Plum Oil for Skin: Sourcing, Benefits, and Use

Plum kernel oil is rich in vitamin E and oleic acid, supporting the skin's antioxidant defenses and moisture barrier. Love by Jade cold-presses its plum oil from a family farm in southwestern France, the same farm Jade has sourced from for five years.

What Plum Kernel Oil Actually Contains

Plum kernel oil is cold-pressed from the seeds of Prunus domestica, the same plum used in French Ente plum orchards. The oil is rich in oleic acid, which supports the skin's moisture barrier, along with vitamin E and phytosterols that provide antioxidant protection against everyday environmental stress. Cold-pressing, rather than heat or solvent extraction, keeps these compounds intact.

Where Love by Jade's Plum Oil Comes From

The plum oil in the Glow Face Serum with Plum & Prickly Pear comes from a family farm in southwestern France, the same farm Jade has sourced from for five years. It takes 60 to 90 plum kernels to cold-press a single bottle. The oil has a distinct, natural scent, closer to marzipan than a typical face oil, a sign of how little processing it undergoes between the orchard and the bottle.

What It Supports on Skin

The vitamin E and phytosterols in plum kernel oil help protect skin from the oxidative stress that contributes to a tired or uneven appearance, while its oleic acid content helps support the skin's moisture barrier. The oil absorbs quickly and sits light on skin, part of why it works as a finishing step rather than a heavy occlusive layer.

How It Fits Into the Glow Face Serum

Plum oil is one of four cold-pressed and CO2-extracted botanicals in the Glow Face Serum with Plum & Prickly Pear, alongside prickly pear seed oil from Tunisia, sea buckthorn CO2 from Ukraine, and rosehip CO2 from Bulgaria. Each ingredient was chosen for a specific role. The plum nourishes. The prickly pear refines. The sea buckthorn revives. The rosehip restores.