-powered ingredient so much!

1. Skin Nourishment: Sunflower seed oil can help improve and enhance the overall nourishment of your skin through its high concentration of essential fatty acids, like linoleic acid, which deeply moisturizes and nourishes the skin.
2. Soothing Properties: Both properties contain high vitamin E content, which can help reduce inflammation. Sunflower seed oil and wax soothe irritated skin and aid in the healing process.
3. Antioxidant: Sunflower seed oil provides significant antioxidant benefits, such as helping defend against environmental aggressors.
4. Skin Barrier: Sunflower seed oil's fatty acids retain moisture, helping support the skin’s natural barrier and keeping it soft.
5. Smooth Application: Using a soft, non-greasy plant-based wax like sunflower wax enhances the look and feel of makeup application.
6. Clean Plant-Powered Ingredient: Our favorite benefit is that sunflower seed oil and sunflower wax are natural and meet our standard of clean ingredients that lean into our commitment to plant-powered formulas.

Help Support Skin’s Natural Moisture Barrier

If you do one thing for your skin, it should be to wear clean ingredients that support your skin’s natural moisture barrier. Knowing how essential it is to understand better the products you put onto your skin is so vital that we set out to make a collection of beauty products you would want to use daily. Products that don’t leave a greasy finish, hydrate the skin, wear well, and look good wherever you are. When first creating our line of beauty, we admittedly became ingredient obsessed with sunflower seed oil being an exceptional one. This natural oil helps to maintain hydration within the skin. Linoleic acid, a fatty acid found in sunflower seed oil, is known to play a massive role in supporting the skin’s barrier by locking in moisture, resulting in healthier-looking skin. The high concentration content from this fatty acid directly combats dull skin, allowing for a supple appearance. You can thank us later for your “your skin looks so good” glow.

Softer and Smoother Skin

We wanted the experience of using our makeup to be nourishing, hydrating, and moisturizing, so we did just that and made it easy to find what you need to keep your skin smooth and soft. There’s no room in your beauty routine for products and ingredients that simply don’t work. Ingredients are always top of mind for us, which is why we lean on natural, plant-powered ingredients that are EWG VERIFIED and esthetician-approved.

If you’re looking for softer and smoother skin, sunflower wax is an incredible natural ingredient to achieve this. Its skin-friendly properties make this plant-based ingredient a popular one. It’s best known and loved for locking in moisture, creating a protective barrier on the skin, and helping to prevent dryness. Sunflower wax’s texture is non-greasy and absorbs well into the skin, resulting in skin that feels soft and smooth to the touch.

Antioxidant Properties

Vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps defend against environmental stressors. This kind of impactful stress on the skin can cause aging. Both sunflower seed oil and sunflower wax are rich in vitamin E, and with the regular use of these ingredients, vitamin E can help to defend against free radicals, molecules that are known to a accelerate aging. We intentionally incorporate these protective ingredients in our makeup to help defend against environmental stressors by nourishing and maintaining moisture in the skin. Caring for your skin is just as important as your makeup routine.

What Well People Products Include Sunflower

Now that you’re an expert on the benefits of sunflower seed oil and sunflower wax, you can look for beauty and skincare products that contain these moisturizing and soothing plant-powered ingredients. We set out to make nourishing beauty products that leave your skin feeling supple without the greasy residue or drying effects of some formulations. That’s why we lean on natural and plant-based ingredients in our products. If you’re looking to benefit from sunflower seed oil, you can find this powerful ingredient in several of our best sellers: Supernatural Stick Multi-Use Blush, Highlighter, Bronzer, and Fresh Lines Liquid Eyeliner. Additionally, if you want to make two easy, natural beauty swaps that are formulated with sunflower wax, start with our Expressionist Brow Gel.